Word: bernard
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...Bernard M. Baruch was a millionaire at 30, a celebrated national figure at 50, and-as park-bench philosopher, adviser to Presidents and reaper of honors-a legend by the time he was 70. As with most legends, this one was somewhat larger than life, a fact that Baruch himself wryly recognized, but behind it, nevertheless, was a most remarkable man. Last week, two months before he would have turned 95, Bernard Baruch died in Manhattan of a heart attack...
...Year. Baruch was born in Camden, S.C., the son of a German-Jewish immigrant who became a Confederate Army surgeon, and of a mother descended from Portuguese-Spanish Jews who had settled in the U.S. in the 17th century. When Bernard was ten, his father moved the family to New York City, became physician to such eminent families as the Guggenheims. Bernard graduated from New York's City College at 19, also became an enthusiastic boxer who ever after took enormous pride in his well-muscled, 6-ft. 3-in. physique; well into his 70s, he worked out with...
...BERNARD VONNEGUT Cambridge, Mass...
...Press on its front page every morning. The big issue in 1937-1938 and in the following two years was America's role in the world conflict that seemed more and more inevitable. A debate be between isolationist Republican Rep. Hamilton Fish '10 and Farmer-Labor Rep. John T. Bernard, who favored collective security, drew a large crowd. Malcolm R. Wilkey '40, just returned from a trip to the Far East, warned in a CRIMSON article that Japan's quarrel with China was far more serious than generally believed...
Twenty residents of the nation's intellectual community promptly rushed forth in public support of Lowell. Among them were Novelists Mary McCarthy, Philip Roth and Bernard Malamud; Critics Alfred Kazin and Dwight Macdonald; Poets John Berryman, W. D. Snodgrass and Alan Dugan. None of them had been invited to the White House, but that didn't make any difference...