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Hobson's Choice is a Warm Glow picture. With everyone happy, married, and well on the way to becoming rich at the end, the plot is beyond the most fanciful requirements of Horatio Alger. Fortunately, Hobson's Choice is, betimes, a funny picture...
...know the details of the charges nor the motives for this crime." As for the Communist insistence that a minister must answer for all the acts of subordinates, even their crimes, Scelba was scathing: the U.S. Secretary of State was not believed culpable because one of his subordinates, Alger Hiss, was found guilty of a crime. Britain's Foreign Secretary was not replaced when two of his subordinates vanished behind the Iron Curtain. "In Russia," added Scelba wryly, "the head of the police was executed because he had supposedly been serving capitalism, but I am not aware that...
...Horatio Alger stories are now considered corny because they are irrelevant. Their function of training the young for the drive toward goals on the frontier of work has been replaced by the mass-media effort to "train the young for the frontiers of consumption-to tell the difference between Pepsi-Cola and Coca-Cola . . . We may mark the change by citing an old nursery rhyme...
Died. Clarke S. Ryan, 31, an assistant U.S. Attorney under Thomas F. Murphy, who, after Murphy resigned to become New York City police commissioner, took over the Government's case against Alger Hiss; of polio; in Manhattan...
process of skewering McCarthy, Authors Rorty and Decter reserve a few sharp thrusts for some of his critics-the breed described by Old Socialist Norman Thomas as the liberals "who may be reluctantly persuaded that Alger Hiss is guilty, but never can forgive Whittaker Chambers." Rorty and Decter completely reject the hysterical view that the U.S. is in the grip of McCarthy-inspired hysteria, or that the man from Wisconsin is the American Hitler...