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...company in the family's interest. Mosley details how this proud man was genuinely aggrieved and confounded when a government committee led by Alger Hiss investigated du Pont's World War I activities and accused them of gross profiteering. He simply could not fathom the criticism. In his mind had it not been for du Pont's efforts, the allies would not have had enough gunpowder...
Like an updated--and much taller--version of Horatio Alger, the Harvard basketball team pulled itself into the respectable middle class of the Ivy League this weekend, adding an upset 81-71 victory over Columbia Saturday night to its overtime triumph over Cornell the night before...
Previous Bowdoin prize winners include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Horatio Alger, former Harvard president Nathan M. Pusey '28, and Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University...
Most Convincing Evidence That the U.S. Is Still a British Colony: Upstairs, Downstairs; Elizabeth R; The Six Wives of Henry VIII; Civilisation; I, Claudius; The Pallisers; The Duchess of Duke Street; Monty Python's Flying Circus. The Horatio Alger Award: To ABC, the little engine that could, for puffing its way into the Nielsen station and becoming the top-rated network in 1976, after a lifetime in last place. Most Watched Show: Roots, which not only broke all records of the '70s, but was also the most popular TV entertainment in history...
...Blunt, he is the classic pattern of the Cambridge aesthete, with a quiet precise voice, and a taste for subdued lighting and respectfully adoring young men. In some ways, given the difference between Cambridge, Mass., and Cambridge, England, he is reminiscent of Alger Hiss. He mentioned in his apologia that in the '30s he was drawn to Marxism and the U.S.S.R. in the light of Chamberlain's appeasement policy, but went on to admit that it was the influence of Burgess that led him to translate this vague sympathy into active service on behalf...