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Harvard's bid for the entire site is now $5,677,000, almost $1 million below the final offer of Samuel P. Coffman, Boston real-estate developer and the high bidder on the property. Coffman bid $25,000 for the extra parcel of land...
Harvard officials have consistently stressed that the University's bid is more than the property is worth, and that Coffman and Roche cannot possibly put up enough buildings on the land to justify their higher bids...
Neither I nor anyone in my Company has ever heard of Samuel P. Coffman. Any representations he may have made and by reason of which you have inferred that we are his "mysterious backers," are entirely false. Evidently this Mr. Coffman has no desire to disabuse your erroneous conjectures for reasons best known only to himself...
...knew nothing whatsoever about this matter. In spite of the fact that my brother vigorously denied any knowledge of or connection with the matter, Mr. Paisner and Mr. Kann had the temerity to infer in their article, published a week after this conversation, that Mr. Tishman was one of Coffman's "mystery backers...
...CRIMSON obtained the information for the Tishman story from the most reliable sources. The sources were wrong, and the CRIMSON regrets all indication that Paul A. Tishman, Norman Tishman, or their companies are the "mystery backers" behind Samuel P. Coffman's bid for the Bennett St. MTA Yards. The CRIMSON apologizes for the inaccuracy of the story. The Editors