Oct. 1--The good burghers of Marlborough, Mass., are rethinking the celebration of one of their hometown heroes, Horatio Alger, honored annually with a street fair. The city might change the name of the fair because its leaders have belatedly discovered that Mr. Alger, legendary author and emblem of hard-working American values, was once accused of molesting two boys while minister of a Cape Cod church. Accused, but neither tried nor convicted. Revisionist history is dangerous, ...
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