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Bernard M. Baruch was a millionaire at 30, a celebrated national figure at 50, and-as park-bench philosopher, adviser to Presidents and reaper of honors-a legend by the time he was 70. As with most legends, this one was somewhat larger than life, a fact that Baruch himself wryly recognized, but behind it, nevertheless, was a most remarkable man. Last week, two months before he would have turned 95, Bernard Baruch died in Manhattan of a heart attack...
...Year. Baruch was born in Camden, S.C., the son of a German-Jewish immigrant who became a Confederate Army surgeon, and of a mother descended from Portuguese-Spanish Jews who had settled in the U.S. in the 17th century. When Bernard was ten, his father moved the family to New York City, became physician to such eminent families as the Guggenheims. Bernard graduated from New York's City College at 19, also became an enthusiastic boxer who ever after took enormous pride in his well-muscled, 6-ft. 3-in. physique; well into his 70s, he worked out with...
Adhering steadfastly to that law, Baruch quickly made a fortune on Wall Street. "I am a speculator, and I make no apologies for it," he said. "The word comes from the Latin speculari -to observe. I observe." So carefully did he observe that he was able to write in his two-volume autobiography, "At 32, I had $100,000 for every year of my age, and I had it in cash...
...exemplary leadership"; Yachtsman Olin Stephens, 56, designer of Constellation, which defended the America's Cup for the U.S. last summer, winner of the Nathaniel G. Herreshoff Trophy of the North American Yacht Racing Union; General Lyman Lemnitzer, 65, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, awarded the Bernard Baruch Medal by the U.S. Veterans of Foreign Wars; Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, 66, given a plaque by the Camp Fire Club of America, at the Tavern-on-the-Green in Manhattan's Central Park...
Charles Boyer is 65, having reached retirement age at the end of August, and he has accepted it in much the same way that Maurice Chevalier did eleven years ago, Albert Schweitzer 24 years ago, Jack Benny five years ago, and Bernard Baruch...