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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...
...Stewart's morass of words and symbols might have helped the Advocate more than the Lampoon. Brust's unhappy tale of the decadent South will manage to offend all of Harvard's geographical distribution who chance to read it. And Hawkins' pilgrimage through the bargain basement universe will confirm Bostonian suspicions that Harvard Yard should be a separate state...
...stock interests in Armour and other companies. But when Cousin Fred died at 93 in 1953, he did not leave Billy a cent in cash. Instead, he turned over his estate* (annual net before taxes: above $5.000,000) to Billy to run as its salaried co-trustee with Bostonian James F. Donovan, an old business associate. Billy earns upwards of $200,000 yearly...
...Taos (pop. 1,815), whose delirious typography and dissonant trio of editorial voices more often suggest the dawn of anarchy. Fondly known to its 2,505 subscribers as "El Creeps," the paper was started in 1835 by a Mexican priest. Today it still has an unusual publisher-editor: wealthy Bostonian Edward Clark Cabot...
...serene, twinkle-eyed little Bostonian, Lincoln Filene was already busily at work in a haberdashery founded by his father, a Prussian immigrant tailor, by the time he was ten, and he never had another job. In 1891 he took over the business with his brother, and promptly set out to prove a new idea for U.S. retailers. "If we were to create contentment in front of the counter," he said, "we had first to create contentment behind...