Another great word painter who has held top appeal with the public for many years is the writer of plate 11. Lowell Thomas. As you have listened to him it has not been possible for you to miss the deep, under­lying strength he has put back of everything he has said. There is strength in [...]

You have a specimen of that writer’s work in plate 9. After studying it I gave the answer that it was likely to be fiction, because I could not think of any other subject that will permit such a wide range of color in background, and suggested that such fiction would almost certainly be laid [...]

The writing in this illustration has a great many heavy strokes, and heavy strokes have their own value in addition to what they reveal about emotional expression or lack of it. Take for example the illustration, plate 7, which is uniformly heavy all the way through. It is not smudged, but heavy. J. Jefferson wrote [...]

“Once again-the rule is very simple. You start where the up-stroke starts up from the base line and stop measuring it when it stops going up. You should easily understand the marking of this specimen.
“However, all up-strokes are not made in the same manner in which those in the first specimen were executed. Some writers [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The why of this became a consuming thought. After all they had said, why did I seemingly obstinately continue to add those long strokes which did not belong there?, Although I was not very alert mentally, (my hand­writing  from  those  days  shows  that  I  was  mentally  about  as  nim-com-poopish as the average, maybe more so) [...]