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...85th birthday, Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch was nearly buried by congratulations, including a two-page frappé of well-wishes whipped up by the New York Herald Tribune. Sample message (from Heavyweight Champion Rocky Marciano): "My humble toast to the greatest strength, Wisdom." Baruch himself was patiently holding off newsmen, seeking gems of sagacity. Said he: "To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am." One reporter insistently pressed Baruch for the lowdown on where the world is headed. Grinned the sage of Hobcaw Barony: "I don't know." The reporter expressed amazement. Advised Veteran Pundit...
Jauntily sporting a multicolored, wide-brimmed straw hat, Bernard M. Baruch limped into the White House to chat with President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles about the Big Four Geneva Conference, later refused to discuss the meeting with reporters but talked freely about his battered hip, which he said he had banged against the edge of his swimming pool at his South Carolina estate. How had it happened? "When you are 85," responded Bernie Baruch sagely, "don't try a back flip...
...conflict of interests" is one of Washington's knottiest problems. From World War I, when Senator Kenneth McKellar probed Bernard Baruch's dollar-a-year men, to the Korean war, when Congressman Emanuel Celler investigated "Electric Charlie" Wilson's WOCs, the relations of the legislators to businessmen in Government has been marked by suspicion. Through five emergencies, including two world wars, some legislators have been unable to satisfy themselves completely that the Government, in taking advantage of the skills of businessmen, was not being short-changed somehow...
This sense of detail is the cornerstone of a distinctive philosophic method to which Wolfson brings, in the words of a colleague, "the instinct of a great detective." In every philosopher, Wolfson contends, there are two important men. In Spinoza, for example, there is Benedictus and Baruch. Benedictus is Spinoza the writer, the explicit man. Baruch, on the other hand, is the implicit Spinoza, the man on whom Benedictus ultimately depends, and through whom he may be understood...
...search for Baruch has meant for Wolfson a search for the connotations of philosophic terms. His method has been to follow out the genealogy of a term in past writers to get at its inner meaning to the philosopher he is studying. From these assembled clues he has built up solutions to complex philosophic problems, while at the same time his method has led him inevitably to wider and wider circles of philosophic inquiry. One thinker has always led him to the next. "You can't isolate," he says, summing up his own experience, "a problem, a person...