MR. BARUCH (784 pp.)—Margaret L. Coit—Houghton Mifflin ($7.50). Pulitzer Prizewinning Biographer Margaret Coit (John C. Calhoun) has entered the supply-and-demand cycle of Baruch books at the critical ...
BARUCH: MY OWN STORY (337 pp.)—Bernard M. Baruch—Henry Holt ($5). When Bernard Baruch was ten, his mother took him to a phrenologist, one of the highly regarded head candlers of that day (1880). After ...
BERNARD BARUCH made his first millions before the automobile arrived to change the American scene, and he has lived to see the possibility that man may destroy himself in nuclear holocaust. Baruch is ...