Word: algerisms
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...Manhattan courtroom last week, the Government settled down once again to the country's most celebrated contest of verities: the second trial of Alger Hiss...
Next time Alger Hiss stood trial for perjury in connection with the Whittaker Chambers "pumpkin papers" espionage case (TIME, Aug. 16, 1948 et seq.), he wanted some changes made. Dispensing with the flamboyant talents of Manhattan Lawyer Lloyd Paul Stryker (who got a hung jury last time), Hiss hired a new lawyer: Mississippi-born, Harvard-trained Claude B. Cross, 55, a conservative Bostonian who specializes in business law, but who donated his services in 1947 to the defense of convicted Traitor Douglas...
...even before the big show closed, New Yorkers would probably be reading the notices on a revival of last Spring's thriller. The Alger Hiss perjury trial was scheduled to re-open in mid-October...
Looking back 48 years to his birth in a railroad worker's family in Savanna, Ill., King solemnly says the obvious: "I'm kind of like a Horatio Alger story." King's story includes stretches as newsboy, railway worker, insurance salesman and clarinetist. In 1927 he brought his romantic profile and even more romantic rhythms into Chicago's Aragon Ballroom, and built up a devoted radio audience when he was sponsored by Lady Esther cosmetics. As a radio fixture, he has piled up more than 10,000 programs...
...fabulously famous. Lydia's iron smile had been plastered on barns and billboards across the U.S., and her name was in history with Betsy Ross, Jane Addams and Susan B. Anthony. Her story, told in Jean Burton's spry biography, makes the career of a Horatio Alger hero sound like a chronicle of indifferent success...