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LOUISIANA Ole Earl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Ole Earl | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

...prove himself a better man, he merely proved himself a wilder one. In his role as a man of the people, he casually cleaned between his toes at press conferences. As a political fighter, he once sank his teeth into an opponent's throat. He billed himself as "Ole Earl," and. if he never became the national figure that Huey unquestionably was, he nonetheless kept Louisiana tightly under his thumb. That is, until recently, when he determined to gimmick his way around the Louisiana prohibition against a second consecutive gubernatorial term by resigning and letting his complaisant Lieutenant Governor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Ole Earl | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

...Result: the Howard Payne Dream will be sole U.S. representative at Bristol's prestigious International Festival of University Theater, and for nine weeks will get top billing at professional theaters in Coventry, Northampton, Cambridge, and Dundee, Scotland. If this is the way to meet up with ole Shakespeare, the students say, "we feel raht at home doin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Free Will | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

...explosive goods on him in a Liverpool slum tenement. At Borstal, one of the "screws" (warders) showed a keen sense of British affection for unsuccessful revolutionaries. Said he to the chubby would-be martyr: "Now, Guy Fawkes, lead on to the dungeons . . . You've got an 'ole suite of rooms to yourself . . . And I bet you ain't satisfied . . . That's the Irish, all over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old School Noose | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

Bill Wood has captured what he refers to as a "clean cut" following as a result of his Balladeers show on WHRB. (Where it not for the button-down collar on his brightly blue shirt he could have passed for a fugitive from Grand Ole Opry.) Miss Baez with her long black hair and soft brown eyes has a following more prone to beards and souls and such. But both singers share a professional stage presence and a delightful sense of humor. They combined to present an evening of folksongs "legitimate and illegitimate" that was always enjoyable and oftimes moving...

Author: By Robert H. Sand, | Title: Folkways | 3/3/1959 | See Source »

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