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...have done the nation a great service in your reporting on Sherman Adams and Bernard Goldfine. Actually, the behavior of Mr. Goldfine is in no better taste than that of other well-known immigrants who have peopled the underworld, and his ready access to the number two man in our Government is keenly resented by the millions of little people whose only contact with big Government is a vote every four years...
...last week Boston Real Estate and Textile Operator Bernard Goldfine had become far more of a Washington attraction than his good friend, Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams. Tourists nudged one another and gawped as he swept through hotel lobbies with his entourage. Reporters and TVmen jumped at the beck of his pressagents any time of day or night. Seasoned politicos of both parties swallowed nervously every time he dropped a new political name. And behind the guarded gates of the White House, the President's staff read the news tickers in continuing wonderment to see what manner of man this...
...Swore that neither Sherman Adams nor other public officials had received any of the $776,000 in mysterious treasurer's and cashier's checks bought by his companies since 1941 and still uncashed as of last...
...friendship with Bernard Goldfine, testified Staff Chief Sherman Adams before the House Special Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight last month, was "not a casual one nor one of recent origin." It was because he knew Goldfine so well that Adams was willing to vouch for him as "an upright and honest citizen, trustworthy and reliable." Whether Goldfine actually fits that description, whether he is the sort of businessman from whom public officials can accept gifts without having to return favors, remains the central issue in the Adams-Goldfine case despite distracting Goldfine pressagentry. Last week TIME reporters, conducting dozens of interviews...
Serpentine Ally. At Shiloh, according to newspaper accounts, the good captain "stood erect in front of his men, during the whole engagement, but escaped all injury, except having about three inches torn from the left shoulder of his coat, by a ball from the enemy." General Sherman made him a lieutenant colonel and assistant provost marshal of Memphis, where, even in 1862, blockaded cotton was being feverishly and profitably traded to Northern mills. At Lincoln's command, Littlefield later organized one of the first Negro regiments. By war's end. General Littlefield's character, as well...