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Quick were newsmen to look at the record. The record: at a press conference on Aug. 5, 1948 (the. day Alger Hiss swore to the Un-American Activities Committee that he had never been a Communist), Truman was asked: "Mr. President, do you think the Capitol Hill spy hearings are a good thing, or do you think they are a red herring to divert attention from the anti-inflation program?" Mr. Truman's reply: the hearings are a red herring. Then & there he made an exception to the rule banning direct quotes from presidential press conferences. Said Mr. Truman...
Prewar German bonds will be listed this week for trading on the New York exchanges for the first time since World War II. After months of checking (TIME, Aug. 18 1952), the SEC validated five series of bonds for trading, hopes soon to okay 45 more issues...
...Congressional Medal of Honor Winner Sergeant Hiroshi Miyamura, 28, who spent 28 months in a Communist prison after killing more than 50 enemy soldiers in singlehanded night combat in Korea (TIME, Aug...
...Cruel Sea. One of the best of the World War II films, based on Nicholas Monsarrat's bestseller (TIME, Aug...
From Here to Eternity. James Jones's novel about life in the peacetime Army, compressed into a hard, tensely acted movie (TIME, Aug...