Mr. White, who in the 1920s founded L.N. White & Co., the import-export firm where my father became a principal, had a photo on his desk of a distinguished-looking gentleman. I assumed it was Mr. White’s father, but when I said so, my father was taken aback. “Bernard Baruch,” he said. The financier and statesman had long known White’s family on Long Island. The founder’s wife, Mary, as a young woman practiced driving in one of Baruch’s cars—and crashed it. When informed, Baruch sternly said... Читать дальше...