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...Lampoon, not content with having led John Reed and Bernard Baruch through their Harvard careers, is in the process of opening its doors to women, Maybe...
...Japan had forthwith surrendered, how different would have been the shape and mood of the postwar world? The framers of the Franck Report argued that international control of nuclear armaments-such as later suggested in the Baruch Plan before the U.N. in 1946-would have been much easier to achieve, and the argument seems tenable. A humane precedent would have been set, and the U.S. would have established a standard of trustworthiness even among those who had no will to give it trust, just as later, with the Marshall Plan, it would earn a reputation for generosity even among...
...reactions, like that of true love, does not run smooth." It is reassuring to learn that, at 15, the future president of Harvard, then a Roxbury Latin schoolboy, could not even spell supper or business. And he does not spare himself an occasional joke at his own expense. Bernard Baruch, meeting him in 1942 at Washington's Carlton Hotel to begin work on a synthetic-rubber study, surveyed Conant's fox face and spartan, wire-rimmed glasses and instantly announced: "Well, you're not much to look at-that's certain." When an unexpected rainstorm drenched...
...many of the 6,000 mergers announced last year was to treat the combination as a pooling of interests. In effect, the accounts of two firms that merged were treated as if they had always been one. Abraham Briloff, professor of accountancy at Manhattan's Bernard M. Baruch College, compares the technique to bikini bathing suits. "What they reveal is interesting," he says, "but what they conceal is vital...
Perennial Presidential Adviser Bernard Baruch: His "commanding characteristic, apart from his undoubted shrewdness, is his vanity, an amiable weakness upon which the politicians of his party have frequently endeavored to play...