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...Horatio Alger tradition. He can boast of rising at 5 a.m. (aged 12) and walking half a mile through the fields of Aberdeenshire to shine 20 pairs of shoes. He did odd jobs at the age of 9, taught himself shorthand at 13, worked 60 hours as a printer's devil for 75? a week at 14. In the 46 years since then, B. C. Forbes has made a career of discovering other Alger heroes. Worming the life stories out of some 500 men, he has splashed them reverently across the continent in his own and Hearst publications. Charles...
...even by the flattest traditions of Naturalism, they scarcely exist. Joe Stecher is a German-American, his wife Gurlie is Norwegian, his daughters are Lottie, 5, and Flossie, 2. They live in Manhattan, on 104th Street, and the year is 1901. Joe has quit his job (he is a printer) and is trying against stiff, not to say dirty, opposition to set up in business for himself. He lacks the proper piratical zest; but Gurlie is hell-bent to get him-and herself-In the Money. In the long run he succeeds, they get a house in the suburbs. Meanwhile...
Fletcher Martin was born in Colorado, son of an ambulant small-town newspaper man who made him a journeyman printer at 12. At 15, Fletcher Martin ran away, has been on the loose ever since. As a lumberman, harvester and sailor, he discovered art by drawing dirty pictures for his pals. He joined the Navy to get three squares a day, became a top-notch boxer, began painting seriously when he got out in 1926. Settling in California, he rapidly won museum awards, Federal mural jobs; had one-man shows in Los Angeles and in San Diego...
Young French Historian Jules Michelet, a poor printer's son born in 1798, after the French Revolution, was inspired by Vico. Wrote Michelet: "... I was seized by a frenzy caught from Vico, an incredible intoxication with his great historical principle." This frenzied intoxication, coupled with an idea that Vico did not live long enough to share-the idea of progress-lasted Michelet through a lifetime of historical writing...
Actually young PM had not lost money at quite the fabulous rate of $500,000 a month. $300,000 was spent in promotion which provided the extraordinary build-up with which PM was launched in June. All pre-publication outgo, including nearly $300,000 to enable PM's printer to put in special equipment, the cost of getting a 400-man staff (200 editorial, 200 business) into practice, totaled some $900,000. This left only about...