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...were awarded with "palship," Toots's ultimate accolade. He was favored by politicos; Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower had him to the White House, and Jack Kennedy invited him to his inauguration. Every ballplayer worth his mitt got the de luxe, or crumb-bum treatment, and even Bernard Baruch, elder statesman of the stock market ticker, benched down at Shor's now and then. But Toots made no attempt to attract the glossier types of café society. "Who needs ya?" he bellowed cheerily...
...slum kid's Harvard, New York City's tuition-free City College has produced such men as Financier Bernard Baruch and Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. Started 114 years ago, it sparked the founding of six more colleges to form a huge municipal system that now has 91,450 students. By winning the right to grant doctorates, the system this month became "the world's largest university." This week City University installed its first chancellor: John Rutherford Everett, 42, former president of Virginia's little (675 women) Hollins College, who calls his new job "probably...
...Baruch: The Public Years...
...Baruch: The Public Years
...Shirer (1) 2. The Waste Makers, Packard (2) 3. Who Killed Society? Amory (3) 4. The Snake Has All the Lines, Kerr (4) 5. Born Free, Adamson (5) 6. Vanity Fair, ed. by Amory and Bradlee (8) 7. The American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War (9) 8. Baruch: The Public Years (7) 9. The Politics of Upheaval, Schlesinger (6) 10. We Hold These Truths, Murray...