GEORGIA: Gene & Junior

(See front cover) One year ago next week a young man in a white suit stepped out into a corridor of Louisiana's Capitol at Baton Rouge and changed the course of U. S. history by pumping a fatal bullet into Huey P.

Long. Since then the closest approach to the earthy, colorful antics and harangues of a Roosevelt-hating Democrat with which Louisiana's Senator used to pack the galleries and make national headlines have been the juvenilities of West Virginia's Rush D. Holt. Next week—one day before the anniversary of Long's death—Georgians will...

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