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Having baked a layer cake of fraud, Frankel sought to add some icing by establishing a charitable trust with connections to the Vatican--the ultimate cover. Through a prominent New York City attorney, Thomas Bolan, Frankel met with Father Peter Jacobs, a gadabout clergyman who has ties to New York luminaries, including Walter Cronkite. Jacobs introduced Frankel to Monsignor Emilio Colagiovanni, a Vatican official. Frankel claimed that his St. Francis of Assisi Foundation would distribute more than $2 billion to Catholic charities. He took to obsessively studying the lives of the saints, almost as avidly as he consulted astrological charts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Missing: One Man, Many Millions | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

...four other boycotted firms include Smathers, Symmington & Herlong and John P. Sears, which have lobbied on behalf of the South African government; Saxe, Bacon & Bolan, which is representing South Africa in a personal injury action; and Shipley, Smoke & Henry, counsel for the Administrator General in Namibia, a South African colony which has been the site of bloody clashes between South African armed forces and Black guerillas...

Author: By Rebecca K. Kramnick, | Title: Law Students Won't Represent Apartheid | 9/25/1985 | See Source »

...missing link could be "poppers," drugs like amyl nitrate and butyl nitrate, which are said to enhance orgasm. More than 85% of the CDC patients admitted to inhaling them. Another possible explanation is the so-called immunologic overload theory, says San Francisco's Dr. Robert Bolan. Homosexuals with many sexual partners often contract numerous venereal diseases, intestinal disruptions (gay bowel syndrome), mononucleosis and other infections, explains Bolan. "This constant, chronic stimulation to their immune system may eventually cause the system to collapse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Opportunistic Diseases | 12/21/1981 | See Source »

...raise $250 million by October of 1984. Less than two years into the five-year capital fund drive, the Harvard Campaign has already coaxed $153.6 million from foundations, corporations and--primarily--individuals. "This campaign is extremely successful. We're underway. We have a head of steam," enthuses Michael T. Bolan, the University's director of planned giving...

Author: By Nancy F. Bauer, | Title: A Painful Tax Break | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

...sign of spring in Baluchistan's provincial capital of Quetta, as sure as the white blossoms bursting in the groves of almond trees, is the procession of caravans making its way up from the south. Through the 60-mile Bolan Pass in the Brahui mountains they come, nomadic families with their camels, sheep, donkeys, the beasts of burden laden with all their possessions. They march by day and camp at sundown while the animals graze on the stony, barren soil. Many will settle around Quetta for the summer: raising sheep, taking day jobs weeding the cultivated fields...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAKISTAN: A Province with Problems | 3/10/1980 | See Source »

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