Word: bernards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eden had been allowed to cut Nasser down to size at Suez, our newspapers would still be front-paging Bernard Goldfine instead of Marine landings in Lebanon...
Died. William Oberhardt, 75, charcoal portraitist of distinguished sitters, including Dwight D. Eisenhower, Herbert Hoover, Warren G. Harding, Richard M. Nixon. Cardinal Spellman, Bernard Baruch, John Foster Dulles, William Howard Taft, Charles Dana Gibson, Luther Burbank, Thomas A. Edison; of a heart attack; in Pelham, N.Y. "Obie" Oberhardt's portrait of the late Joseph G. ("Uncle Joe") Cannon, onetime (1903-11) Speaker of the House of Representatives, appeared on TIME'S first cover, March 3, 1923. Drawing VIPs one after another in one-hour sessions, Oberhardt learned to control his awed nerves by recalling the dry advice...
...Chorus. Other pieces are excerpts from Purcell's "Come Ye Sons of Art Away," Brahms' "Tafellied," Palestrina's "Surgere Amica Mea," Mozart's Cantata K. 108 "Regina Coeli," Vaughan Williams' "In Windsor Forest," and the complete performance of Monteverdi's madrigal, "Hor Ch'el Ciel." Accompanists will be Bernard Kreger '59 and James Armstrong...
Washington's Evening Star reported one day last week that Boston Big Shot Bernard Goldfine paid posh Burning Tree Club, where White House staffers golf, for the expensive set of Spalding clubs used by Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams. White House Press Secretary James Hagerty efficiently checked with Boss Adams, quickly assured reporters that the whole thing was a false alarm. Sure, Adams got the clubs for nothing, but not from his "old and dear friend" Goldfine, donor of the vicuña coat and the $2,400 Oriental rug. The club-giver turned out to be a Massachusetts theater...
...general counsel into the office of New Hampshire Senator Styles Bridges to put in a good word for Goldfine. Also present: Goldfine's old and great friend, Maine's Republican Senator Fred Payne. Payne has admitted receiving vicuna coats and hotel hospitality from Bernard Goldfine. And last week to a TIME reporter he confirmed a rumor that had received considerable currency around Washington: in 1952, Goldfine had advanced Payne $3,500 of the $5.000 needed for down payment on the purchase of Payne's $22,500 home in Hillcrest Heights, Md. The $3,500 came...