Books: A Kick in the Shins

HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND START LIVING (306 pp.)—Dale Carnegie—Simon & Schuster ($2.95).

Stretched taut as a wet clothesline by nervous tension, studded with warts of worry, perforated by ulcers, 20th Century man lives his much-cartooned life sandwiched between the deep blues and high blood pressure. Starting this month, he may take a new lease on life: his problems have been taken in hand by the author of the century's bestselling success story, How to Win Friends and Influence People.

In twelve years, How to Win Friends has sold 3,500,000 copies—excepting classics, a U.S. non-fiction record...

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