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...clarifying truths. Tony Hiss's The View from Alger's Window: A Son's Memoir is a tender hagiography that makes a claim for his father's innocence--a case so heartbreakingly sweet that one struggles (though unsuccessfully) to join in the son's self-deception. William F. Buckley Jr., who as a young conservative in the 1950s was a friend to both Chambers and McCarthy, gives his version of McCarthy in a documentary novel, The Redhunter. And in Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America, John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr analyze the deciphered '40s cable traffic, recently released, between...
Whittaker Chambers, Tony's ogre, kept up a correspondence in the '50s with the young William F. Buckley Jr. Chambers was emphatic in his contempt for Joe McCarthy: "For the Right to tie itself in any way to Senator McCarthy is suicide...[H]e can't lead anybody because he can't think. He is a rabble-rouser and a slugger...
...lined up in the Broadhurst's wings like a queue for The Phantom Menace. Steve Martin played a nasty shrink to Stockard Channing's frazzled patient. Nathan Lane and Swoosie Kurtz as two actors waiting for an opening-night review ran their fingernails under each other's egos. Betty Buckley as a modern-media Medea got lectured by a toughlove angel (Whoopi Goldberg). Stunning Susan Sarandon was a fretful Southern mama trying to marry off her shy, sly son (delicious David Hyde Pierce), who had eyes only for his glass menagerie of cocktail swizzle sticks...
Reveille was "oh-seven-twenty"-- 7:20 a.m.-- Buckley said. Two hours of physical training followed. The rest of the day was spent in classrooms and on the shooting range. They learned how to investigate crimes, secure a scene, talk to witnesses, write reports and fire their weapons...
...They put on a first-rate academy," Buckley said of his instructors...