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...harassed by anonymous telephone calls. The wrath of the rightists is sometimes turned toward their idols at the first hint of clay feet. When Frank McGehee's National Indignation meeting in Dallas was unable to raise a pair of conservative Republicans. Senator John Tower and Congressman Bruce Alger, on the telephone-after both had agreed to address the gathering on the phone-McGehee angrily took the stage and shouted: "They have signed their death notes as politicians in the U.S." Several minutes later. Alger came to the phone and all was forgiven. A McGehee aide had simply dialed...
...other hand, the great Protestant teachers were wary of wealth and worldliness. Diligence and thrift they enjoined, writes Samuelsson, but so did Roman Catholics in the same mercantile age. And thrift did not make capitalism; it was enterprise that founded the great fortunes and industries. Even Horatio Alger, Samuelsson points out, always had his pious little lads get into the big money by "a gigantic inheritance, left to his hero by some previously unknown relative, or a gift from a multimillionaire who felt the virtuous boy to be worthy of a reward. Thrift and diligence were adequate instruments for winning...
Crusader Hiss (a third cousin of Alger) went on to help Sarasota start the state's first program for gifted children and its first merit pay system for teachers, then threw himself into Sarasota's campaign for a college. It failed when the new Florida Presbyterian College went to St. Petersburg and Tampa got the state-run University of South Florida. But the Congregationalists' Board of Home Missions listened. With well-heeled Sarasota willing and able to raise $4,000,000, the Congregationalists have promised $600,000 over ten years, plus expert help-and a guarantee...
Whittaker Chambers' last word on the Hiss case was printed in 1959 by the right-wing National Review, for which he worked briefly as an editor. Alger Hiss, declared Chambers, had not paid his penalty "except in the shallowest legalistic sense. There is only one possible payment, as I see it, in his case. It is to speak the truth. Hiss's defiance perpetuates and keeps a fracture in the community as a whole...
Died. Whittaker Chambers, 60, eloquent, eye-opening ex-Communist whose 1949 testimony sent Alger Hiss to prison; of a heart attack; in Westminster, Md. (see THE NATION...