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...mother led her 13-year-old son into the Federal Penitentiary's Administration Building. She went up to a handsome, so-year-old man who kissed her and said: "Priscilla." Wrapping his arms around the boy, the man greeted him with a "Hiya, Tony." Then Priscilla, Anthony and Alger Hiss walked out the door into the sunlight...
...State Department in Washington, for the League of Nations in Geneva, for the OSS in wartime Europe, for the Unitarian Service Committee in France. After the war, he and his brother Hermann sauntered through the Iron Curtain countries like welcome guests. Whittaker Chambers said Noel was a friend of Alger Hiss and a Communist agent; the Communists said he worked for the U.S. "imperialists." His sister said Noel and his whole family were just "Quaker-Liberals" who were "arch-individualists...
Before his slated release from the Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary this week, Model Prisoner Alger Hiss, 50, had a "customary talk" with the warden. Hiss, who has served three years, eight months and five days of a five-year sentence for perjury (for denying that he had turned secret documents over to the Communists while in the State Department), could scarcely find much consolation in the warden's parting words. When, as ex-Convict 19137, he walks out of Lewisburg's gate two days after Thanksgiving Day, Lawyer Hiss will greet the world as a convicted felon, practically broke...
...group waved such placards as WHY DID ALGER HISS WANT TRIAL IN VERMONT? DO YOU KNOW SENATOR FLANDERS? This referred to the fact that Flanders' brother's wife's sister's divorced husband was a brother of Alger Hiss's wife. Then McCarthy followers milled around the Capitol and Senate Office Building most of the day. Once when McCarthy strode down a Capitol corridor, a grandmotherly woman darted out, touched him, and dashed away shrieking: "I touched...
...Texas, the time-tested Democratic campaign principle is to ignore Republican candidates. But this year the G.O.P.'s Bruce Alger refused to be ignored. He campaigned so busily that he even wandered into his opponent's own office in search of votes. Alger, 36, is a former Princeton footballer and World War II bomber pilot. His wife was a Nieman-Marcus model. Even when his lead was safe, Alger could not forget that he was a Republican running in Texas. Said he: "Don't count me in yet-I don't want to be presumptuous...