 Elmer Ford's private secretary in "The Little Nugget", Mr Minnick is a wiry little man with grey hair and spectacles, and a manner which is at once determined and apologetic.He pursues Ford's cause relentlessly, wresting the kidnapped Ogden Ford from the clutches of his mother.Archibald "Archie" Tracy Moffam (pronounced "Moom") is the protagonist of the short stories collected in "Indiscretions of Archie".