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...able, aggressive New Orleans lawyer, Frank Ellis, 54, came to Washington with a reputation for getting things done. Back in Louisiana, he had masterminded the financing of the 24-mile Lake Pontchartrain Causeway. He was a leading mover and shaker in the construction of New Orleans' Moisant International Airport, and, as a fortissimo music lover as well as civic leader, he helped spark a fund-raising drive that saved the New Orleans Opera. He earned his claim to a job in the new Administration by belligerently and successfully managing Kennedy's Louisiana campaign last year, in the teeth...
...physican, Mitchell began sailing at the age of eight on Lake Pontchartrain outside his home town of New Orleans and grew up with a tiller in his hand. After a restless year at Ohio's Miami University, Mitchell went to New York, served a hitch as an underwear salesman at Macy's before heading for Florida and odd jobs around the Caribbean. Married in 1939 to Elizabeth Myers, wealthy daughter of the founder of Ohio's Myers Pump Co., Mitchell lives on a 30-acre estate with a half-mile of waterfront on Sharps Point outside Annapolis...
...need-other thousands are blazing a trail in fast-growing Negro suburbia. Blooming on the outskirts of dozens of cities are hundreds of new communities such as Park Terrace: Crestwood Forest (150 homes, $12,000-$60,000) near Atlanta; Lakeview Gardens (614 homes, $9,000-$19,000) near Memphis; Pontchartrain Park (725 homes, $14,30O-$25,-ooo) near New Orleans; Dunbar Estates' Westbury Houses (200 homes, $14,000-$20,000) in Long Island; University Park (400 homes, $11,000-$15,000) near Charlotte, N.C.; integrated (53% white, 47% Negro) Concord Park (139 homes, $12,700-$14,350) near Philadelphia...
...Galveston for treatment of schizophrenia (TIME. June 15). It had been an eventful eight days since Long forced his release from an insane asylum, made a travesty of Louisiana's mental-health laws, and reinstated himself as Governor in a motel room near the shores of Lake Pontchartrain. Milestones in the hectic trail between the Pine Manor Motel and the Governor's mansion: ¶ With his bony feet sticking out of the sheet that covered his body, Ole Earl held a press conference from his motel bed, told reporters why his frightened wife, Blanche, was seeking a divorce...
...right off. Even when Florabelle looked him full in the face and he saw that she only had one good eye, he didn't mind. He lifted her in his arms and put her in his buggy and drove her out for a ride. Parked out beside Lake Pontchartrain, he asked her to marry him. She winced; then, without saying anything, she threw aside the quilt that had covered her lower half. From the waist down, she was a fish. She dived into the lake and swam...