Word: algers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gray was, indeed. He had first met Nixon in 1947 at a black-tie dinner at Washington's Chevy Chase Club. Gray was then attending George Washington University, sent there by the Navy to get his law degree. Nixon was a freshman Congressman making headlines with his Alger Hiss investigation. The two got along well and struck up a correspondence. Early in 1960, when Nixon was Vice President, Gray worked for him as an advisor on military matters. When Nixon ran for President against John Kennedy, Captain Gray quit the Navy, giving up some retirement benefits to join the campaign...
WEDNESDAY: Little Caesar. (1950). Horatio Alger story of the Syndicate with Edward G. Robinson as the rags-to-offers-you-can't-refuse hero...
...debt-ridden parson, Alger did not have to invent his scenes of poverty. His happy endings may smack blandly of fantasy, but his harsh beginnings have the bite of realism. Like all Alger heroes, Frank Manton is first and last a survivor in a tough world - a world, Alger makes protestingly plain, of child labor, a world in which a wom an working as a seamstress might earn as little...
Like Dickens, Alger loved this world despite all the cruelty and cor ruption. His Wall Street district scenes give off a certain jolly hum. He describes a midtown brownstone as if his nose were pressed against the window. Writing of nickel rides on the el or six-course meals (wine included) for 75?, he exudes a kind of festivity...
Reading an Alger novel, Playwright S.N. Behrman once said, is like taking a shower in innocence. Alger could not hate even his villains. The kidnapers in Silas Snobden's Office Boy are half hearted scoundrels, outstandingly stupid rather than wicked...