Word: louisianians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. The Most Rev. Jules Benjamin Jeanmard, 77, first Louisianian to become a Roman Catholic bishop (1918). who took a solid pro-integration stand in November 1955 by excommunicating two women in his Lafayette. La. diocese for assaulting a woman teacher of an integrated catechism class, lifted the ban a week later when they apologized; after making a final request that his body lie in state for one day at a Lafayette Negro church; in Lake Charles...
...when 60-year-old Earl Long hasn't been at it. He has vilified the mildest of opponents, ruthlessly axed holdover appointees from other administrations, defied legislative rules and traditions by roaming the floors of both houses at will. Long's goals, as many a despondent Louisianian sees them: 1) a tax-and-spend policy to dwarf the fondest dreams of the late Brother Huey, even at the risk of bankrupting the state, and 2) a campaign to tighten Earl's grip on the governmental reins until no hand but his guides the state of Louisiana...
...Manhattan. Son of a Mississippi River steamboat captain, he began handicapping in 1914, worked at virtually every track in the country before settling down in 1935 to placing weights for the 1,500 races a year at New York's four tracks (Aqueduct, Belmont, Jamaica, Saratoga). Blunt, owlish Louisianian Campbell remained blandly unperturbed by owners' and trainers' protests over his weight assignments, calmly pursued the handicapper's dream, i.e., a race so perfectly handicapped that all entries would finish in a dead heat. He came closer to perfection than any racing secretary...