... began studying to be an actress in 1927, she showed very little potential. She was told by the head instructor of the John Murray Anderson Drama School, "Try any other profession. Any other." Sometimes you just can't tell who will succeed and who will fail. There was ... 1. Brian McGinty, "The Man Who Called Himself `O. Henry,'" AMERICAN HISTORY ILLUSTRATED (May/June 1990), pp. 50-51. 2. Clive James, FAME (New York: Random House, 1993), p. 133. 3. Robert A. Schuller, THE WORLD'S GREATEST COMEBACKS (Nashville: ...
