Word: paperman
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Dates: during 1962-1962
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Last week, in a Boston federal court, the star witness was to be Goldfine's longtime secretary, Miss Mildred Paperman, Goldfine, who suffered a stroke in December, had been transferred to a Staten Island hospital after serving half of a one-year prison sentence for evading nearly $800,000 in taxes, and was deemed mentally unfit to testify...
Russian-born Mildred Paperman had been a disappointing witness in the past. In her first court appearance, in 1958, she had shown a feminine sensitivity about her age (50 next October). "What are you trying to do. bury me?" she had snapped to reporters. "I'm five or six years younger than you people said. It's bad enough to be 40, let alone the age you claim." In 1960, Secretary Paperman refused to turn over certain of Goldfine's tax records to the Internal Revenue Service and served ten days in pokey for her loyalty...
Last week Mildred Paperman disappointed again. Wearing a lampshade cloche on her curls, she appeared in court in answer to her summons, was accused of smuggling unauthorized papers and letters to her hapless boss last summer, when he was in the Danbury, Conn.) Federal Correctional Institute. One of her letters contained eloquent testimony to her loyalty. "My only ambition in life," she wrote, "is to see you get out." Instead, Mildred Paperman went in, wearing an inscrutable smile, to serve 30 more days for her devotion to Bernard Goldfine...