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Elder Statesman Baruch, finally become an official member of the Administration, did not have to change his working habits. He still drew a salary of nothing a year, which is all he needs. In his new job as consultant to Czar of Czars James F. Byrnes, he still operated from his rainy-day office in a Carlton Hotel suite, from his sunny-day office on a Lafayette Park bench, prodigally dispensing his wisdom, always counseling hope, always sticking to the fundamentals, talking torrentially in a rich mixture of Broadway words and the jargon of high finance. It is this talk...
...Bernie Baruch was in a position where his voice would be heard. His first official act was to sit down and pen a statement...
...Baltimore woman wrote to Bernard Mannes Baruch last week: "I was in a market the other day and a, lot of women were complaining about the OPA and all its rationing rules, and finally the proprietor said: 'Well, I agree with you, but this fellow Baruch has been appointed to a job in Washington and he'll straighten everything...
...Bernie Baruch will not be such a miracle man. No one could be. But that is the kind of confidence, amounting to a fervent faith, that the U.S. has learned to place in Bernie Baruch, multimillionaire stock speculator, brilliant generalissimo of the World War I Industries Board, adviser to five Presidents, and a private citizen who has been a public servant for a quarter of a century...
Mornings for the Biceps. At 72, Bernie Baruch is still eminently fit to serve his country. He holds his 6-ft.-3½-in. frame so erect that he always seems to tower. He weighs only about 20 lb. more than his best fighting weight (175). His clear blue eyes twinkle behind his pince-nez; his lean, patrician face is less wrinkled than the faces of many men 20 years younger; he has a healthy thatch of snow-white hair...