The Power of Positive Thinking shows, organized the American Foundation of Religion and Psychiatry, and co-founded the spiritual newsletter "Guideposts" with his wife, Ruth Stafford Peale. "The Power of Positive Thinking" was published in October 1952 and continues to be Peale's most widely read work. It lived on the New York Time's best-sellers list for 186 weeks, 48 of which were spent in the No. 1 nonfiction spot. The book sold more than 5 million copies worldwide — 2.5 million from 1952 to 1956 — and was eventually translated into over 40 languages. Other books published by Peale around 1952 include "The Art of Real
The Mississippi Gambler (1953 film) of $3 million by the end of 1953. The Mississippi Gambler (1953 film) The Mississippi Gambler is a 1953 American Technicolor Western adventure film directed by Rudolph Maté. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Sound Recording (Leslie I. Carey). This film was the third Universal Studios film to bear this title--though with a different plot each time, "The Mississippi Gambler" (1929), "Mississippi Gambler" (1943). Mark Fallon (Tyrone Power) meets professional gambler "Kansas John" Polly (John McIntire), who takes him under his wing. As they board a riverboat bound for New Orleans, Kansas John advises him to