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...Hermitage. American business biography abounds in up-from-the-bottom stories; few are quite so dramatic and revealing as Sarnoff's. Owen D. Young said that Sarnoff had lived "the most amazing romance of its kind on record." Horatio Alger himself could hardly have done it in one book; he would have needed Adrift in New York, Nelson the Newsboy, The Telegraph Boy and Joe's Luck or Always Wide Awake...
Your April 23 article, "Six Who Talked Back" [high-ranking generals in U.S. history who defied the Administration], is a highly interesting piece of American history. I am wondering if you should not have made it seven, and included Horatio Gates, who, after his successful campaign against Burgoyne in 1777, connived through the instrumentality of the Conway Cabal to displace George Washington as commander in chief of our armies...
...Horatio Hunnewell, a well-to-do young man at the turn of the century, fell in love with a Wellesley math instructor. She, however, was more attached to her work, and refused to marry him. As a constant reminder to her, he had these gardens laid out on his estate where she could see them constantly, and, he hoped, blame herself for ruining his life...
Just like Horatio Alger, E. Merl Young began at the bottom of the ladder and worked his way up in no time at all simply because he was personable, persevering alert-and a friend of the man who owned the ladder...
Died. Edward Agar Horatio Nelson, fifth Earl Nelson, 90, great-great nephew of Britain's Admiral Nelson (1758-1805) and last to get the "perpetual" ?5,000-a-year pension to Nelson's heirs; in London. The Socialist government unilaterally canceled Britannia's promise to the man who made her Mistress of the Seas...