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After reading the publicity given to ex-Communist Whittaker Chambers, Senior Editor of TIME Magazine, my first impulse is to cancel my subscription. It is inconceivable that a news publication of such influence can knowingly employ anyone who has ever been a Communist...
...What should I do: cancel my subscription or go out and rob a bank...
Accompanied by a committee investigator, Chambers was led to one room of Suite 1400 in the Commodore. Alger Hiss arrived in the suite's other room at 5:38. He was in a bitter mood. He had been forced to cancel a dinner date; he was furious because the discussion of a lie detector test (which Hiss later refused to take) had leaked out after the secret committee hearings; he was distressed because of the death of Harry White (see below). Said he: "I'm not sure I'm, in the best possible mood for testimony...
...Carnegie Institution, may come from the sun. There are plenty of high-speed particles in the sun, but ordinarily they cannot escape into space because of the sun's powerful magnetic field. But sunspots, which are whirling solar hurricanes, have magnetic fields of their own. Sometimes these cancel the sun's general field, making a narrow, nonmagnetic tunnel through which the particles escape. Dr. Forbush claimed to have observed sudden increases of cosmic radiation when such a tunnel happened to point toward the earth...
Despite his weak heart (which caused him to cancel his announced U.S. trip this spring), Gide is still a prodigious worker. He is up at 6:30 every day, writes steadily until 9, works with a secretary until noon. After lunch and a nap he writes again until 5, has tea and receives friends. He hates to lose at solitaire or chess, loves the movies. A voracious reader, he rates Dashiell Hammett with Faulkner and Steinbeck, was greatly impressed by the Kinsey Report...