Do you jump at conclusions when you hear a bit of gossip or when you catch half of a TV newscast? Do you choke up quickly when you listen to a revivalist or a political speaker when he bears down hard on your feelings ? Are there times when you come down in the morning [...]

The case of Charlie is a striking example of how such changes can be accomplished, and the results. Charlie made a great deal more money than he ever expected to have by getting the franchise for pin-ball machines in army camps during World War II. When he settled up after the War was over he [...]

This, my friend, is how graphology has come to you. In the chapters that follow you are going to get a new look at yourself. When you find something you do not like in your own handwriting, face it like the fellow just mentioned. You are not perfect, and when you find things in your [...]

There is a deep debt that you and I both owe to many very earnest scholars, men and women who had achieved too much fame to want to sign cigarette and liquor advertising who permitted me to study their hand­writing, prepare analyses, and then severely criticize them. They did us both a favor. They helped [...]

As for the number of handwritings and people, there were not hun­dreds but thousands of them. My daily mail from magazine readers who were kind enough to read the stuff I wrote-and I wrote ceaselessly except when I was exploring handwriting, ran from fifty to two and three hun­dred letters a day. I read their [...]

It was a dreary afternoon and the Dague Business College had not folded as anticipated. I was dreaming of an editorship of a magazine in Chicago that never materialized, and suddenly back of Frank Gore’s chair his shorthand notes hit me squarely. That is, the idea hit me. Frank made his shorthand notes exactly [...]

It was more or less a matter of trial and error, disappointment, and repeated effort until something happened several years later. I had quali­fied as a shorthand teacher, not of one system but several, but the idea of learning anything about my problem from shorthand never occurred to me at that time-and then I actually [...]