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Familiar in the U. S. saga, glorified by literature of the Horatio Alger school, is the newsboy. The soul of independence, he buys his papers with his own money, sells them by his own energy and wits, pockets the profits for himself or hands them over to his needy family. He often grows into a tycoon who in later years can point with pride to his youthful enterprise.* For the Curtis-Martin newspapers of Philadelphia the tradition of newsboy self-reliance was a saving fact last week. It prompted a State Supreme Court decision permitting the newspapers to deal with...
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...contracts, Farrar & Rinehart stepped overnight from second rank to very first. Publisher Farrar was pleased, and well he might be, to be at 36 head of such an affair. For while his favorite author may be Marlowe, no man minds having his life turn into a Horatio Alger tale. Johnny Farrar was a poor boy from Vermont. When he went to Yale to join its strong Class of 1919 he had no influential friends, no cushiony background to carry him over the bumps. Small, squeaky-voiced, with a tousled mop of red hair, Farrar did not look like...
Upton Sinclair, hack writer extraordinary to the Socialist Cause, once wrote dime novels for a living. Now he writes them in all seriousness. Like his literary cousins, the late Jacob Abbott and Horatio Alger, Sinclair is apt to make his heroes into preposterous prigs. In The Wet Parade he has out-prigged himself: his hero is a conscientious Prohibition agent...
...campaign to "humanize Hoover" last week went on the air. To the White House went Jay Jerome Williams, oldtime newsman, who as Edwin Alger now works as a "radio reporter" for National Broadcasting Co.He arranged with Hoover Secretary Joslin, chief humanizer. to spend a day about the White House, interview the President. Reporter Williams arrived at 7:45 a. m., talked with the President for 20 min., roamed about the house, sat in the Lincoln study, played with the six presidential dogs, watched the Hoover grandchildren from a distance, departed at 6 p. m. Last week in a "folksy" broadcast...