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...administrator, president of the Ford Foundation and director of the U.N.'s Special Fund; and Anna Marie Rosenberg, 60, onetime Assistant Secretary of Defense who is now head of her own public relations firm; both for the second time; in Manhattan. Some 50 old friends, among them Bernard Baruch, were on hand at All Souls Unitarian Church to hear the trembling bride repeat her vows and Hoffman beam: "At least 200 people have told me how wonderful Anna is, and anyone who wants to say how wonderful she is can say it again. I love to hear...
Died. Sailing Wolfe Baruch. 88, retired stockbroker who. with Brother Bernard M. Baruch, hired a locomotive on the Fourth of July 1898. steamed from the Jersey shore into holiday-forsaken Manhattan to cable huge buy orders to the London Stock Exchange on news of the great U.S. naval victory off Cuba in the Spanish-American War, a victory that, as they expected, touched off a great buying spree on Wall Street next day. skyrocketing prices in the U.S. stocks that the Baruchs had bought at low prices in London while others were too busy celebrating; after a long illness...
...that is not only unAmerican, it is un-Chinese." But the old, pure, wonderfully hammy love for all humanity is lacking. And there is a new note of peevishness. Herewith, a list, probably incomplete, of Saroyan's pet hates: actors, Sherwood Anderson (in his later years), bankers, Bernard Baruch, bestsellers, great men, school principals, insurance policyholders, lawyers, Mount Rushmore, New Yorkers, playwrights (Saroyan excluded), psychiatrists, Shakespeare (not altogether), Shaw (ditto), tapioca, teachers, the world...
Despite these outbursts against the United States, Russell seldom receved praise from the Kremlin. Moscow radio once called him "this philosophical wolf, whose dinner jacket conceals all the brutal instincts of a beast." This blast greeted his advocacy of the Baruch Proposal, the American scheme for internationalizing all nuclear armaments. In Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare (1959) he remarks, "I thought, at the time, that it would be worth while to bring pressure to bear upon Russia and even, if necessary, to go so far as to threaten war on the sole issue of the internationalizing of atomic weapons...
...willingness to grant concessions to the Soviets has made him seem all the pinker to Americans. Yet his stand on the Baruch Proposal should absolve him; his current outlook may be wrong, but it cannot justly be called anti-western. Moreover, the uncanny accuracy of his previous prognostications should haunt his opponents. Russell simply does not deserve casual disregard...