Word: bernards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...midweek TIME's Boston bureau got the word to be on the lookout for a man named Bernard Goldfine, a textile industrialist whose name had suddenly been linked to White House Staff Boss Sherman Adams. TIME-LIFE Correspondents Murray Gart and Wilbur Jarvis set to work, telephoning town after town in New England, searching for the elusive Goldfine (neither his home nor his office admitted to his whereabouts). Once they found a man named Goldfine, but it was Bernard's son Horace. He did not know where his father was, either. That evening TIME-LIFE Correspondent Ken Froslid...
While other Boston newsmen still searched, Bernard Goldfine turned up in Chestnut Hill, invited the TIME-LIFE crew in for a detailed 3½-hr. interview, nightcapped it with a Scotch and water. At 3 a.m., Correspondents Jarvis and Gart got back to their office and started a stream of file copy to the Manhattan editors that ended a full twelve hours later. By that time, much-sought Bernard Goldfine had once again retreated, apparently into thin air, and at week's end was still the object of search by Boston's harried newsmen. For the story...
...dozen occasions between 1955 and May 1958, members of the Adams family stayed at the Sheraton Plaza and racked up total board and food tabs of nearly $2,000. The bills, the investigators found, were paid in full by a millionaire Boston textile manufacturer and real estate man named Bernard Goldfine...
...Adams and I have known Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Goldfine for well over 15 years," he wrote. "We have entertained them in our home, and they have entertained us in theirs. We have had a close personal relationship...
Into the public eye last week swam a wealthy, aggressive Bostonian whose fortune brought friends, and whose friends brought him unexpected fame. His name: Bernard Goldfine, 67, textile and real estate tycoon...