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...Chairs. Nobody could quarrel with Billy's replacements, if they could be had. "To the left of the chairman sits Arturo Toscanini . . . [then] Bernard M. Baruch ... as financial adviser . . . Around the big mahogany table are opera experts like [the Berkshire Festival's] Boris Goldovsky and [Manhattan's City Opera boss] Laszlo Halasz, theater men like Oscar Hammerstein II and Robert Edmond Jones." Others: Stage Directors Elia Kazan, Jose Ferrer, Rouben Mamoulian; Choreographers Agnes de Mille, Antony Tudor, Jerome Robbins. "Who would sit in the 37th [he meant the 38th] chair...
...distinguished for moral courage. In 1934, when his Agriculture Department was purged of a group of leftists, he made a brief protest and then sat silently by. Some of the victims were his close associates.When he made charges unsubstantiated by fact against the atomic-energy policy of Bernard Baruch, he first promised Baruch a retraction, then vanished ignominiously. In crises he is apt to be simply in absentia. If his hodgepodge party breaks up he may stay with it officially but spiritually go elsewhere...
...Bernard Baruch, who had acquired hardly any new honors in recent weeks, informed a Manhattan society .columnist of something rather flattering that Mary Churchill, Winston's youngest, had told him recently: when she was little she had wondered what God looked like; then she had met Baruch...
Betty herself wore pink. Her dress was studded with sequins; her hat was large and sprouted six ostrich plumes. A young gallant brought his mother over to see her. "I've always wanted to meet you," said the young gallant's mother. "My father, who was Barney Baruch's younger brother, was madly in love with you when you were on the stage." Piped young Talbot: "That's nothing. My grandfather had a crush on you, too." Replied Betty: "I remember him well. He and I were having a beer at Delmonico's the night...
...Chosen to administer ERP through the Economic Cooperation Administration, was: 1. Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch. 2. Defense Secretary James Forrestal. 3. General Electric President Charles Wilson. 4. Herbert Hoover. 5. Studebaker President Paul Hoffman...