Press: After Long

While Huey Pierce Long was being buried at Baton Rouge last week the Press found time to take stock of painful inadvertencies caused by his assassination:

¶ Judge, funnybook, had almost finished its entire October issue to be called the "Every Man a King Number,'' the cover depicting a street scene with men & women walking about in ermine robes and crowns.

¶ Life's October issue was already on the presses and beyond recall, honeycombed with unpleasant references to the late Senator, including the announcement that he had led all candidates in a "Public...

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