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...idiosyncrasy to which Baruch feels entitled is dinner on the dot at 7:30. If guests are late, he starts to eat by himself. He seldom goes to Washington parties. "They sit around drinking cocktails when I want to eat." he growls...
Weekends for Home. On weekends, Baruch goes back to his home at 1055 Fifth Avenue, a regal Manhattan brownstone. This five-story house, which Baruch has owned for 17 years, is a composite of his cosmopolitan tastes...
...Baruch's blue-&-gold sitting room stand autographed photographs of Orlando, Clemenceau, Lloyd George and Wilson at Versailles; another Versailles picture of Louis Loucheur, Lloyd George and Baruch, with Winston Churchill standing behind, like the freshman he was; of Clemenceau in 1922; of William Gibbs McAdoo; Cordell Hull; Lord Cecil; the War Industries Board...
...Saturdays in New York Baruch still likes to go to the races-as he did last fortnight, with his close friend, Herbert Bayard Swope, to watch the Carter Handicap, once won by his colt Happy Argo. But he has given up his big Kershaw Stable and now makes only "nominal" .bets...
...fights, and swears he could tell, from the way Joe Louis was sweating the night he entered the ring against Billy Conn, that the champion was in poor shape and would have trouble winning. And he correctly guessed that Joe Louis would torpedo Lou Nova in the sixth round. Baruch watches all human affairs with his speculator's eye, studying the form, trying to guess the result. And when he is sure, he plunges, with the audacity and icy conviction of a big-time speculator...