Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clothesline by nervous tension, studded with warts of worry, perforated by ulcers, 20th Century man lives his much-cartooned life sandwiched between the deep blues and high blood pressure. Starting this month, he may take a new lease on life: his problems have been taken in hand by the author of the century's bestselling success story, How to Win Friends and Influence People...
...warn you," says he, "you won't find anything new in it, but. . . you and I don't need to be told anything new. We already know enough to lead perfect lives . . . The purpose of this book is to . . . kick you in the shins . . ." Indeed, Author Carnegie's assault on worry is irresistible...
...Earl P. Haney of Winchester, Mass. was forced (by ulcers) "to give up a fine and highly paid position" and expect "a lingering death." He made what Author Carnegie calls a "rare and superb decision"; he set off on a round-the-world jaunt, taking his coffin with him. The undertaker has now bought back the coffin, and Mr. Haney, who stopped worrying en route, has "gained 90 pounds...
Whodunit? Author Gertrude Stein never comes right out and says, and a second reading of her posthumous Blood on the Dining-Room Floor doesn't help much. This curious fling at mystery-story writing by the late expatriate mumbo-jumboist never even admits that a murder is a murder is a murder. And there is no detective in the story to clear things...
Blood is set in the foothill country of the French Alps, where Author Stein and Companion Alice B. Toklas used to spend their summers. Many characters wander into the book and as casually wander out, never to be heard from again. Did the victim fall from a window on to the stone courtyard-or was she pushed? Perhaps "the horticulturist" knows. He sounds like a possible clue: "And now to tell and to tell very well very very well how the horticulturist family lived to tell everything, and they live in spite of everything, they live to tell everything...