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...When Alger Hiss challenged ,Whittaker Chambers to repeat in public his accusation that Hiss had been a Communist, Chambers took him up on it. Two nights later, on the radio, he repeated the charge, in effect challenging Hiss to sue him for libel or slander (TIME, Sept. 6). Last week Hiss took Chambers' dare, filed a $50,000 suit in Baltimore's Federal Court, charged that Chambers' statements were "untrue, false and defamatory." Said Chambers: "I welcome Mr. Hiss's daring suit . . . But I do not believe that Mr. Hiss or anybody else...
Some of the paintings were skillfully executed. Most of the schools of painting were represented-from the uninhibited Joe (Get In There and Paint) Alger sect to the ubiquitous abstractionists, some of whom found it necessary to attach typewritten explanations of their work for the enlightenment of our occasionally befuddled judges. Spectators, as usual, were fondest of the good old standby scenes of someone's favorite Nantucket seascape or a nostalgic Connecticut farmhouse with trees...
...probably know that Alger Hiss is suing Whittaker Chambers for slander, and you probably don't know that he's doing it in Baltimore. He is, and here's why. Hiss' attorney is William L. Marbury, of the Harvard Corporation, and Baltimore is where he sees his clients...
...Alger Hiss, former holder of several Federal posts, sued Whittaker Chambers for $50,000 slander and libel damages in Baltimore yesterday. Hiss charged that the Time editor's statements about his alleged Communist Party membership were false. In Washington, the House Un-American Activities Committee urged spy trials for four persons, including two atomic bomb scientists...
Still looking ahead, Humphrey has picked his heir apparent. He is a big (6 ft.) Tennessean, Joseph H. Thompson, who joined Hanna eleven years ago after an Alger-like rise in banking (he was a vice president of Cleveland Trust Co. at 32). It was Joe Thompson, now 48, who thought up the Butler Brothers deal, and worked it out. Last week, when Humphrey and his syndicate formed Consumers Ore Co. to manage Butler, they made Thompson its president...