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Famous Criminal Typewriters. In America, the most notorious was the Woodstock No. N230099, which was used as evidence in the Alger Hiss trials, although no one seems to have been able to prove whether or not the Woodstock No. N230099 was in fact involved, and if so, or not, what it did, or did not do. In "A Case of Identity," Sherlock Holmes exposed the culprit by examining the faulty letters on typewritten notes. Holmes explained: "A typewriter has really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting." The word processor's criminal potential is probably infinite...
...there's a Horatio Alger on the Harvard football, program, then it's Jim Garvey. Before being recognized as one of the squad's most talented and versatile performers, Garvey had to steer his way around several obstacles. Seeing very little playing time through the beginning of his junior year, Garvey spent most of his time working with the demo squad and watching the events of a game from the sidelines...
...individual voices deal the strongest emotional punch--particularly Bernstein, who varies her tone and character effortlessly from scrappy, Horatio-Alger-like preteen newsboy to gentle, pained, unfulfilled wife and mother, and Barry Mann, who as a migrant worker urging a grapes boycott evokes a universe of hardship and anger in Spanish melody...
...long time ago, Sylvester Stallone had charm: a down and out actor playing a down and out fighter. He wins the girl, and Rocky wins the Oscar. Horatio Alger at 6'2", 202 pounds. But newspapers soon reported that Stallone left his wife after he graced Newsweek's cover. Then he appeared in easily forgettable films like F.I.S.T. and Victory, making it easy not to like him too much. Rocky III makes it easier, even if, as reported, Sylvester and Sasha have decided to give their marriage one more...
...last year's Boston Open however, the match-up did not materialize. Mark Alger upset Khan in the quarterfinals, and Desaulniers captured the championship relatively unchallenged. So this year when Desaulniers and Khan worked their way through their halves of the 16-man draw to reach yesterday's final 200 spectators jammed into standing room only conditions at Hemenway, and many more were turned away at the door...