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...Northfield Mills. This mill, with 170 to 200 employees, in Northfield, Vt. (pop. 2,262), is owned by Goldfine but bossed by long distance by Goldfine Secretary Mildred Paperman. In November 1950 the Vermont secretary of state dissolved Northfield's charter because the company had refused to file an annual report. Northfield was reincorporated...
...June 25, 1952, Northfield received a letter from the Federal Trade Commission charging the company with mislabeling its products. A similar letter came on Dec. 12, 1952, still another on June 10, 1953. Goldfine testified before the House subcommittee that he thought Northfield had settled the FTC complaint then "with the correction of our labeling practices." But Goldfine's son, H. Maxwell Goldfine, talking to a TIME correspondent a few weeks before his father's testimony, had another version of how the hoped-for settlement was sought. He blamed Einiger Mills, Inc., a Goldfine competitor, for prompting...
...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...
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Married. Cyrus Stephen Eaton, 73, silver-haired Cleveland tycoon (steel, iron ore, coal, railroads); and Cleveland Socialite Anne Kinder Jones, 35, confined to a wheelchair by polio since 1946; both for the second time; in Northfield, Ohio...