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Irving H. Saypol, a stocky New Yorker with a firm chin, is now the nation's No. 1 legal hunter of top Communists. He helped Tom Murphy prosecute Alger Hiss, collaborated in the trial of the top eleven Communists and-after becoming U.S. Attorney in New York last year-convicted William Remington and Atom. Spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Last week Prosecutor Saypol was busy as a sheepdog. He was trying to keep a handful of second-string Communists within the law's purview, to make sure that they are still on hand when it comes time...
...Hermitage. American business biography abounds in up-from-the-bottom stories; few are quite so dramatic and revealing as Sarnoff's. Owen D. Young said that Sarnoff had lived "the most amazing romance of its kind on record." Horatio Alger himself could hardly have done it in one book; he would have needed Adrift in New York, Nelson the Newsboy, The Telegraph Boy and Joe's Luck or Always Wide Awake...
...Times on analysis, more faith in legwork. Convivial and popular, Andrews likes to do much of the digging himself, won a 1947 Pulitzer Prize for exposing the star-chamber loyalty proceedings in the State Department, later helped prod the House Un-American Activities Committee into the investigations that trapped Alger Hiss. Andrews turned the whole staff loose to help his able assistant, Jack Steele, track down and expose the five-percenters' scandals...
...Foley Square courthouse, where Alger Hiss stood trial and where the party's eleven leaders lost their 1949 marathon with the law, attorneys for the newly arrested comrades fussed loudly about bail. Originally it was set at $277,500, so that the Commies would think twice about jumping bail as Gerhart Eisler did, but later it was trimmed to $176,000. To the Reds' rescue, as usual, came wealthy Party-Liner Frederick Vanderbilt Field, who put up $31,000 in U.S. bonds, $5,000 in cash, enough to spring four...
...choices were sound by any standard, and politically shrewd. Murphy had resigned in a huff last year as an assistant U.S. district attorney, after he was passed over repeatedly when promotions were made; Republicans gibed that Truman did not want to reward the man who had put Alger Hiss in prison. Now, apparently, things were all patched...