Word: gart
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attractive woman pointing their fingers at each other (above) are not playing a new finger game. They are talking about the silent man in the middle: Dwight Robinson, chairman of Massachusetts Investors Trust. En gaged in conversation with Mrs. Robinson is TIME'S Boston Bureau Chief Murray Gart, who spent many hours with the Robinsons working on this week's cover story on M.I.T. and the man who runs it. Gart got to know the Robinsons well by being shadow to Robinson at his M.I.T. offices, visiting the Robinson home, romping with their three elkhounds...
...Gart is as comfortable in Boston as a codfish cake. He was born there him self, but headed west to Kansas after graduating from Boston's Northeastern University. He became news editor of the Wichita Eagle, was a stringer cor respondent for TIME before going to full time in 1955 as Toronto bureau chief. In Toronto Gart got his intro duction to finance by covering the frenzied Toronto Stock Exchange and its volatile penny stocks. He also got his first market blooding (he lost $4.98). Back in his native Boston, Gart got a different view of finance...
With a straight face, Gart passed on this conservative tip to Contribut ing Editor Ed Jamieson in Manhattan, who wrote the cover story. Jamieson was also born in Boston, went to Bos ton University, thinks that one of the world's fairest sights is Boston Com mon at dusk...
...exciting aspects of the American boom: the story of General Electric's Ralph Cordiner and the atomic energy industry, the telephone-man cover on A.T. & T., and the rise of American Motors' George Romney and the compact car. The result of the team work between Gart and Jamieson, and the story of the financial world's fastest-growing phenomenon, you can read in the BUSINESS cover story on The Prudent...
WHEN Bernard Goldfine's name first broke into the news, TIME'S Boston Bureau Chief Murray Gart was the first newsman to corral the elusive Massachusetts millionaire, talked to Goldfine for 3½ hours in his Chestnut Hill home, got a memorable interview (TIME, June 23). As the Goldfine story developed, Gart stayed on the trail, found enough leads to call for a task-force effort. Last week, while Correspondent Neil MacNeil covered the day-and-night Goldfine show in Washington, TIME deployed a reporting task force through New England. From New York to Boston went Fiscal Specialist...