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...only the infantile country of William Steig's "Dreams of Glory." Clearly, Billy's imagination has been spoon-fed and molded from childhood by radio, telly, and newsreels: it is, alack, the imagination of his whole generation--as trite and enfeebled as the bourgeois lives around him. Chained in Alger-like dreams of limitless possibility, Billy never learns this fatal secret...
...They came in one morning and said, 'We've got the goods on Alger Hiss.' This was in '45, mind you, long before anything else broke...
...Texas as a whole is just as varied in its politics as it is in its natural resources. It has one of the nation's most conservative Senators in Republican John Tower. Dallas Republican Congressman Bruce Alger is well to the right of Barry Goldwater. Democrats normally dominate state politics, but they themselves are torn between "liberals" (who nonetheless supported Republican Tower instead of a Democratic nominee from the rival faction) and "conservatives" like Lyndon Johnson and John Connally, who are not conservative...
Perhaps Dallas right-wingers made their biggest splashes with their demonstrations against the Vice-Presidential nominee, Lyndon Johnson, in 1960, and U. N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson a month before President Kennedy's assassination. Led by Congressman Alger, a crowd of 50 pickets met candidate Johnson in the lobby of a Dallas hotel. Several demonstraters jostled both him and Lady Bird, but the nominee declined police aid declaring, "the day hasn't come when me and my Lady can't walk through a Dallas hotel." More recently Ambassador Stevenson confronted Dallas' wild wooly right after a U. N. Day speech...
...modern Horatio Alger is a penniless Negro who rises from the rags of a segregated Southern high school to the riches of Harvard. As in the classic story, he has a patron. It is the National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students, a counseling agency that finds poor Negroes with rich minds and then finds colleges and scholarships for them. In 15 years of scouring South and North, NSSFNS (which is commonly reduced to "Ness-feness" in speech) has successfully planted 9,000 Negroes in 350 mostly-white colleges, and last week it revealed its chief asset: the Negroes...