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Carters v. Kingfish. Hodding Carter never expected any medals for being a fighting Southern liberal editor. Says he: "You don't have to be brave any more." But more than once, he and his wife have been. Just after he and pretty Betty Werlein were married, Carter was fired (for insubordination) from his $50-a-week...
...year after the Kingfish was killed, the Carters sold out their Louisiana paper, moved to Greenville. As a kind of personal protest against Munich, Editor Carter enlisted in the National Guard. He lost the sight of his right eye in a training-camp exercise in Florida (he walked into a palmetto...
...boat churns back to dock about 5 p.m., flying a white flag from an outrigger, denoting that a sailfish has been landed. The first shore stop is usually Pflueger's taxidermist, whose charge for mounting sailfish is up from $10 to $12 a foot. The small-fry albacore, kingfish, bonito, dolphin and snappers (averaging from 6 to 12 Ibs.) are mostly extra gravy for the skipper-to sell, filleted...
...hard life of a Point plebe did next to nothing to Doc's impish, hillbillyish charm. He still managed to have fun. When he laughed, his mouth spread as wide as an oven door. He had a drawl that could pass for Amos & Andy's Kingfish, and an easy line of chatter about his important "social contacts...
Married. Palmer Reid Long, 21, A.A.F. cadet and younger son of Louisiana's late "Kingfish," Huey P. Long; and pretty, blonde Louene Dance, 20; in Los Angeles...