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...always been eventful. Born on Manhattan's Lower East Side, the son of a man "who, when people were doing passementerie, he handled fringe," Billy made the high-school track team by learning to jump the gun without detection, became a shorthand whiz and stenographer for Barney Baruch ("Baruch is still the only idol in my book"). But he aimed far higher, precipitantly invaded Tin Pan Alley. There, writing the lyrics for such song hits as Barney Google, Million Dollar Baby, Rainbow Round My Shoulder, he was soon making as much as $60,000 a year...
...house is virtually his office, and a dressing gown his usual business suit. "Billy," commented a friend, "probably spends more time in his bedroom than any other well person." The house is also the scene of dinner parties which are "cast as carefully" as his shows and which star Baruch, George S. Kaufman, Moss Hart, Cole Porter...
...President made little news, but his schedule of visitors was the most pack-jammed in many a week: admirals, generals, senators, congressmen, foreign envoys, plain citizens like Bernard Baruch, Henry Kaiser. He kept newsmen in suspense on the date and place of the upcoming meeting of the Big Three. Would he accept General de Gaulle's invitation to Paris? Perhaps, some day, when he had more time...
...about my college career the better"), Irene Castle and Adolphe Menjou ("I have never up to the present been a waiter in real life"), H. G. Wells and Billy Rose ("I would rather be labeled 'dwarfish' than not be mentioned in your splendid magazine at all") - Bernard Baruch and Franklin Roosevelt, Walter Winchell, Rudy Vallee, Robert L. Ripley, Harold Ickes, Bing Crosby, Walter Lippmann, Bob Hope, Henry Wallace, William Saroyan, Edgar Bergen, Admiral Nimitz, Ernie Pyle, Salvador Dali, Elmer Davis, Thomas Mann...
Will Clayton was not alone in this view: Jimmy Byrnes was dead-set against the three-man board, and Elder Statesman Bernie Baruch had personally phoned Congressmen, begging them to drop it. Georgia's Senator Walter George called the bill almost impossible to administer. New York's bell-shaped Mayor LaGuardia nut-shelled all the complaints; he told a Senate committee that the bill could be fixed by "one little amendment. Strike out every thing after the enacting clause...