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Show "HOW TO WIN FRIENDS and INFLUENCE PEOPIF lHE BOY WHO Made A DREAM COME TRUC QOME Y EARS AGO there lived in Tom's River, N T a ', v who "didn't seem to find himself." Didn't seein to have anv ambition at all, the neighbors said. Iiis name was Simon Lake. His father was a mechanic and had a small foundry busi-u busi-u .,-, ness of his own. One day the boy picked up a copy of a book entitled "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under Un-der the Sea." lie was thrilled; his imagination imagina-tion was set on fire. He himself wanted to cruise under the sea bent upon strange adventures. adven-tures. When he told the neighbors he was going go-ing to build a boat that would sail under water they thought he was just plain nuts. Eut that is not a had io-Ti U-.t; 1 i. ...t. D. Carneeie t , 7 . J nms. jjui uiai v . . 1S not, 3 bd sign: having people think what , L h l beLdo"e- The hy carted experimenting fired with ? Sk 7" NT h,C WaS " loner laz' : instead- he was far L short M; WaS forSotten : th days were wh JnZ WT Vr ne With exPerien in his line to tell hin, a ne v ore ?, f V WaS 3 P'neer; a Balboa lookinf? not upon a new ocean but upon a new sea bed. and ??,Ldry PeC,p'e Saw a mo"strous machine in the river it a lo ."if0" t0 "1SpeCt it; the' Pll,led out from under is 1 te' O J1"" frm Under that cl"eer 'aine and saved ins lite. Or so thev thought Rt n, ,.. . ah,,,., f,, fi, I ,, "? K''e inem a inner Jance, for they had pulled him away from bis experiment. Athnlic ln.i,rn WOv,'?g,and "imentii,, and, finally, at act', "m - 5 N-TJ- h launched his fir submarinc.'Ves. worked 11 is Z 1 WaS Prol)clld by hand-crank, but it worked, ihs dieam was being turned into actuality thisIoulLJ'"11"' h5rbuilt submarine with an engine; om under the u0f k'6' Ntt nl-this- but he telephoned on top'of the ndoueaSi it, he got a tre- which had so t rrL l man who had written that book the cab egram the"r,g,'latci0n ears aS' The sender of turned mf Z'L'o I reality bk id ! "YoU tave countrrbutbroadPtHen ePnt9, not only in this mariney He dtedTn Time 't??"16 th-e faUler of 'he sb" lake's lifVbuTr fi've's Wh0aaa.n0t from1 ahbarreMnwralT Lln who fished ' bk study law fromnthe nVsiaatlVH,1IaSe'.Ii"is, a"d started to of law launched him ont he rceivd from it. This study , I .er, president ofThe Un ed'stat'' heTb?m a" holder; be had not read tfiat i 3 ?' U ls uite Possible that it dent. Caa tnat book he "ght never have become presi- The- power of book is tremendons I |