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Market Tipster Frederick N. Goldsmith shook Wall Streeters two months ago by saying that his generally accurate tips came from a code in Bringing Up Father revealed by a spirit. In a Manhattan court hearing last week he took most of it back. The New York attorney general was trying to put Goldsmith out of business as a tipster. However, Goldsmith, veteran of 48 years of financial soothsaying, did admit that he had tried to get some spirit help, but had had no luck...
Actually, Goldsmith testified, the market tip letter that earned him as much as $39,000 a year was based on stock market charts. He had said that the tips were based on Maggie & Jiggs only because "I was worried and confused and in a hurry to get out." And even if Maggie & Jiggs did suggest a tip, he insisted that he always checked it against his charts. That was why he had always been right on long-range predictions, though sometimes wrong on short-range ones. Said he: "Stocks always do what they ought to do, but they never...
...called on great men who not only made him welcome but asked him to come again. Benjamin Franklin, then in London, took him to the court of George III, introduced him to his literary friends, and lent him money. Rush dined with Artist Sir Joshua Reynolds, Novelist Oliver Goldsmith ("He spoke with the Irish accent"), and crotchety Literary Czar Samuel Johnson, who reports Dr. Rush was rude to Goldsmith. Rush even got himself invited as a dinner guest of famed Political Prisoner John Wilkes in the King's Bench prison. Wilkes had 15 guests in his cell that...
...goldsmith's son, Maldarelli was apprenticed at 17 to a jeweler. He earned a fair living as a jewelry designer, studied sculpture at night-first at Cooper Union, then at the National Academy of Design, and finally for seven years at the Beaux Arts. Now he is 56, and has his own students at Columbia University...
Then as the Deacons massed nine men in the line, the Bellboys scored on a flashy buck lateral wherein the fullback palmed the ball to the quarterback who shovelled it off to tailback Johnny Goldsmith flying around the end. Goldsmith scored standing up. Another Woodruff to Donohoe pass was good for the point and the margin of victory...