It was Bridge's good fortune that Carnegie had selected him to be the bearer of this missive, proof positive that he had managed his way back into Carnegie's good graces.
It occupies a place of honor in the 1, 200-square-foot Rose Museum on the hall's second floor, not far from Fitzgerald's spectacles, the trowel used to lay Carnegie's cornerstone and most precious a ticket from the opening-night concert, May 5, 1891.
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin and hotelier Orison Swett Marden's Success magazine (founded in 1897) were mere warm-ups to Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936) and Norman Vincent Peale's The Power of Positive Thinking (1952).
However his final game with the club came on Saturday with Leeds Carnegie's win at Exeter.
Through ornate gates which commemorate Carnegie's wife, Louise, a path leads into the Fife town's Pittencrieff Park and up towards a statue of the philanthropist himself.
Hired in 1986 to gather memorabilia for Carnegie's 1991 centennial, he stayed on after the festivities, first as a solo act, then as head of a four-person department.
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And when relations between American and Russia grew frosty under President George W. Bush, Carnegie's Moscow office helped keep a line of communication open between the two governments.
"He could have sold out more nights than Liza, " observed Mr. Francesconi, who, at some point bowed to the fact that while making music was well and good, his future lay in Carnegie's past.
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Thus, while Carnegie had gone to great pains to portray himself as a benevolent friend to his workers, he had delegated the job of holding the line on wages and other demands to Frick a Patton to Carnegie's FDR, as it were.
And now the boyishly enthusiastic Mr. Francesconi has a new challenge: orchestrating the preservation and digitization of the 300, 000 programs, fliers, ticket stubs, photographs, letters, albums, scrapbooks and recordings that have been amassed from 50, 000 events in Carnegie's three concert spaces.
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The task of assessing American design's place in the world, and in everyday life, went more or less by default to the Cooper-Hewitt museum, a branch of the Smithsonian Institution, located in what had been Andrew Carnegie's mansion on Fifth Avenue.
By the time Bridge arrived at the Frick mansion, a modern-day palace that its owner had vowed would make Carnegie's place look like a hovel, Bridge would have been beside himself, not only wondering as to the contents of the message he carried, but fearing the response of the man to whom it was addressed.
Countless attempts were also made on the lives of bigger names, such as King Alfonso XII of Spain (1878), Kaiser Wilhelm I of Germany (May and June 1878), Andrew Carnegie's business partner, Henry Clay Frick (Pittsburgh, 1892), a Serbian minister (Paris, 1893) and King Alfonso XIII and his English bride (Madrid, on their wedding day, 1906).
Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute has been an incubator for much of the current work on robots.
Kennedy Center on Feb. 7, and a performance in New York's Carnegie Hall on Feb. 12.
The announcement comes less than two weeks before the club's Carnegie Challenge Cup quarter-final with Bradford Bulls.
She made her debut at Carnegie Hall's Weil Recital Hall, and made her own recording of J.
Its authors, Alessandro Acquisti, Ralph Gross and Fred Stutzman, all at America's Carnegie Mellon University, ran several experiments that show how three converging technologies are undermining privacy.
No recent article on foreign policy is getting more attention than one by the Carnegie Endowment's Robert Kagan in Policy Review, published by Stanford University's Hoover Institution (www.policyreview.org).
On Saturday, when Carnegie Mellon's robotic Chevy Tahoe, known as "Boss, " rolled across the finish line of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Urban Challenge in Victorville, Calif.
But Deacon, who will also line up in Huddersfield for Bradford's Carnegie World Club Challenge match against Wests Tigers on 3 February, refuses to let the life-threatening incident affect him.
The real challenge is figuring out whether a particular storm or flood was due to climate change or natural variables, said Chris Field, founding director of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology.
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The vehicle illustrates the reason President Obama is heading to Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University to kick-off the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership (AMP), a national collaboration between the government, industries, and universities to invest in cutting-edge technologies.
Carnegie Mellon's CREATE Lab is working on a few interesting solutions to the problem of localizing pollution data with a trio of devices aimed at making the process accessible and affordable for regular people.
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And Carnegie Mellon's Red Whittaker is already imaging what the next big DARPA-sponsored event could involve--perhaps a 24-hour race of robotic cars through snow and rain, or maybe team racing with coordinated convoys of driverless cars.
The nation has a massive military budget, which makes it influential in stabilizing the region, Anouar Boukhars, a scholar in the Carnegie Endowment's Middle East program, said in an editorial in The New York Times.
Briefing the US media on the 2010 Ryder Cup golf tournament alongside Celtic Manor venue supremo Sir Terry Matthews, Mr Morgan and a concert by Welsh baritone Bryn Terfel in New York's Carnegie Hall are on the agenda.
Last week, Mr. Bronfman joined the Emerson String Quartet at New York's Carnegie Hall for an all-Brahms program, and this week he partners with Lorin Maazel and the New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall in four performances of the composer's Piano Concerto No. 1.
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Among his recent roles are Emile de Becque in the Lincoln Center revival of "South Pacific" that recently toured Australia (a role that has been played by opera singers), and Stanley Kowalski in the coming modern-opera production of "A Streetcar Named Desire" at Chicago's Lyric Opera and New York's Carnegie Hall in March.
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