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Sammy Click, the Horatio Alger of the dedicated heels, this week made his debut in television-a world in which he would have felt as much at home as he did in Hollywood. Literary case histories of ruthless ambition have greatly multiplied since Sammy first came running 20 years ago, but he still outpaces them all. Novelist Budd Schulberg himself trimmed his book down to a two-part, two-hour television show, and to judge from the first installment (the second is due Sunday, NBC, 8 p.m., E.D.T.), TV cannot dim the rage of Sammy's mean-spirited race...
...option for Street & Smith's owners on some 10% of Conde Nast's stock, Sam Newhouse assumed proprietorship of one of the oldest periodical publishers in the U.S. Established in 1855, Street & Smith prospered with an array of derring-do pulps from such prolific potboilers as Horatio Alger Jr., Ned Buntline, Josh Billings and Bill Nye, bought the early works of Booth Tarkington, Rupert Hughes, Fannie Hurst and many others. Street & Smith writers added many a resonant name to the ranks of folk heroes: Frank Merriwell, Nick Carter, Buffalo Bill. But with time, the derring-do pulps gave...
...times Packard is patently misinformed, as when he asserts that class structures are more flexible in Britain than in the U.S., and he over-sentimentalizes the American past, suggesting that only yesterday Horatio Alger was king. "Status striving" to him seems to be a modern menace, and he writes of it with scant mention of Thorstein ("conspicuous consumption") Veblen or of the massive, fascinating and often exhilarating social climbs described by Balzac, Stendhal, Jane Austen...
...waits until she is not looking, steals the card, and scrams. "If you catch them at the neat minute," he explains, "there is no record in the whole world!" For about 20 years, no one gets Horatio's number (his full name, by no coincidence, is Horatio Alger), and he prowls Manhattan a free man, without diploma, social security, draft or credit card, without compensation for employment or unemployment, without driver's license or vaccination certificate. The authorities finally nail Horatio-his unnumbered presence appears as a sort of vacuum in the city's graph of relief...
...bomb. Argonne National Laboratory Physicist David R. Inglis, newly elected chairman of the politicking Federation of American Scientists, charged that Strauss, out of "personal vindictiveness," had dragged scientific freedom "into the dirt" in the Oppenheimer case. But Inglis threw considerable light on his own judgment when he remarked that Alger Hiss's "sterling character" outweighed the spy charges against...