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Stanton's success story makes Horatio Alger seem believable. Last year he signed a ten-year, million-dollar contract with CBS, and bonuses will raise his annual income to $130,000. Last month he had the heady experience of turning down a job, for which he could "name his own price," offered him by rival RCA. Refusing jobs has become almost a matter of routine. In his 15 years at CBS he has said no (sometimes repeatedly) to Pollsters Elmo Roper and Nielsen, FORTUNE, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and two other universities, three advertising firms, assorted Government agencies...
...Department was not that it was doing too much in Europe, but that it had not done enough in Asia. Maryland's John Marshall Butler, who had sensationally defeated McCarthy's archfoe, Millard Tydings, favored aid to Europe. So did California's Richard Nixon, nemesis of Alger Hiss, who campaigned against Communism in government...
...Alger Hiss got an idea what it means to be a Harvard graduate in his trials for perjury when proceptor Thomas F. Murphy made remarks like the above to emphasize the "implausibility" of parts of Hiss' story. Murphy kept referring to Hiss as "this Harvard Law Review man" and never stressed the point that Hiss had attended Johns Hopkins College and only had been at Harvard Law School...
...quick whitewash and bounded onstage gleaming like the driven snow and shouting that he was an Independent. To Tammany's horror, the acting mayor began getting applause, particularly after he took advantage of the Brooklyn gambling scandal (TIME, Oct. 9) to appoint big, reassuring Tom Murphy, the Alger Hiss prosecutor, as police commissioner...
...conviction of Alger Hiss...