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...York City, a concentrator in Chemistry; Richard E. Rubenstein, of Adams House and Woodmere, N.Y., in History and Literature; Robert H. Socolow, of Kirkland House and New York City, a concentrator in Physics; William W. Sihler, of Lowell House and Norfolk, Va., a Government concentrator, and Sidney L. Shushan, of Lowell House and New Orleans, La., a concentrator in History...
Three faculty judges have named Jacob H. Tulchin '59 as winner of the Ferguson Prize for the best essay submitted in a sophomore history tutorial. Sidney L. Shushan '59 won second place...
...associates: former Governor Richard W. Leche (rhymes with flesh), who went to jail in 1941 for mail fraud; Robert S. Maestri, mayor of a graft-ridden New Orleans for ten years, until ousted by a reform candidate in 1946; George Reyer, Maestri's police superintendent; and Abe L. Shushan, former president of the levee board, who also went to jail in 1941 for mail fraud. Earl began to reminisce to the boys in the room about their late leader...
...Leche, a fat and jolly man, built himself a mansion on the exclusive St. Tammany "Gold Coast." George Caldwell, an even fatter man, who was construction supervisor for the burgeoning L.S.U. campus, built an even better one-its bathroom boasted 14-karat gold fixtures. Not to be outdone, Abe Shushan, president of the New Orleans Levee Board, built a mansion...
...only one man. Jesus Christ picked twelve, and one of 'em was a son-of-a-gun." Then he just hung on-like a sailor lashed to the mast-while gales of scandal blew around his ears. Leche went to prison. So did Doc Smith, George Caldwell, Abe Shushan, and Huey's Campaign Treasurer Seymour Weiss. Monte Hart, a favored contractor, blew out his brains...