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United Dye and were illegally manipulating the company's stock. On the basis of that probe, a federal grand jury took over in 1959. The jury was particularly interested in four men. Three of them, Samuel Garfield, Irving Pasternak and Allard Roen, were Las Vegas operators; the fourth, Allen K. Swann, was their attorney...
...investigation proceeded, Cohn, according to the charges, conspired with Garfield to prevent the four men from being indicted by the grand jury. Cohn got Gottesman into the act, and Gottesman, says the indictment, went to see Morton Robson, who was then chief assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District in New York (though he was not in charge of the United Dye case), "to effectuate the agreement." What happened after that has not been spelled out in the charges against Cohn. The fact is, that none of the four men was indicted by the 1959 grand jury...
Bribery? That was only the beginning. In 1961 another grand jury looked into the United Dye case. This time, Garfield, Pasternak, Roen and Swann were indicted. All four pleaded guilty. Pasternak was sentenced to 21 years in prison, but his actual entry into prison has been deferred. None of the other three has yet been sentenced-leading to the obvious conjecture that, with this sort of club hanging over their heads, one or all of them may yet end up as witnesses against Cohn...
...broad jump Kirkland's Mike Garfield edged Barry Dym of Eliot. Kirkland's other two first places were won by Gerald Margolis in the 100 yard dash and Russel Chesney...
...Methodist Church. Bishop Garfield Bromley Oxnam once hinted, needed both the whirlwind evangelist and the stable, district-bound administrator; for it owed as much to George Whitefield, who "preached and passed," as to John Wesley, who "organized and abided." Methodist Oxnam, who died last week at 71 from bronchial pneumonia,* shared in the qualities of both men. No U.S. Protestant leader of his time preached more ardently about the causes he cared for; few churchmen were his equal at the homely, slighted arts of governing a district or chairing a conference...