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This may have been phrenology's finest hour. Bernard Baruch rose to become a wizard of Wall Street, a philanthropist, sportsman, landed squire, patriot, "adviser to Presidents," park-bench sage, and above all, a continuing American legend. Timed to appear on his 87th birthday, this first volume of his autobiography tells only half the Baruch story, barely reaching his World War I stint as czar of the War Industries Board (a companion volume in the fall of '58 will bring the saga up to date). The book packs no surprises, but in its engaging, unpretentious...
...mingle with the right people in the right places-the Stork Club, El Morocco ,"21." She was a LIFE cover girl; the tabloids called her "the 1948 season's golden girl." Soon all the dreams came true: Joanne became engaged (after four proposals) to lanky British Millionheir Sportsman Robert Sweeny, 37, California-born wartime R.A.F. hero, onetime (1937) British amateur golf champion. Said the golden girl: "We're both so idealistic and romantic. We want everything just perfect...
...plugs with small propellers, plugs with built-in batteries and small flashlight eyes, plugs with odorous oils supposedly tantalizing to fish, plugs with a hole for Seltzer tablets that leave a trail of attractive bubbles along the bottom. "At one time," said Instructor Henry Lyman, publisher of Salt Water Sportsman, "someone discovered that bluefish would strike at the shankbone of an alley cat. For years when the blues were biting, you couldn't find a live cat in town. There are even lures out now with built-in fish calls. Or you can remove the dorsal fin from...
Citation: "It was your remarkable ability as a sportsman and your remarkable self-control as a man which has popularized and strengthened beyond measure our deepest American faith: our faith in the open door of equal opportunity for every human being...
...English love a poisoner. When he is a doctor and a sporting man at that, they dote on him. They nearly made a national festival of it when, 100 years ago, Dr. William Palmer of Rugeley died a sportsman and a poisoner to his fingertips. On June 14, 1856, a crowd of 30,000 jostled and bargained for a good view of the scaffold outside Stafford Gaol, miners caroused in the taverns, and when Palmer died without a struggle, they cried, "Cheat! Twister!", for they had come to see him kick at the end of the rope. Britain...