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...Jackson and Picture Editor Arnold Drapkin. If their years of service are added together, Jackson and Drapkin have been around 19 years longer than the magazine itself, which turned 62 last March. Their rise from office boys to positions of honor and responsibility adds a gratifying chapter to Horatio Alger lore...
Another likely leader for the '90s is Wang Zhaoguo, 44, director of the Communist Party's general office. His story is almost a Chinese version of a Horatio Alger tale. In 1980 Wang, who was then a deputy factory director, was assigned to take Deng on an inspection tour of Hubei province's No. 2 automobile plant. The bespectacled technician made such a good impression on Deng that he was promptly transferred to Peking. Two years later, Wang was elevated to the Central Committee...
...whims. Gardner's first novel, The Flight of Peter Fromm, written when the author was 59, was rejected by several major houses; Kaufmann found it "hilarious" and published it. The low-selling Almanac of American Letters was issued because the publisher found its collage of literary trivia irresistible. (Items: Horatio Alger was unfit for service in the Union Army. The original title of Death of a Salesman was The Inside of His Head. Tarzan does not live in sin, he was married to Jane by her father, a minister. Poet Robert Lowell twice tried to enlist in the armed forces...
Unlike Robby, John Wideman's own life we marked by honors and accolades. At the University of Pennsylvania, John received a four-year Benjamin Franklin scholarship. Years later Wideman admits the irony in his attempt to be self-made man: "I wanted to be Horatio Alger, there seemed to be no limits ... being Black, you had to pretend. I knew I wasn't Horatio Alger and the world wasn't my oyster...
...broken legs. George is still trying to figure out what play he's in. Things are further complicated when the play changes from Private Lives to Hamlet to a kind of Waiting for Godot. Just as George has figured out that Sybil is his wife and Amanda his lover, Horatio marches on stage announcing he has seen the King...