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...London Madhouse Company of course has no such tear-jerking Horatio Alger story. It was marketed from the start by the slick professional Playbillpublicity machine, and it has in fact played with phenomenal success in several countries. Still as we watch the red-faced clownish musician attempting to play a dozen battered instruments taped around a bedframe, we can recapture some of the extemporaneous, frantically amateurish flavour of a uniquely American institution that traces its origins to the days of Mr. Bones and Mr. Tambo...
...familiar, too talkative, too scarred, too compromised, just too much of everything-all of these terms have been applied to Hubert Horatio Humphrey. Then what is this? When a reporter last week asked President Ford whom he considered his likeliest opponent in the 1976 race, he replied, "Humphrey probably is as good a guess...
...Horatio Alger-type sports heroes are no longer as popular as they heroes are no longer as popular as they were a few decades back, because Harvard could cash in on its current top halfback, Alky Tsitsos...
...Your article on Herbert R. Mayes' Alger: A Biography Without a Hero [June 10] neglected to mention that Horatio Alger scholars for decades have known of the contradictions in his book. It was not until 1972, however, that Mayes publicly revealed that his volume was intended to be a debunking biography. William Henderson, then an associate editor of Doubleday, began corresponding with Mayes, and gradually the author told him the history behind the writing of his book. Earlier this year their complete correspondence was printed in the Horatio Alger Society's newsletter, Newsboy, with Mayes subsequently receiving honorary...
Vice President Horatio Alger Society...