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P.T. 巴纳姆：奋斗与胜利·补录 574
P.T. 巴纳姆《奋斗与胜利》· Struggles and Triumphs · 领导
One of the newspaper reporters, who assisted in the joke, published the whole story the next day, and when I called at the barber shop a bill for $1.75 was presented, which, of course, I could do no less than to pay. The joke went the rounds of the papers; and after a few months, an English friend sent me the whole story in a copy of the London _Family Herald_--a publication that issues about half a million of copies weekly. Mr. Currier, the lithographer, put the joke into pictorial form, representing the Irishman as he appeared before, also as he appeared after the “barbar-ous” operations. After all, it was a good advertisement for me, as well as for Higginson; and it would have been pretty difficult to serve me up about these times in printers’ ink in any form that I should have objected to.
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定位：Additional excerpt 574 · 核对日期：2026-10-19 · 核验：短摘录
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参与玩笑的记者第二天就把整件事登了出来。巴纳姆去理发店时，收到一张1.75美元的账单，他只好付了。笑话传遍报纸，几个月后英国朋友寄来《家庭先驱报》，上面也登了这故事，该报每周发行约五十万份。石版画家柯里尔还把玩笑画成画，画出爱尔兰人理发前后的样子。巴纳姆说，这终究是给他和理发师希金森做了好广告，那时用任何形式把他印上报，他都不反对。这告诉我们：面对无恶意的调侃，与其恼怒，不如看到其中的传播价值，把被动变成主动。
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巴纳姆被理发店恶作剧后，故事被报纸和画片广泛传播，反而成了免费宣传。
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