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Died. James A. (Jimmie) Noe, 82, protégé of Huey Long and the tipster behind the investigation that led to the 1939 scandal known as the Louisiana Hayride; of heart disease; in Houston. Appointed Lieutenant Governor of the Pelican State by Long in 1935, he succeeded to the Governor's office the next year, following the death of a Long crony, O.K. Allen. Noe served as Governor for only four months, choosing not to run in the 1936 election. He later turned against the winner, Richard Leche, another Long disciple. Congressman F. Edward Hebert...
Hancock's wealth paid for the enthusiasm of the waterfront bravos who rallied round the Rebel leaders. On one occasion, he provided ? 1,000 for the care and feeding of the mob. In 1766 Hancock won a seat in the state legislature as the protégé of Samuel Adams, who had been elected the previous year (Otis had been there since 1761). From then on, his political star kept rising...
...World War II the young Berlinguer became the secretary of Sassari's Young Communist League, was arrested for taking part in food riots and freed after a hundred days in jail. He soon moved to Rome to work in the party's headquarters there and became a protégé of Togliatti. By the age of 23, Berlinguer had won a seat on the party's central committee and been tabbed as a comer; after that, he gradually worked his way to the top until he succeeded Togliatti's successor, the aging and ill Luigi...
...rate as the favorite in the 70-meter jumping competition. Raised in his father's pub halfway up an alp, Toni's budding alpine career was nipped at age twelve by officials who considered him too puny. He enrolled at a state-run skiing school, becoming a protégé of Jumping Coach Baldur Preiml...
There are crucial decision to be made, take the beltways around Baltimore and Washington, or leave the world of Interstate unreality and drive through. Baltimore is a nice, old, evocative prot city where the best thing to do is eat crabs, either by the docks or a Paolino's in Highlandtown. Washington is fun to drive through at night because all the landmarks, which actually exist, are all lit up, no doubt at great expense to the taxpayers...