Word: alger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ambition, academic or otherwise, must he made of sterner stuff than the average American male, the sociology fears. Excessive drive and will-in-win, even if it's only for a B-minus, can cost today's Horatto Alger 10 to 15 years of his life under modern tension...
...says, he was born "in a room above a quiet corner saloon." As a boy he read avidly-and saved his books until he had enough to start a lending library. ("Now," says Ted, "I never read books. I read myself out as a child. I started with Horatio Alger and went right through the Rover Boys.") And as a boy he got the idea that he would like to be a professional talker. "I dreamed about my name on an office door," he recalls. "Ted Husing, Commentator." After batting around in a dozen jobs, from carnival shill to real...
...reason with these poor wayward fellows,' Plastic Man observes as he drives a left to the jaw.) He builds on the herd's dreams: he hypnotizes. Thus did Hitler and Mussolini. . . . The Superman of the cartoons is true to his sources. He is not another Horatio Alger hero or a Nick Carter; he is a super state type of hero, with definite interest in the ideologies of herdist politics...
This year his drug and cosmetic business should gross $24 million. Next year he expects to see it hit $36 million. But he yawns like an idle lily at the idea that his record is a rags-to-riches one. Says he: "The Alger story is a bore...
Deadeye Dick might not recognize the old place but Horatio Alger would appreciate the results...