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...learn how to handle people will be a lucrative one for you," promised lecturer Gordon MacKinnon with a big smile. MacKinnon had good reason for smiling; New England Mutual Hall was filled for his Demonstration Meeting of the Dale Carnagic Course in Human Relations. Advance newspaper ads had stressed the course's ability to bestow courage, self-confidence, and U. S. currency on those who took it, and three hundred people had felt insecure, inferior, and poor enough to trek into Boston for last Thursday's evening meeting...
...talk by pointing to five dilapidated chairs lined up on the stage. According to MacKinnon four of these chairs were occupied by Demosthenes. Milton, Beethoven, and Franklin Roosevelt--the fifth could be ours if we would give in and take the $96 course. Then he introduced thirteen recent Dale Carnagie Graduates, fit company for the great men of history. Each grad delivered a two minute speech on what the course had done...
...wife (Jeanne Grain) for Christmas, while she sells her beautiful hair to buy him a platinum watch fob; The Last Leaf, in which an unsuccessful artist (Gregory Ratoff) paints his masterpiece to keep a dying girl (Anne Baxter) alive; The Clarion Call, about a cop with a conscience (Dale Robertson) who has to arrest an old chum (Richard Widmark...
...different kind of cover subject was Farmer Gustav Kuester (TIME, April 29, 1946), chosen to typify U.S. farmers. In addition to working 240 acres of Iowa farmland with his son, Dale, Kuester had been a Republican member of the Iowa legislature for twelve years...
...Drawling Dale Robertson and baby-faced Anne Francis saunter through the Haitian underbrush as if they were taking a Sunday stroll in a botanical garden. In a )rief but effective appearance, Ken Renard plays Toussaint L'Ouverture, Haiti's "ounding father, who, judging from the movie, was on hand mainly to give Robertson moral support. But it is deep-voiced William Marshall who towers above the rest of the cast physically and histrionically as fictional Haitian Patriot King Dick...