by Marie Beynon Ray
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by Marie Beynon Ray
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This is a very neat old book. The book talks of various ways to over come your handicaps. Some of the ways we think of as modern are things like orthopedic and plastic surgery(face lifts). Other ways tell about people who dealt successfully with problems of blindness, deafness and speech impediments like stuttering. Some chapters tell how to go about getting employment when you are discriminated against because of your apparent difficulties as well as listing employers who are employ handicapped workers. The stories about some of the people are inspiring.
The book was published in 1948 by The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis & New York. It is a stated First Edition . The book measures 6 inches by 8 ¾ inches and contains 336 pages. The maroon cloth cover has the title in gilt on the front and on the spine. The cover shows some cosmetic spotting to the spine and the top and right edge of the front board. The cover shows signs of wear to the edges, corners and to the top and bottom of the spine. The spine is tight and the hinges are strong. The pages show no signs of rips. Initials are inscribed on the back free end page and it appears that there was a sticker below them that is now removed. The surface of the paper on the paste-downs is removed in the area where it looks like the dust jacket flaps had been fastened at one point. Exceptions noted, the overall condition of this book is good plus or better.
Contents:
Excerpt – Things that happen to other people:
A day in June 1941.
The new streamline Broadway Limited stands flashing its flanks in the Sunnyside railroad yards in Long Island.
Suddenly bulbs explode, cameras click, the crowd surges. A man in trunks steps out on the tracks, hitches a rope to the observation car, braces himself, pulls. The whole seventy-two tons of steel quiver and follow him along the track like a dog on a leash.
He is forty-seven years old and his real name is Angelo Siciliano.
Never heard of him? Wait.
Angelo was born in Brooklyn, the son of Italian immigrants, and he lived in the slums. But worse than that, even at sixteen he was, in his own words, “a 97 pound runt, pale, nervous, and a prey to bullies.”
One Saturday he went with a group of boys from the Italian Settlement House to the Brooklyn Museum. Angelo never got beyond the main lobby. All afternoon he sat transfixed by the statues of the Greek gods and goddesses, gazing a little at Apollo but mostly at Hercules. He had no idea that he was held spellbound by the highest expression of art man has ever attained. He thought it was the biceps of Hercules.
Angelo almost fell of the bench when the group leader informed him that these statues were actually the likenesses of men. The great sculptors of antiquity, he explained, had always used young Greek athletes for their models.
These, then, were men! Not gods, but men! And if men-!
That evening Angelo Siciliano clipped a series of exercises from a newspaper and began making himself over in the likeness of a Greek god.
Month after month he kept at it, convinced that what man could do Angelo could do.
He never gave up. Not when everyone sneered at his feeble display of muscle. Not when he stepped swaggeringly up to a bully and said, “Wanna wrastle?” and the fellow just put out a hand and pushed him over. Not when he saw pictures of Bernarr flexing the famous Macfadden muscles and learned he could never hope to achieve this state without all sorts of fancy gymnasium equipment.
No, he just started inventing his own exercises, pitting one muscle against another, a system he was later to call Dynamic Tension. Presently there is no doubt about it, even when someone else took the measurements – Angelo was beginning to bulge in all directions…
End excerpt
Do you know who he became famous as?
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