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Twenty Questions (Sat. 8 p.m., Mutual). Guest: Dale Carnegie...
...STOP WORRYING AND START LIVING (306 pp.)-Dale Carnegie-Simon & Schuster...
...twelve years, How to Win Friends has sold 3,500,000 copies-excepting classics, a U.S. non-fiction record ("I am probably one of the most astonished authors now living," says Dale Carnegie). How to Stop Worrying, of which 125,000 advance copies are already in print, is likely to make a bestselling bang that will surprise even its sophisticated publishers...
...Worms Have It. When Dale Carnegie discovered that worry was "one of the biggest problems of ... adults," he hotfooted it off to "New York's great public library at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street." To his horror, he found 189 books listed under WORMS, only 22 under WORRY. Obedient to one of his favorite maxims ("Cooperate with the Inevitable"), Carnegie thereupon went to work from scratch. He read everything that "philosophers of all ages have said about worry." He read biographies "from Confucius to Churchill." He interviewed everyone from General Omar Bradley to Dorothy Dix. He spent seven years...
...flopped, too, and Carnegie decided that instead of borrowing from, or acting like others, "you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life." Out of the depths of his heart and personal experience, he drew How to Win Friends and Influence People. Today, wiry, white-maned Dale Carnegie is one of the world's richest authors and most famous men. He has recovered his faith in God and man and is kingpin of the Dale Carnegie Institute of Effective Speaking and Human Relations, whose system is used in 150 U.S. cities. "I can honestly say," says...