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...been a reckless and mischievous youth somewhat overfond of the bottle. On his graduation from Rangoon University in 1929, he became a devout Buddhist. Later he joined the Thakins (masters), a party of young intellectuals dedicated to throwing the British out of Burma. A student of Marx, Dale Carnegie, Bernarr Macfadden and Havelock Ellis, he also" dabbled in yoga. In 1939, as co-founder of a book club with presently jailed Communist Leaders Thakin Soe and Thein Pe, he translated into Burmese How to Win Friends and Influence People...
...whole, Dale Carnegie seems to have made a deeper impression on Thakin Nu than the stern tenets of Marxism. Nu tells a little story to explain his attitude. "The rebels," he says, "remind me of an actor playing the tiger in the famous Burmese drama Mai U. While waiting for his cue to chase the villain he fell asleep, only to wake up suddenly in the middle of the next play, where Prince Siddhartha (Gautama Buddha) was setting out on his charger to follow the life of an ascetic. Thinking he was still in the previous play, the sleepy actor...
...cash and no experience, and scored their first hit with a book of crossword puzzles. Ever since they have scanned the U.S. book mart with a cold, discerning eye. They play down fiction, prefer "authoritative information" to literary excellence, and have published such spectacular moneymakers as Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People...
Prohibition: for President, Claude Watson, 63, a lawyer and retired Free Methodist preacher from Los Angeles; for Vice President, Dale H. Learn, real-estate operator of East Stroudsburg, Pa. The party polled 74,758 votes...
...sultry afternoon last month, the four bought tickets for Hong Kong. Wong sat in the rear of the plane. Chiu Tok chose a seat near the compartment where two pilots, Dale Cramer, an American, and K. S. McDuff, sat at the controls. The pirates looked hungrily at four of their fellow passengers. They were Chinese millionaires who would bring fat ransoms...