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...villagers who shelter Jean in Japanese-occupied Malaya are real farmers in a real village. The London office of Jean's solicitor is perfectly authentic, and in Australia the reader can almost hear her husband's cattle moo. But Jean is as unconvincing as a Horatio Alger hero...
...professional activities of Fellows have tended for some time to get little publicity, but Marbury attracted some attention recently as Alger Hiss' personal lawyer in the early days of his controversy with Whittaker Chambers...
Problem of Proof. As the hearing recessed, the evidence against Lattimore was entirely based on hearsay, as Budenz himself admitted. But it had come from a man whose testimony could not lightly be dismissed. He had been one of the witnesses who named Alger Hiss as a Communist, had exposed Gerhart Eisler as the Soviets' top espionage agent in the U.S., had been used by the Government as its star witness against the eleven Communist leaders. Born in Indianapolis 58 years ago, Budenz grew up in the Roman Catholic faith, but soon after his graduation from law school...
Murray appeared for the defense of Alger Hiss to give psychiatric testimony on Whittaker Chambers, the chef witness for the prosecution...
...Smathers' birthplace in Atlantic City, N.J., denounced him as a damyankee intruder. To which Smathers would answer that he himself was a University of Florida graduate, while Pepper deserted his native state to go north to Harvard. "Felix Frankfurter had nothing to do with my education," boomed Smathers. "Alger Hiss is no classmate of mine. I don't travel under the Crimson banner of Harvard...