Word: algerisms
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...life insurance policies. An acquaintance, George Kirstein, publisher of the liberal weekly, the Nation, rounded up the remaining $60,000. He called Mrs. Helen Lehman Buttenwieser, wealthy wife of an investment banker, niece of New York's ex-Senator Herbert H. Lehman, and herself a sometime attorney for Alger Hiss...
Named executive editor of the Harvard Crimson, fifth-ranked editorial post on the undergraduate daily, was horn-rimmed Anthony Hiss, 20, a history and lit major who is aiming for Harvard Law School after his graduation next June. An earlier Harvard Law man (class of '29): his father, Alger Hiss, 57, an honors graduate who won the coveted post of secretary to Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes at the recommendation of Mentor Felix Frankfurter, served as a high State Department official before his conviction (and three-year eight-month imprison ment) for perjury in denying that...
...year-old governor was born in tallan district in Wakefield, the son tallan immigrants. He started in the business as a hod carrier later a journeyman plasterer, established his own building firm during the session of the 30's, and by the age of 40 had completed his Horatio Alger drive as a millionaire contractor...
Among the 500 Law Review alumni attending the dinner will be Abram J. Chayes '43, legal adviser to the State Department, Alger Hiss, and David Riesman, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences...
...execute the Cuba plan that he had denounced as 'dangerously irresponsible.' " Last week the left-wing Nation triumphantly flushed another controversy from Nixon's book. "Richard M. Nixon," it said, "has just kicked a large hole in his -and the Government's - case against Alger Hiss." The hole: Nixon's statement that FBI agents in December 1948 had found the old Woodstock typewriter that was instrumental in establishing Hiss's guilt...