Word: bostons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...always supported my friends as I could within my means." A sample of how hard he would work for "one of my very dear friends" came in the Massachusetts gubernatorial campaign of 1952. when Democratic Incumbent Paul A. Dever ("May God rest his soul") was being attacked by the Boston Post. Goldfine's simple effort: he extended a $400,000 line of credit to the paper's owner, capricious Boy Wonder John Fox, on condition that the Post make a last-minute switch to support Dever. (It did, but Dever lost anyway.) "I regarded it as a favor...
...Swim. Eccentric Bernard Goldfine gets up late, drives around Boston in one of his two chauffeured black Cadillacs and constantly calls on the radiotelephone to the loyal women workers at his garment-district office with the false alarm that he will be there any minute. They know better, do not expect him until 6 p.m. when he usually begins the day's work, winding up with his office callers about midnight. No cheapskate, he hands out $50,000 a year to charities, spends untold thousands on legal advice...
...doesn't have a lawyer, he's got a bar association." cracks one Boston barrister. Goldfine took considerable pride in having stylish cloth woven at Vermont's Northfield Mills out of the wool from South America's vicuñas, getting it tailored into coats for friends such as Adams and Payne. By his standards his was the open, honest hand of friendship, and what he got in return was only the kind of help one friend would render another. Says one of his closest Boston friends: "He's a name dropper and a Scotch...
...Gibbons, 57, rose to declare that he had changed his mind about wanting to be a U.S. Senator, instead would run for Governor, whether the convention endorsed him or not. Casting around for another fresh senatorial candidate (the term most used was "sacrificial lamb"), the Republicans roped in a Boston attorney named Vincent J. Celeste, 34, who ran once for city council, once for state representative, once for Congress (against Jack Kennedy in 1950) -and lost all three times...
...Boston College Jacques Maritain, philosopher and teacher LL.D...