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...close friends temper this estimate. Bernard Baruch, who has known Billy for 30 years, says solemnly: "This man, small in stature, is big and broad and fine in his viewpoints." Author Ben Hecht admits that "Billy has a genius for not making friends" and is "as wistful as a meat ax"; but he is also "a kind of frustrated poet . . . a kind of slum poet and Jack the Ripper rolled into...
...Billy was out of the slums. When the U.S. went to war, he went to work for Bernard Baruch's War Industries Board at $1,800 a year. After a week on the job, Billy asked for and got the job of organizing the Board's stenographic service. Soon he began spending nights at Baruch's house, taking dictation from the great man himself. The year in Washington was decisive for Billy's career. "I saw big men, the big tories, if you will, but big men, too. They talked tough, but they talked from information...
When the war ended, Billy "went on the bum, mostly because I wanted to find a way to the top." He found that way six months later, back in New York. One night in a Manhattan delicatessen, he met some songwriters. After Baruch, they looked to Billy like "a buncha dumb-heads"-until somebody told him they made 40 and 50 grand a year. "Just like that," says Rose, "I decided that this was the grift...
...still another entertainment factory, the Billy Rose Music Hall, before he and the Beer Gang "separated" in 1934. In parting, Billy rashly gave a piece of his mind to some of the boys. To keep Billy from (as Billy said) "being built into the East River Drive," Friend Bernard Baruch called in the FBI. Billy named names, and the G-men had a word with all of them. Billy had found another equalizer...
...annual award for distinguished service to the community. Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder and C.I.O. President Phil Murray got Medals for Merit for their war work. And Harvard's President James B. Conant was awarded an honorary degree by the University of Illinois. Bernard Baruch passed the entire week without getting an award of any sort. Ethel Barry more still hard at work, may or may not have been 100% pleased by the tribute Manhattan paid her in a parade of floats honoring great women. Ethel found herself in the company of Susan B. Anthony...