Dick is a ­teenage bootblack who polishes the shoes of far older, richer men and at night sleeps on New York City’s pavement, sometimes under wagons whose drivers are also asleep. He has an open face ...

The Horatio Alger Association named Michelle Penton of Hazelwood East High School as a 2010 Horatio Alger Missouri Scholar. Penton will receive a $5,000 scholarship. She is one of 50 students in the ...

STRUGGLING UPWARD AND OTHER WORKS —Horatio Alger Jr.—Crown Publishers ($3). Nothing recedes like success. In the field of juvenile literature, Horatio Alger Jr., four of whose novels have just been ...

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s close relationships with wealthy members of the Horatio Alger Association led him to receive lavish vacations, a Super Bowl ring and public support, a New York ...

Life got more humbling for Thomas McKernan as this week’s Horatio Alger Award ceremony in Washington, D.C., approached. The Costa Mesa-based chairman of the Automobile Club of Southern California is ...

It's an anniversary not likely to be celebrated either far or wide, but this year is the 150th anniversary of the first boys' book published by one Horatio Alger Jr. You younger folk probably have ...

The Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans Inc. recently selected Thomas J. Baltimore Jr., a University of Virginia alumnus who worked his way from a modest background to become ...

“In the autobiographies published every year by the billionaire/entrepreneur/rock star/celebrity, the story line is always the same: our hero is born in modest ...

Contrary to common belief, Horatio Alger was never a proponent of “rags to riches” (“Why the Left Hates Horatio Alger” by Ira Stoll, op-ed, Aug. 12). His protagonists didn’t become rich or end up ...

– Chairman of the Board and CEO of Onex to be honoured at Washington, D.C. ceremony – WASHINGTON, Dec. 2, 2015 /CNW Telbec/ – Gerald W. Schwartz, one of Canada’s most distinguished business leaders, ...