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...readily than they are added. Writers who turn out one important book and then fade out quickly join the "noncurrent" (i.e., dropped)' list. Death or conviction for a crime are automatic reasons for dropping a name, although after death the name may turn up in Who Was Who. Alger Hiss went out after he was convicted of perjury. German-American Bundsman Fritz Kuhn as well as Communist Boss William Z. Foster were knocked out for being too "notorious." No sports figures were included until 1943, when the rule was changed. Among the sports figures that...
...turned out Autocrats of the Breakfast Table (Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1829), the dinner table (Lucius Beebe, 1927), the atomic table (J. Robert Oppenheimer, 1926), and the timetable (President Walter Franklin of the Pennsylvania Railroad). One of its alumni, John Reed, 1910, was buried in the Kremlin; another was Horatio Alger, 1852, known to his classmates as "Holy"' ("I shall have to move," said he in his first year, "to where there is more respect for decency...
Speakers will be Victor Lasky, author of a book on the Alger Hiss case, W. E. Mullins, political editor of the Boston Herald, and Hal Clancy, City Editor of the Boston Traveler. Professor John T. McNaughton of the Law School will serve as moderator...
Following the careers of two gangsters from rags to riches, both pictures are in the Horatio Alger tradition. Then the camera watches while the mobsters go back to the gutter, each weighing several pounds more than he had immediately before death. Since both are rather antique, the photography, sound, and much of the acting and direction are adolescent by modern standards. It is mostly the superior villainy of Messers. Cagney and Robinson that makes the films wonderful. Cagney brushes grapefruits into his lovely breakfast partner's face--no, not Jean Harlow, he meets her later. And in addition...
Quick were newsmen to look at the record. The record: at a press conference on Aug. 5, 1948 (the. day Alger Hiss swore to the Un-American Activities Committee that he had never been a Communist), Truman was asked: "Mr. President, do you think the Capitol Hill spy hearings are a good thing, or do you think they are a red herring to divert attention from the anti-inflation program?" Mr. Truman's reply: the hearings are a red herring. Then & there he made an exception to the rule banning direct quotes from presidential press conferences. Said Mr. Truman...