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...your "Background for War" issue, p. 28, you say "Speculator Baruch himself headed the War Industries Board which fixed the prices." Whatever you may call me, that I or the board over which I presided fixed the prices is not true...
...Baruch's Biceps...
Sirs: Friday evening I read TIME'S characterization, "aging, ailing Financier Bernard Mannes Baruch" [TIME, Aug. 21]. Saturday afternoon I met Mr. Baruch in the park of Saratoga Spa (where he has been for the past three weeks), gay over his physicians' discharge of him as completely cured of the mastoiditis that attacked him four months ago, looking fitter than I have ever seen him in all the years I have known him, declaring that he "felt, and was, better" than he had been in ten years. He flexed his arm, and his biceps were hard...
...BEAZELL Forest Hills, N. Y. P.S. Mr. Baruch was 69 on Saturday [Aug. 19]. >Great is TIME'S delight to learn that Bernard Mannes Baruch, hard-muscled, young-hearted, feels and looks like a Champion again...
...ingeniously sticking his pen through a potato, he became a demonstrator for the Gregg shorthand system. His specialty was taking notes with both hands from a phonograph chattering 350 words a minute. This inhuman proficiency took him to Washington, aged 18, as organizer of the stenographic force for Bernard Baruch's War Industries Board, where he had occasion to record the thoughts of such dignitaries as J. P. Morgan and the late Judge Elbert H. Gary...