Word: algerish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best to ignore the scandal (TIME, March 11). When Beck returned from Europe last month, he at first refused to be interviewed by any newsman except the PI's Douglass Welch-who with P-I Editorial Writer Nard Jones has turned out a Horatio Algerish version of Beck's life struggle. Later, when the Times gleefully quoted Beck's admission that he had paid Welch and Jones a handsome advance out of his own (or the Teamsters') pocket, the P-I ran an embarrassed story explaining that the unpublished (and unsold) book was the reporters...
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