Word: bostons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Complained that "this whole miserable massacre of character'' resulted from the vengeful attitude of John Fox, former publisher of the defunct Boston Post (TIME, July 7)-and all because Goldfine had demanded payment from Fox of a legal debt. Said Goldnne: "It's not pleasant to have to talk about Mr. Fox because he seems like a sick man to me. He's crazy like...
...Recalled telling Adams in late 1955 or early 1956 that his real estate holding company, the East Boston Co., was "really being picked on" by the Securities and Exchange Commission, but denied that SEC pressure lessened as a result. Goldfine denied flatly and specifically that Sherman Adams had ever got him favorable treatment from Government agencies: "Mr. Chairman, I think you know Governor Adams is not that kind of man. And neither...
...brief three or four days after Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams' dealings with Boston Operator Bernard Goldfine were first brought to light, President Eisenhower had a chance to accept or demand Adams' resignation and preserve the "hound's tooth" moral standards of his Administration. But he decided to keep New Hampshire-Man Adams principally for reasons of convenience: "I need him" (TIME, June 30). By this week the cost of convenience had risen prohibitively high...
...basic facts and figures of Goldfine's cobrful life and complex business dealings were assembled by Boston Lawyer Lawrence Cohen and New York Lawyer Lester Lazarus, both Goldfine regulars. The information was polished in statement form by 1) Boston Lawyer Samuel Sears, dropped in 1954 as counsel to the Senate subcommittee investigating the Army-McCarthy fracas after it was discovered that he had made statements highly favorable to McCarthy, and 2) Washington's Robb. attorney for ousted Air Force Secretary Harold Talbott, for ousted Federal Communications Commissioner Richard Mack, and Government attorney in the successful 1954 ouster action...
First off, onto the scene hove Tex McCrary, husband of sometime Actress-Model Jinx Falkenburg, and a money-making operator who shrewdly combines his TV-radio work with his publicity business. Tex already had sent one of his vice presidents, William Safire, to Boston for a three-hour interview with Goldfine to get "the feel" of his personality. In Washington, McCrary allowed that as an old Sherman Adams friend he had come at the beck of Lawyer Robb to help Goldfine on a basis of "no expenses, no fee - for free...