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...Louisiana, swaggering, shifty-eyed Earl Kemp Long has hardly been able to spit, scratch or take off his shoes without rousing a disconcerting ghost. During his 3½ months in office the legend of his brother Huey has dominated and overshadowed him almost as thoroughly as the live Kingfish did during the noisy years of the Great Louisiana Hayride...
...second Louisiana Hayride hit the road last week. Earl Long picked up Brother Huey's bullwhip and laid it manfully across the backs of his submissive legislators. In the driver's seat with him was the Kingfish's 29-year-old son, Russell. Governor Earl and nephew Russell were fixing to make hay just like Huey used to make...
Back in his clinic last week after the carnival, Dr. Ochsner quipped: "Once a King, but never a Kingfish." He referred to his ousting from Charity Hospital by Huey Long (TIME, Oct. 6, 1930) because he refused to make a political appointment. Known as "The Chief" to his colleagues and "The Great White Father" to his students, Ochsner sometimes thinks that he would like to be fired again: it might give him time to do more research...
...late Huey's brother sounded almost as good as the Kingfish himself. What was more, Huey's 29-year-old son Russell was stumping the state for Uncle Earl, and Russell looked just like the Kingfish, right down to his curly hair, pudgy nose and slack chin. It was like old times...
...Senate. He had no fear of political consequences; in later years he did not even campaign for office. There was dignity and gallantry about the homely little man. Sometimes, carried away by lost causes, he attacked his adversaries physically. Once he plunged at Huey Long -because the Kingfish had taken the liberty of calling him by his first name...