When Huey Long was an emerging backwoods politician, he acquired a secretary and a favorite in petite, 16-year-old Alice Lee Grosjean. Now 33 and an apparently permanent fixture on Louisiana’s ...

When he returned to the capitol, he said to pretty little Miss Alice Lee Grosjean, his hazel-eyed, auburn-haired, 24-year-old confidential secretary: “Miss Grosjean, write out a commission ...