A Letter From The Publisher, Jun. 23, 1958

AT midweek TIME’s Boston bureau got the word to be on the lookout for a man named Bernard Goldfine, a textile industrialist whose name had suddenly been linked to White House Staff Boss Sherman Adams. TIME-LIFE Correspondents Murray Gart and Wilbur Jarvis set to work, telephoning town after town in New England, searching for the elusive Goldfine (neither his home nor his office admitted to his whereabouts). Once they found a man named Goldfine, but it was Bernard’s son Horace. He did not know where his father was, either. That evening TIME-LIFE Correspondent Ken Froslid spotted Mrs. Goldfine in the Boston garment district, trailed her on a hurried ride to Pieroni’s Restaurant in Park Square. Froslid notified Gart, who telephoned Jarvis, who hotfooted it to the restaurant. Meanwhile, Gart phoned Horace. “I told him,” says Gart, “that we knew where his father was, and I gave him Pieroni’s phone number and asked him to call and suggest that he give up.” Horace obliged, and after a slight sidewalk argument, Bernard Goldfine agreed to be interviewed at his home in Chestnut Hill that evening at 11:30 p.m.

While other Boston newsmen still searched, Bernard Goldfine turned up in Chestnut Hill, invited the TIME-LIFE crew in for a detailed 3½-hr. interview, nightcapped it with a Scotch and water. At 3 a.m., Correspondents Jarvis and Gart got back to their office and started a stream of file copy to the Manhattan editors that ended a full twelve hours later. By that time, much-sought Bernard Goldfine had once again retreated, apparently into thin air, and at week’s end was still the object of search by Boston’s harried newsmen. For the story of the man who collects politicians see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Up from East Boston.

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WHILE many another backward part of the world spun its developmental wheels in rampant nationalism, revolution, official corruption, grandiose projects and politics for politics’ sake, Puerto Rico buckled to work and remodeled itself. In the mood of reappraisal after the stones and spit that flew at Vice President Richard Nixon in South America, the island offers a laboratory where U.S. and Latin cultures and economies fuse with useful, imaginative lessons. For the dramatic methods that Poet-Governor Luis Muñoz Marin used in changing Puerto Rico from an “unsolvable problem” to a prosperous, burgeoning tropical workshop, see HEMISPHERE, The Bard of Bootstrap.

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“THE days when the English milord traveled through remote and dangerous foreign lands with nothing but a valet, a revolver and a universally acceptable bag of sovereigns, are, alas (and partly by our own folly), long gone,” sighed the British weekly, Time & Tide, last week.

“But the impoverished milord of today needs to be just as resourceful in dealing with the hostile natives,” Time & Tide continued. “A friend of mine who has spent the past couple of years in the Middle East was annoyed at the way so many Arabs carried pictures of Colonel Nasser and kept bringing them out and kissing them. He was very grateful to TIME Magazine, he said, for publishing a cover picture of Sir Anthony Eden. Now he carries that around wherever he goes and kisses it ostentatiously in return.”