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Life With Father. The indomitability had cropped out in him early, though not in the sense approved by Horatio Alger. He was the third child (in a family of five boys, three girls) of a Swiss-born construction contractor named William Rickenbacher.* Father Rickenbacher was a big, black-haired man with a violent temper and a deep belief in the cultural influences of a razor strop. Eddie, on the other hand, was driven by an unconquerable urge to make up his own rules and see that everybody else played by them. "I was just ornery," he says...
...subtitle of this book is misleading. Messrs. Lasky and do Toledano call their book "The True Story of the Hiss-Chambers Tragedy" and thus imply that they are offering the readers the fruits of a careful and deliberate search for the truth of the highly controversial Alger Hiss case...
...facts, the headlines were big enough and black enough to give the Democratic Party the jitters. For one thing, there was always the awful prospect that McCarthy might turn up one case that he could make stick. If that one turned out to be anything like the case of Alger Hiss, one was all it would take...
...what they regard as his aloof manner. In his appearances before Congress, he is gracious, urbane and polite-perhaps over-polite. But his explanations of foreign programs often carry a trace of faint weariness that explanations should be needed. Worse, even staunch Democrats were dismayed by his espousal of Alger Hiss; and his explanation of what he regarded as the moral niceties of the question merely embarrassed them more. In their eyes, he had thus become a political liability...
...Before you leave," he said to Secretary Acheson, "would you like to make any comment about the Alger Hiss convic tion of perjury?" The Secretary paused a moment on the fateful cue. "Senator, I was not notified that I would have to make any comment," he replied. "If the committee wishes me to explain what I said, I'll do it. I have no desire to do it." He reached into his pocket and pulled out a prepared state ment, and an aide behind him began pass ing out mimeographed texts to newsmen in the room. His hands trembling...