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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when he appeared as a participant on a television panel show, David Susskind's Open End, with his World-Telegram partner Fred J. Cook. Teamed with Gleason on numerous expose stories, Cook, 49, a World-Telegram veteran of 15 years and a sometime author (The Unfinished Story of Alger Hiss), did most of the writing. Husky, broad-shouldered Gene Gleason did most of the reportorial digging. They worked together on the 1956 slum-clearance expose, collaborated again this year on an extracurricular writing assignment for the Nation. Titled "The Shame of New York," it was a 62-page rehash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Nothing Halts Him | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

...season at Jordan Hall in Boston, James A. Wechsler, editor of the New York Post, called Nixon an insincere man "who weaves from the right side of the road to the left and should be arrested for drunken driving." He cited the vicePresident's treatment of the Alger Hiss case and his support for negotiations with the Russians as "an example of his twoheaded politics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Journalists Disagree On Position of Nixon As U.S. Policy-maker | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

Sammy Click, the Horatio Alger of the dedicated heels, this week made his debut in television-a world in which he would have felt as much at home as he did in Hollywood. Literary case histories of ruthless ambition have greatly multiplied since Sammy first came running 20 years ago, but he still outpaces them all. Novelist Budd Schulberg himself trimmed his book down to a two-part, two-hour television show, and to judge from the first installment (the second is due Sunday, NBC, 8 p.m., E.D.T.), TV cannot dim the rage of Sammy's mean-spirited race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Still Running | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

...option for Street & Smith's owners on some 10% of Conde Nast's stock, Sam Newhouse assumed proprietorship of one of the oldest periodical publishers in the U.S. Established in 1855, Street & Smith prospered with an array of derring-do pulps from such prolific potboilers as Horatio Alger Jr., Ned Buntline, Josh Billings and Bill Nye, bought the early works of Booth Tarkington, Rupert Hughes, Fannie Hurst and many others. Street & Smith writers added many a resonant name to the ranks of folk heroes: Frank Merriwell, Nick Carter, Buffalo Bill. But with time, the derring-do pulps gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Inherited Deal | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

...times Packard is patently misinformed, as when he asserts that class structures are more flexible in Britain than in the U.S., and he over-sentimentalizes the American past, suggesting that only yesterday Horatio Alger was king. "Status striving" to him seems to be a modern menace, and he writes of it with scant mention of Thorstein ("conspicuous consumption") Veblen or of the massive, fascinating and often exhilarating social climbs described by Balzac, Stendhal, Jane Austen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bestseller Revisited, Jun. 8, 1959 | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

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