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...industry he got into because he was homesick. As such, he has come to share the fate of most symbols-sworn by and sworn at. But Tom Girdler's autobiography, told with professional Saturday Evening Post briskness, is more than the story of steel-more than another Horatio Alger success story. Certain to give laborites the fits, the book is also a belligerently forthright portrait of a notoriously belligerent individual ("My friends tell me that when I get mad my head seems to swell and my eyes to stick out") who has been a central figure in some...
...Composer. Harry Ruby is the Tin Pan Alley prototype of a Horatio Alger hero. Born 48 years ago on Manhattan's East Side, he managed to get through grammar school, took a few music lessons and embarked on a childhood career as a café piano pounder and vaudeville actor. At 17 he got a job with Music Publisher Gus Edwards and wrote the first Ruby hit, When Those Sweet Hawaiian Babies Roll Their Eyes...
Most famed man to have held the post of Orator is probably Oliver Wendell Holmes '61. Included in the distinguished list of former Odists are T. S. Eliot '10, Horatio Alger, Jr., '52, Dean George H. Chase '96, and Kenneth B. Murdock '16, Professor of English...
...afternoon the whole building is in use, and by students. Starting at the bottom like an Alger here, the crevices between the pipes in the basement see service as a shooting gallery for the Mill Sci pistol team...
This week Colonel Bendetsen got an unexpected, embarrassing sequel to the Japanese migration: when a young Japanese-American citizen violated curfew regulations, Portland's Federal Judge James Alger Fee ruled that the curfew law covered aliens only, that General DeWitt had no power over citizens. The reason: martial law had never been declared, was merely assumed. Possible results: 1) declaration of martial law on the Pacific Coast; 2) increased difficulty in enforcing dimouts, etc.; 3) court action by citizen Japanese who may construe from Judge Fee's ruling that they are illegally kept in camps...