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...replied with unusual feeling: "I think I can find a better man." Last week, to replace Connole, the President named Brooklyn-born Thomas James Donegan, 53, a former FBI agent and member of the Subversive Activities Control Board, who helped present the evidence to federal grand juries that indicted Alger Hiss, William W. Remington and Judith Coplon. Also named to the FPC was Paul A. Sweeny, 64, a Democrat and Justice Department lawyer, who will fill the post of John B. Hussey, who died recently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Shift in Power Policy | 5/16/1960 | See Source »

...Imprisoned most of the leading Algiers plotters-including Count Alain de Sérigny, proprietor of Algeria's most influential daily, L'Echo d'Alger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Defeat for the Right | 2/22/1960 | See Source »

...Alger Hiss, 55, released in 1954 after a 44-month stretch in a federal pen for perjury, is interested in a job more in keeping with his not inconsiderable abilities. In the past two years he worked his way up to a $20,000-a-year salary as administrative assistant to R. Andrew Smith, a ladies' comb manufacturer. Hiss disclosed last week that he has quit, but kept mum on his new venture. Ex-Employer Smith had qualified praise for him: "An indispensable man," but not quite "a dedicated businessman." Observed Smith vaguely: "Mr. Hiss ought to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 22, 1960 | 2/22/1960 | See Source »

...when he appeared as a participant on a television panel show, David Susskind's Open End, with his World-Telegram partner Fred J. Cook. Teamed with Gleason on numerous expose stories, Cook, 49, a World-Telegram veteran of 15 years and a sometime author (The Unfinished Story of Alger Hiss), did most of the writing. Husky, broad-shouldered Gene Gleason did most of the reportorial digging. They worked together on the 1956 slum-clearance expose, collaborated again this year on an extracurricular writing assignment for the Nation. Titled "The Shame of New York," it was a 62-page rehash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Nothing Halts Him | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

...season at Jordan Hall in Boston, James A. Wechsler, editor of the New York Post, called Nixon an insincere man "who weaves from the right side of the road to the left and should be arrested for drunken driving." He cited the vicePresident's treatment of the Alger Hiss case and his support for negotiations with the Russians as "an example of his twoheaded politics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Journalists Disagree On Position of Nixon As U.S. Policy-maker | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

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