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That a young gentleman, whose heroes are Admiral Horatio Nelson, General George Marshall and former Governor William Scranton, and who numbers among his friends Andrew and Jamie Wyeth and numerous Du Ponts, should enter politics is some of the best news to emerge in the season of Watergate. He is one of a growing number who are now seeking to right a monstrous wrong...
...HORATIO NEWHALL...
Died. Alfred Carl Fuller, 88, the Horatio Alger of door-to-door selling who parlayed a $375 operation into the multi-million-dollar Fuller Brush Co.; of a form of blood cancer; in Hartford, Conn. Fuller got his foot in the door by making brushes at night and soft-selling them by day to housewives in Boston. He eventually recruited an army of Fuller Brush Men and "Fullerettes" that today numbers 25,000 and sells 325 varieties of household brushes, cosmetics and chemicals all over the U.S., Canada and Mexico. According to Fuller's homespun philosophy, " 'American...
...does more. He plunges directly into its central vein and gauges the intensity of the pulse, a manic ebb and flow of raw human yearnings for wealth. Las Vegas is the ultimate embodiment of this process, stripped of genteel pretensions, and it is toward this mecca of the Horatio Alger dream that Thompson heads. He speeds dope-crazed along the desert in a rented convertible, The Great Red Shark, accompanied by his Samoan attorney. Ostensibly he is on assignment for an East Coast sporting magazine to cover the Mint 400, a renowned motorcycle race. But the story is thwarted when...
Perot also has mounted a million-dollar-plus ad campaign that trades frankly on the appeal of his Horatio Alger career and apple-pie patriotism. "For 38 years of my life I was a 'little guy,' " reads one ad. "There are so many of us. We are America. We make this big engine go. That's why duPont is interested in the individual investor." To make duPont more accessible to small investors, Perot has opened its offices six days a week. He has even suggested that U.S. stock exchanges stay open 24 hours a day so that...