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...Secretary-General for the San Francisco conference was named at Yalta but announced only last week-lanky, Harvard-trained Alger Hiss, one of the State Department's brighter young...
Stores, theaters, banks were still closed. Such business as existed was conducted in dusty bazaars or hole-in-the-wall shops. Boys offered fifths of rum and bad Philippine whiskey. A pretty girl named Carmelita Gloria hawked 1941 Liberty, magazines and Horatio Alger novels. But most of Manila was engaged in the elementary tasks of finding something to eat, and, now that sleep was possible...
...rise which thus has more of Dale Carnegie than Horatio Alger in it, the next friend whom Ed Stettinius won and influenced was U.S. Steel's Myron C. Taylor, in 1933. U.S. Steel was rich, fat, sprawling and unwieldy. Taylor had three ambitions : to tighten its management, to increase its popularity with the public and to step out. He chose a triumvirate of youngsters to succeed him: Ben Fairless to handle sales and operations; Enders M. Voorhees to oversee finances; and Ed Stettinius to be "front man." Ed began as vice chairman of the finance committee...
...odds with the reckless public attitudes of his great years. He was devoutly religious, a family man who never went into nightclubs. The jazz age never won him away from songs like the Mulligan Guards. He toiled stubbornly for social reform. His life story had the old Horatio Alger plot. He was a poor East Side boy with an Irish gift for politics and people, who made good against tremendous odds...
...clear sailing MacCallister meets a rival from an exclusive prep-school who, swims across the lake in nothing flat, owns a flashy car, and takes advantage of the opportunities with the Shirley Temple girl that MacCallister has overlooked. But the Horatio Alger wins out amid the thundering hoofs of the trotters and the green grass growing all around, all around, everyone is happy except the audience...