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...recent European jaunt, said Bernard Baruch, he had spent two days visiting Old Friend Winston Churchill, who "talks about nothing but horses. He can't hear any better than I can, but he won't wear an ear machine." Another conversation was reported by James Eldridge of the American Association for the United Nations, just back in Chicago from London. Curious to know what political party Churchill would have chosen had he been an American, Eldridge dropped a leading remark: "I believe you're Tory enough that you'd be a Midwest Republican." "Well," answered Churchill...
...justified, and the U.S. is not in World War III by 1953; the nation's taxpayers will be grateful for such economy; if the planners are wrong, the U.S. will be disastrously half-ready. It is a massive gamble, which only a few men like Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch boldly criticize: he, almost alone, would go all-out on production now; the rest mutter and have misgivings, but go along...
There were speakers, a medal from the state of Virginia and a full-dress parade by V.M.I.'s 770 cadets, resplendent in black shakos, grey tailcoats and white ducks. Then Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch rose to dedicate the George Catlett Marshall Arch, a new sally port leading into the new quadrangle at the center of the V.M.I. post...
...Miami, Walter Winchell announced his new super-award plan for the best work in the fields of theater, screen, literature, radio and television. Title: the "Annual Damon Runyon Awards." First member of the board of judges so far named: Bernard Baruch...
Nostalgic Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch, 80, class of 1884, turned up for the diamond jubilee exercises of Manhattan's Public School 69. For his free pencils, books and early education, said the Old Grad, "I owe an obligation to the City of New York, and I hope to repay it . . . Teachers, lay and religious, do the most for the community, and are the least recognized and the least paid...