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LOUISIANA A Dynasty Ends When Louisiana's Governor Earl Long got to thinking about the end of his term this year, he mulled over some ideas for carrying on the Long dynasty. Louisiana law bars a governor from succeeding himself, so why not have a constitutional convention and extend all officeholders' terms for two years? The citizens seemed to object to that, so Earl thought of another arrangement: he would run for lieutenant governor with a dummy candidate for governor; then the dummy would resign after a couple of days in office, and Earl would step back...
Without Eisenhower the Republicans will have a lot of trouble winning. Cherington said, and they would be more likely to win with Earl Warren or "a person like Henry Cabot Lodge...
Baptists were pleased last week to learn (from the Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs) that four candidates (or presumed candidates) for the presidency are Baptists-Harry Truman, Estes Kefauver, Harold Stassen and Oklahoma's Senator Robert Kerr. The committee also concluded that California's Earl Warren is at least a half-Baptist; he was raised a Methodist, but usually attends the Baptist church of his wife and daughters...
...printed a letter from a Londoner who had the itch to gamble: "May I . . . ask if you can recommend to me the names of three or four reliable, honest political bookmakers in New York (or elsewhere in the U.S.A.) who might be willing to quote me odds on Governor Earl Warren (California) as President. As I may be interested in placing a fairly sizable bet on Governor Warren's chances (if the odds were proper), it would be imperative that I be dealing with a man of unquestioned integrity and with adequate funds at his disposal...
...World War II when his R.A.F. flying boat crashed in Scotland. They are: Edward, now Duke of Kent, Michael (whose godfather was Franklin D. Roosevelt) and Alexandra. Last of all in direct succession is George VI's only sister, the Princess Royal, and her family: George, seventh Earl of Harewood (rhymes with Gar Wood), sometime opera critic for the left-wing New Statesman and married to a Viennese pianist, their year-old son, and his younger brother, the Hon. Gerald Lascelles (rhymes with tassels), who once shocked the court by falling in love with a bonny barmaid, reduced...