Word: maestri
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...Huey's favorite barbershop and who handled the swag and kept no records; Abe Shushan, the dry-goods dealer who became president of the Levee Board; James Monroe ("Doc") Smith, president of the university; and big George Caldwell, superintendent of buildings at L.S.U. There were others, like Robert Maestri (rhymes with pastry), the conservation commissioner who later became New Orleans' mayor. And there was Earl, Huey's less talented brother. "I ain't like Huey," Earl admitted. "I gotta go slower...
...unhappy veteran had swiped a sexy nude from an underground tunnel in Amberg, Germany. The signature, "Mich. Ang. Maestri" looked good to him until he learned last week that his original masterpiece by Michelangelo was really a colored reproduction done 200 years later...
Political prophets in gay, gambling New Orleans always said the Independent Democrats would never elect a mayor until it snowed on election day. Last week, on election day, snow sifted over startled voters and Independent deLesseps Story Morrison beat Mayor Robert Sidney Maestri, the last office-holding henchman of the late Huey ("Lion in the Street") Long...
Among his other political assets, Chep Morrison has a pretty 24-year-old wife, a handsome baby son. Although elected as a reform candidate by voters tired of the blatant inefficiency of the Maestri machine, he is not a reformer. ("New Orleans is no town for a Sunday blue law.") His chief ambition as mayor: to help New Orleans outstrip Miami as "the gateway to Latin America...
...Sunshine, Nobody's Darlin' but Mine, and It Makes No Difference Now. The losers were egg-bald 67-year-old Lewis L. Morgan, longtime public chairwarmer in the state's pre-reform days, and other "old regulars" of New Orleans Mayor Robert S. Maestri's machine. Tenor Davis, supported by Governor Sam Houston (''Sweet-Smellin' Sam") Jones, gave the Longsters even a worse walloping than Jones had given them in 1940-a 37,000 vote majority...