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...weakness," confessed Earl Kemp Long some time ago, "is that I spout off too much. But if I ever closed this mouth, God help Uncle Earl." Last week, only nine days after he won the Democratic primary nomination (and thus the election) for Congress from his home district, contentious Ole Earl Long, 65, three-time Governor of Louisiana, uneasy heir to the political fortunes of his rabble-rousing dictator brother Huey, said his last. Bedded in an Alexandria hospital, his body ravaged by a weak heart and his mind deteriorated, he gulped a cup of coffee, turned over...
...Earl Long's fate to live and strive in Huey's shadow. It was a striving founded on Earl's passionate conviction that he was twice the man Huey was-and, ironically, he was, save for the vital inability to match Huey's inner fire, his failure to plumb the imagination of Louisianians with Huey's black magic...
Piracy & Patronage. Earl had a sharp political instinct and, unlike Huey, the courage of a bull. He fought Huey's childhood battles for him, and later after he followed Huey from their Winnfield homestead as a traveling salesman, lawyer and political guerrilla, he fought some of his older brother's political battles for him too (once Earl nearly chewed off the finger of an opponent, another time lunged at a man and bit him in the throat). Yet, even at the peak of Huey's power, Earl was still in the shadow, forbidden by the Kingfish...
Curtain Lines. The mayor and the aldermen sided with Earl. He himself scuffled his cowboy boots in the dust, spat through tobacco-stained teeth and stayed on the job. So far he has only collected $9 in fines, but he has no intention of quitting his flashlight-and-pistol technique, or his job. "They threatened to kill me Saturday night," he drawls. "At least three times they've tried to run me over when I was on foot. I'll tell you, the only way I'm going to leave is if the town fires...
...Civil War. Nothing the author finds suggests that the Millinder clan is worth the trouble. After Julius, the stock began to go to seed. One granddaughter marries a French prince-but not for love. A grandson is cuckolded, a nephew turns embezzler, a granddaughter settles down with an English earl whose major talent is a firm grasp for ladies' behinds...