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...political ladder of America using his crises as the rungs. His first (if we, like him, do not mention in detail the Voorhis and Douglas campaigns) was the Hiss case, in which the freshman Congressman used a seat on the Un-American Activities Committee to ensure the conviction of Alger Hiss for perjury. He built on his success a reputation for finding subversives, and so it was that General Eisenhower, who hardly knew him in 1952, chose him as a running mate able to push the first two anti-Truman planks in the Republican platform. Communism, corruption, Korea; the General...
Republicans are showing an appreciable degree of respectability in Texas and will perhaps display even greater strength in the next few years. It remains to be shown, however, whether or not Republicans can survive as a right-wing party. Conservatives have been encouraged by the victory of Bruce Alger in the Dallas Congressional elections and by the impressive triumph of John Tower. But Tower's may be the last great state-wide victory the right-wing will enjoy. Conservatives will continue to be strong in Dallas and in the Dixiecrat belts of East Texas but they may soon find themselves...
...potatoes and maybe a little bag of onions." Friends still recall seeing young John McCormack crouched on a curbstone, reading by the flickering light of a gas street lamp. He devoured dozens of Dick Merriwell* adventures, and he retains a reverence for the rags-to-riches novels of Horatio Alger. "Parents," he says, "should make Horatio Alger stories must reading for their children. They build fine character...
...Good as the Count's. The life of Samuel Henry Kress could have been written by Horatio Alger, except for the fact that Kress never married the boss's daughter. Born in Cherryville. Pa., in 1863, he grew up a bookish boy who at 17 landed a teaching job in Slatington, six miles away. Kress's salary was only $25 a month, but he managed to save up enough money to open a novelty store in Nanticoke. Before long, he had a wholesale house in Wilkes Barre. By the time he died in 1955, there were...
...jovial hero of this Horatio Alger story is Charles W. Lubin, 58, president of the Kitchens of Sara Lee. Like all Alger heroes, Lubin ascribes his success to a simple formula: Lubin makes what Lubin likes. What stocky Charley Lubin likes are diet-defying coffee cakes, cheesecakes, chocolate cakes and pound cakes-all loaded with calorie-packed butter and topped wherever possible with sugar icings and pecans. And Lubin's taste for rich, high-quality baked goods is clearly widely shared. Now the most profitable subsidiary of Chicago's Consolidated Foods Corp. (other brands: Monarch, Hires), Sara...