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Barefoot Girl. The story of Candidate Jacqueline Cochran is beyond the rosiest dreams of Horatio Alger. She does not know who her parents were, or where she was born an estimated 47 years ago. Her childhood was spent in a succession of Florida and Georgia cracker shanties, in dreary sawmill towns at the dead ends of Tobacco Road. Her dresses were flour sacks, and she got her first shoes when she was eight. Starvation was always lurking outside the door, and Jackie ate mostly what she could steal or scrounge. She learned to read from the signs on railroad boxcars...
...letter to Cabot, Ginn replied "If great achievements are to be the criteria for appointment despite mistakes in judgment (even in a matter of espionage), why not select Alger Hiss and Richard Whitney to serve on the corporation...
...Also noted for his book, The Strange Case of Alger Hiss (1953), in which he reviewed the evidence in the Hiss trials, suggested that 1) Hiss was innocent and 2) U.S. justice was poorly administered...
...Chambers, the Villain, he pours irresistible common sense on the woozled thinking of those who argue that Alger Hiss may have been guilty, but still scorn Whittaker Chambers as an "informer." Says Koestler: "To talk of betrayal [by Chambers of Hiss] where loyalty would mean persistence in crime [is] to defend the agents of an evil regime on the grounds that those who denounce it are no saints." ¶The Seven Deadly Fallacies (e.g., confusion of Left and East, the anti-anti attitude) and a brilliant Guide to Political Neuroses (e.g., collective amnesia, eternal adolescence) are probably his most valuable...
Oralists for the Gardner Club were Robert S. Jones and Curtis W. Poole. They were assisted in the brief by John R. Alger, William D. Gaillard III, Wallace M. Kain, D. Kenneth MacDonald, David H. Roenisch, and H. Simmons Tate...