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After he has subdued his shadow, Bernie Baruch shaves himself with an old-fashioned straight razor. Then he climbs into old-fashioned long underwear (winter or summer), high-laced shoes with pull-straps at the back, and the suit his man Lacey has picked...
Afternoons for Work. On the way to his Carlton-Lafayette Park offices, Baruch always shares a cab, always strikes up a conversation, always gives the cabby a dollar...
...takes on the long round of visitors and telephone calls. (It is not unusual for three Administration czars, the White House, a horse owner and a suppliant hostess to phone him, all inside 20 minutes.) The sound of a buzzer, announcing a new caller, is stimulating to Bernie Baruch. He adjusts his hearing device, turns the battery in his vest pocket to full volume, and goes to work. He has a way of making all visitors, even the low liest, feel as if they are doing him a personal favor...
Recently Bernie Baruch had an 8:30 a.m. appointment with a Washington official, talked to him again that midnight. "How can you take it?" the visitor asked. Said Baruch: "As long as there's a German or a Jap left, and a pretty woman to look at, I can stand the pace...
Actually, Baruch now puts in few 16-hour days. Always fond of sleep, he likes better than ever to go to bed early, has an air-conditioning unit in his bedroom to help him drop off. When he has trouble going to sleep he takes a bath, as cold as he can stand it. In the mornings, he some times lolls in striped pajamas and red bathrobe as late...