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Epee: Peckham (B) defeated Constable (H), 3-1, and Arp (H), 3-2. Prescott (B) defeated Arp (H), 3-1, and Ager (II), 3-1. Alger (H) defeated Garr (B), 3-1, Peckham (B), 3-2, and Perscott (B), 3-1. Arp (H) tied Garr...
Five businessmen last week were designated the most notable Horatio Alger heroes in the U.S. This distinction-with a scroll-was conferred upon them by the American Schools and Colleges Association, which polled 800 U.S. educational institutions to determine which businessmen "best symbolize the traditional Horatio Alger career." Actually, only two of the winners had come up from rags to riches. They were General Electric's Charles E. Wilson, onetime $4-a-week shipping clerk, and I. J. Fox, who ran one fur coat into the largest U.S. fur chain. The rags of the other Alger boys had been...
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...