Dale Carnegie's Biographical Roundup

Biographical RoundupBOB HOPE: Once he couldn''t hold a job in a storage warehouse; but he now holds down the job of America''s favorite comedian;CAPTAIN EDDIE RICKENBACKER: He is a hero of two wars, yet he was once too shy to say "Good Morning";JOHN BARRYMORE: He earned five thousand dollars a day, yet he searched garbage cans for food for his pet vulture;OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES: At sixty he attended burlesque shows; at ninety-three he read Plato to improve his mind;JAN CHRISTIAN SMUTS: One of Great Britain''s most famous leaders married a woman who refused to have children under the British flag;BERNARD BARUCH: A phrenologist advised his mother, now he advises presidents;GENERAL OMAR BRADLEY: How a shy, self-conscious boy became one of America''s greatest military leaders;ADMIRAL CHESTER W. NIMITZ: He knows how to handle ships, Japs, and wives;MADAME CHIANG KAI-SHEK: She faced a hundred thousand hostile soldiers to save her husband;GENERAL MARK CLARK: The general who conquered Rome stood twenty-eighth from the bottom of his class at West Point;CONNIE MACK: The most famous ball club manager in America lost eight hundred games in eight years;GENERAL DWIGHT EISENHOWER: They said he would teach history; instead, he makes history for others to teach;LOWELL JACKSON THOMAS: He dictates in taxicabs and travels five thousand miles for one week of skiing;CAPTAIN EDWARD ELLSBERG: He went down to the sea in a diver''s helmet and brought up a drydock;AND MORE...