Word: bostons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Touching down at Boston's Logan Airport in the small hours one morning last week after a flight from New York, American Airlines Flight 116 routinely rolled to the terminal, discharged 62 passengers. Then, in a grim departure from routine, the DC-6-strikebound American's last flight-rolled away to join 194 other planes already grounded indefinitely at airports around the U.S. Unable to reach agreement on a new contract covering its 1,500 American Airlines members, the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Air Line Pilots Association highest salaried and most intensively trained of all U.S. unions, had struck...
...life has become a nervous round of "the U.S. v." walked to the bench, announced a firm "Not guilty." Basis of the charges: 18 instances, during a hearing last summer of the House Special Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight (TIME, July 14 et seq.) in which the 68-year-old Boston millionaire and friend of Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams refused to answer questions about $104,973 in cash withdrawals from his Boston Port Development Co. and East Boston...
...almost the moment that Goldfine was being fingerprinted and bailed out ($1,000) of the capital's Federal Court Building until a March 16 trial, another contempt decision was being logged in Boston. U.S. District Judge Charles Wyzanski Jr. found Goldfine and faithful Secretary Mildred Paperman guilty of criminal contempt (but postponed their sentence) for not turning over complete records of three Goldfine textile companies to an 80-man Internal Revenue task force fine-combing Goldfine's bewildering financial empire for tax fraud. And as though two contempt trials were not enough, a third gets under way this...
...bank he served as cashier-and was gunned down by Jesse James's boys. If the Congregational college's endowment vanished with the Missouri badman, it did not weigh heavily in his saddlebags; at any rate, Carleton-named first for the town of Northfield, later renamed for Boston Benefactor William Carleton-survived...
...Last Hurrah. A brogues' gallery of Boston Irish politicos, headed by Spencer Tracy as lovable, larcenous Mayor Skeffington, who fades out with the kind of bathos that could even dissolve an Ulsterman in tears...