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Walter Chrysler did not come altogether from the Horatio Alger mold. As a boy, he often sneaked off the job to smoke, drink beer and play cards. As a young railroad mechanic, he roamed from job to job, hitched rides on freight trains and occasionally panhandled when he was broke. But his curiosity about tools and machines was endless and his skill in using them not far from genius. After high school in Ellis, Kans., he started as a sweeper in the local railroad shop at 10? an hour. By the time he bought the Locomobile, he was superintendent...
...Generation on Trial, by Alistair Cooke. A look at the trials of Alger Hiss, through the clear eyes of Journalist Cooke (TIME, Sept...
...Francis Myers. His opponent, Pennsylvania's able, red-haired Governor Jim Duff, was popular, and Republicans had not lost an off-year election in the state since 1934. In California, Representative Richard Nixon, the man who did most (in the House Un-American Activities Committee) to drag the Alger Hiss case into the open, was conceded a big lead toward the Senate over Fair Dealing Representative Helen Gahagan Douglas...
...haggard figures, wearing their familiar difficult smiles, once more made the long walk up the stone steps to the U.S. Courthouse in Manhattan's Foley Square. There, with his wife always at his side, Alger Hiss had gone through two of the most thoroughly publicized trials in U.S. history, for a perjury which involved past espionage. Last week the Hisses appeared in court again, this time to hear his lawyer argue the appeal from the five-year prison sentence Hiss got last January...
...curious crowd packed the paneled, 17th-floor room where three judges of the U.S. circuit court of appeals sat; many had to be turned away. The appeals arguments were technical and lengthy, 125 pp., for Alger Hiss's case, 66 for the Government. For three hours, Hiss's counsel and a Government lawyer made their points, answered questions from the court. Then court adjourned, and the Hisses silently made their way through the crowds to the street and disappeared, to endure another long wait. It will be months before the case is finally settled. The appeals court will...