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...Baruch is immune to panic and impervious to hot-flush enthusiasm, a stranger to mercurial emotions, remorseless in decision. Henderson is a walking panic, either marrow-frozen or running a death-watch fever, and is given to so many enthusiasms at once that he looks like the last 30 seconds of a Japanese tumbling...
History brought the Messrs. Baruch and Henderson together. One had made it; the other has read it, and now will have to make some himself...
...Baruch was a speculator and a creative investor who amassed enormous wealth outside of industry, who went to help his Government in time of need, and has made a later career as an adviser to five Presidents, an economic Nestor, a sage of war planning. Henderson was a research-foundation economist who has refused repeated offers to turn an honest business dollar, who has always felt his Government needed him, and has proved it. Both have a startling ability to deduce facts from figures, the event from the process. Each likes and respects the other...
...Baruch can be powerfully simple and direct, but he is a person of extraordinary sophistication, a master of charmingly indirect talk which suddenly opens to leave an inference the size of a bomb crater. He has spent a great part of his years holding his tongue. Henderson is a great babbler who wakes up sounding his "A" and holds it all day, roaring through his work in a rich torrent of cuss words, grunts and bellows, like a bull of Bashan...
Henderson's Lesson. The first lesson of history is to read it. That Leon Henderson has done. Bernard Baruch is a man of peace, but of the 1918 U.S. economic effort, which Baruch managed, Field Marshal von Hindenburg wrote: "Her brilliant, if pitiless, war industry had entered the service of patriotism and had not failed it. ... They understood...