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...lean, tight-lipped man in a neat brown suit presented himself in Federal Judge Henry Goddard's Manhattan courtroom. The judge said briefly: "You are surrendering to the marshal?" Said the lean man: "Yes, sir." A deputy marshal led Alger Hiss away to a detention cell...
...dignified law chambers of Foley Square had never seen anything like it-even during the dramatic trials of Alger Hiss or the Communist Party hierarchy. Curious spectators stood for hours in pushing lines for seats to the small upstairs room, finally forced the committee to move down, to a big third-floor courtroom. There flashbulbs flared like heat lightning through the forest of television and newsreel cameras. From the judge's bench, mild-mannered Estes Kefauver presided with a firm hand, as Chief Counsel Rudolph Halley, an able, professionally annoying examiner, hammered at the unhappy witnesses. At Kefauver...
...Eugene Griffin on "leftist" at Harvard has appeared in the Tribune for the last three years. Griffin last spring stated that the University was losing alumni gifts because of the faculty's left wingers and the notoriety brought to the name of Harvard by such former students as Alger Hiss...
This week the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the appeal filed by Alger Hiss, thus, in effect, affirmed the judgment of the lower courts in the dramatic Hiss-Chambers case. Hiss has two weeks within which to ask the Supreme Court to reconsider (which the Court is not likely to do). Succeeding steps: the circuit court of appeals (which has already affirmed his conviction) orders the trial court to carry out judgment-five years in prison for perjury...
...know that Alger Hiss and Fuchs could destroy the whole world?" asked a representative Mrs. Ross replied that she didn't quite see the point of this question. Representative Keene then tried to "clarify the situation" for Mrs. Ross-"Are the boys that get killed in Korea sacrificing their lives for you or some other country? I don't like to see the bodies of boys brought home from Korea." Witness Ross was slightly rattled by this burst of oratory. She repeated that Communist subversion was already handled by Federal laws. Then she sat down. "These Communists are very clever...