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...delight. 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: The Winnfield Frog | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: The Winnfield Frog | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

...land is ours again," screamed Nationalist students at Pretoria and Stellenbosch universities. "We're boss now," crowed three young toughs in Prime Minister Daniel Malan's own Piquetberg; they stormed into Grocer Abe Ginsberg's Main Street store and helped themselves to cheese. "In future we'll take what we want without paying." In rural Burghersdorp a pro-Malan voter had got so excited over the election returns on his radio that he ran out firing his rifle in the air, accidentally shot down his antenna. A Smuts supporter kicked his radio to smithereens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: To Relieve the People | 6/28/1948 | See Source »

Representing the undergraduate body at the meeting were Council President William D. Weeks '49 and Abe Schestopol...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alumni Mob Philly... | 5/18/1948 | See Source »

Bluestone presented a selection from Richard Wright's "Native Son," in which Mr. Max attacks the cruelty of the white race which has forced Thomas into committing a murder. Sparer took excerpts from the Douglas speech in the Lincoln-Douglas Debate from Robert Sherwood's play "Abe Lincoln in Illinois." Lincoln's speech in the debate was given by MacNutt, who followed Sparer on the stage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 5 Orators Win Boylston Finals | 3/24/1948 | See Source »

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