Word: coit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...BARUCH (784 pp.)-Margaret L. Coit-Houghton Mifflin...
Pulitzer Prizewinning Biographer Margaret Coit (John C. Calhoun) has entered the supply-and-demand cycle of Baruch books at the critical phase where supply becomes glut. The truth is that the wily old (87) speculator has cornered the market with Baruch: My Own Story (TIME, Aug. ig), which has a grip on the No. 1 nonfiction spot of national bestseller lists. The first half of Mr. Baruch (Book-of-the-Month Club choice for December) is a blurred carbon copy of Baruch's own book, concerned mainly with his South Carolina boyhood and his stock market coups. Biographer Coit...
Biographer Coit tells in full and flattering detail the nature of Baruch's services to the U.S. from his days as "czar"' of Woodrow Wilson's War Industries Board to the days when he presented to the U.N. the U.S.'s "Baruch Plan" for control of atomic energy. She also uses Baruch as a peg on which to hang gratuitous, chapter-length histories of Woodrow Wilson's Administration, World Wars I and II. the Roaring Twenties, the Depression, etc. Standing at the cribside of modern history, Author Coit is footnotoriously conscientious...
Died. Arthur Brown Jr., 83, topflight architect, longtime official consultant on architectural work in Washington, D.C., who served as chairman of the architectural commission for the Golden Gate International Exposition (1939-40), designed San Francisco's City Hall, Opera House and Coit Memorial Tower (atop Telegraph Hill); in Burlingame, Calif...
Right from the start, the rumpled-look-ing graduate student from Vermont made a deep impression on President Daniel Coit Gilman of Johns Hopkins University. But President Gilman did think that the young man was off on a wrong track. "Don't be so bookish," Gilman thundered. "Get out and see more people." Student John Dewey listened politely to his president, and then ignored the advice. He had long since made up his mind that he would keep right on studying: his ambition in life was to become a philosopher...