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...large, assertive man wearing thick-lensed spectacles took the witness stand last week in the perjury trial of Alger Hiss. He identified himself as Dr. Carl A. L. Binger; he had been awaiting this moment for about seven months...
...judgments? Dr. Binger settled down to explain. Chambers had stolen books from the library when he was a student at Columbia; stealing is one of the characteristic behaviors of a psychopath. In the beginning of the case Chambers had "withheld the significant truth" about his relationship with Alger Hiss-a behavior known to psychiatrists as "withholding truth." Other characteristics revealed to Dr. Binger by Chambers' career: "pathological lying," "insensitivity for the feelings of others," "bizarre behavior," "vagabondism...
Some personal characteristics of Dr. Henry A. Murray '15, University psychologist, were attacked by Assistant United States Attorney Thomas E. Murphy, prosecutor in the Alger Biss LL.B. '29 trial, last Friday...
...Quarry. At 10:15 every morning, carrying a rolled-up umbrella, wearing rubbers if there is a hint of rain, punctual Alger Hiss, with his wife, climbs the long front steps of Manhattan's U.S. Court House. Crowded in an elevator with half a dozen reporters, lawyers, jurors, he rides up to the 13th floor. Reporters, long since accustomed to his constant, faintly smiling presence, discuss him calmly within his hearing-in the elevator, in the corridor outside the courtroom, in Andre's restaurant near the old World Building. There the Hisses also go for lunch; the management...
...Chambers got hold of them? What was inexplicable by Hiss's version of the case, Alger Hiss simply did not try to explain. After four days, Murphy ended his crossexamination, and Hiss stepped down. To the stand came Priscilla Hiss, who this week will face the implacable Murphy...