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It was a long time after that that I became aware that Baruch was a Jew. He never joined any of the Jewish groups. He never was put on civic committees so that there might be a Jew on the committee. If they needed a Jew on the committee, even if Baruch was on it, they went and got another Jew to represent the Jews. He never had that rating. His family were Christians. His wife certainly was, though I'm not sure about his children. His daughter, Belle, went to the best schools in New York. However, Miss Coit tells me that Belle was turned down at some school and that has rankled Baruch ever since. Some school wouldn't accept her and he believed it was a Jewish prejudice. She says he's sensitive about it. I wouldn't have supposed he was. I thought that if ever anybody was completely free of any sense of inferiority about being a Jew, it was Bernie Baruch. He's a Son of the American Revolution. His people were pre- Revolutionary settlers. He didn't grow up in a Jewish community, but in South Carolina where there wasn't a Jewish community. He grew up with everybody else. There was no separateness.

It's just like in the State of Maine - nobody would ever know that someone else was a Jew. There was a Jew down there who died last year. He was the fruit peddler. He was an awfully nice man who peddled fruit for years. His