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...BARUCH: MY OWN STORY (337 pp.)-Bernard M. Baruch-Henry Holt...
When Bernard Baruch was ten, his mother took him to a phrenologist, one of the highly regarded head candlers of that day (1880). After palpating the bulges over the boy's eyebrows, the phrenologist turned to Mamma Baruch and asked: "And what do you propose to do with this young man?" Baruch's mother replied: "I am thinking of making him a doctor." "He will make a good doctor," the phrenologist agreed, "but my advice to you is to take him where they are doing big things-finance or politics...
While the United States, after World War II, moved rapidly to effect international control of atomic resources and research under the Baruch Plan, the Russians, fearful of their nuclear disadvantage, made proposals only in the field of conventional arms. At the same time that they rushed a program of nuclear development and stock-piling, they waged an intensive propaganda campaign to "ban the bomb." In 1950 they still insisted on the unconditional ban on nuclear weapons, but coupled it with a request for simultaneous international control. When in 1955, retaliatory power matched our own, Russia shifted in 1955 to efforts...
...taken to New York at the age of two, Analyst Lubell did not turn to his specialty until he had already carved out a career as newsman, free-lance magazine writer and Government planner. In World War II he served as right-hand man to Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch, who credited him with "doing all the work" on the survey that formed national policy on rubber production. In 1948 the Saturday Evening Post assigned him to do a post-mortem on the election upset. The result led him to a Guggenheim fellowship that financed a two-year study of election...
...general a squirrel-head (TIME, June 4). He acted as Father of the Bride with gracious dignity, and the entire nation shared his pride and his sadness. He wrote his memoirs and delighted in being called a liar by Douglas MacArthur and Jimmy Byrnes and Henry Wallace and Bernard Baruch and Pat Hurley and Francis Biddle. He also stayed up to his eyeglasses in politics...