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...Speaker's Handbook of Epigrams and Wlttieisms," by Herbert V. Prochnow; 332.pp. Harper and Brothers, New York...
...with stock low (seems sort of self-disparaging for a banker), that he is one of Chicago's most popular after-dinner speakers, and that he has written such books as 1001 Ways to Improve Your Conversation and Speeches, Meditations on the Ten Commandments, and, most, recently, Speaker's Handbook of Epigrams and Witticisms. There is one good quality of Mr. Prochnow's however, that "Time" forgot to mention. This is his modesty. Anyone who has read Speaker's Handbook of Epigrams and Witticisms must realize that its author is one of the most modest men in the world...
When spare, grey Herb Prochnow speaks conversationally, his low voice can barely he heard over the humming of the air-conditioning units in the vast First National Bank building. Yet he is one of Chicago's most popular speakers. Besides The Toastmaster's Handbook, he has written The Public Speaker's Treasure Chest, The Speaker's Handbook of Epigrams and Witticisms, The Speaker's Treasury of Stories for All Occasions, and 1001 Ways to Improve Your Conversation and Speeches.* Some Prochnow advice: "Do not overemphasize to the listener or reader that the story...
...wishful thinkers would have liked to have it the other way, Columbus Day will be observed this year on Oct. 12, the day Christopher Columbus supposedly discovered America. The Coop, looking forward to a big weekend, inadvertently said that it would be observed on Monday the 10th in the handbook it publishes yearly...
Died. Johannes Cardinal de Jong, 69, Archbishop of Utrecht, courageous anti-Nazi during World War II as chief Catholic prelate in The Netherlands, author of the classic Handbook of Church History; after long illness; in Amersfoort, The Netherlands. Ailing on the date of the Consistory in 1946 when he was to have been elevated to cardinal, Archbishop de Jong received the red hat of office from Pope Pius XII in a special ceremony at Pope Pius' summer residence eight months later, was the first resident cardinal in The Netherlands since the Reformation...