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Over their combined administrations, the school has modestly refrained from boasting of its achievements. But there are few people today who will hesitate to grant it first place in its field. A fitting tribute comes from the Dean of the Bernard M. Baruch School of Business and Public Administration at C.C.N.Y. Dean Thomas L. Norton writes...
Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch, 82, continued to prove that age is not a bar to the full life. He struck a Greek-god pose (in a bathing suit) before displaying his diving and swimming skills to news photographers. He also celebrated the publication of his own summing up, A Philosophy for Our Time, a series of four sage lectures on 20th century democracy and capitalism, delivered earlier at his alma mater, the City College of New York. Baruch's central idea: "We in America have sought our goal of equality for all not by pulling everyone down...
...With the judgment of the angels and of the saints we excommunicate, cut off, curse and anathematize Baruch de Spinoza . . . in the presence of the Holy Books, by the 613 precepts which are written therein, with the anathema wherewith Joshua cursed Jericho, with the curse which Elisha laid upon the children, and with all the curses which are written in the Law. Cursed be he by day, and cursed be he by night. Cursed be he in sleeping, and cursed be he in waking . . . And we warn you, there shall no man speak to him, no man write...
Eldest U.S. elder statesman, Bernard Baruch, 83, who was first tapped for White House advice (by President Wilson) when Dwight Eisenhower was a first lieutenant, dropped in at the presidential mansion for lunch and came out properly discreet. A reporter, trying a circuitous approach, asked Financier Baruch about the state of the economy. Replied he quickly: "I think I'll keep quiet about that." Then, seeing that such silence might be interpreted as a prophecy of doom, he hastily covered himself: "That doesn't mean I think it's bad." Striding on, Baruch had another afterthought. Pausing...
Holton began his talk by stating there is little chance for world peace if there is no Baruch plan, and that hopes for such a plan being enacted now are slim...