He and Zelman Bokser, the school's violin teacher, were helping students prepare for the famous Carnegie Hall.

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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.

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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).

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