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...Communist Spy Courier Elizabeth Bentley got a job in Chicago's Mundelein College, teaching a familiar subject: political science...
...horses went to the post. All others had been scratched because the track was dry and hard and the distance, a mile and five-eighths, was punishing. Gordon Richards, Britain's leading jockey, with 163 winners this year, was aboard the favorite, Ridge Wood. The other horse was Courier, ridden by Tommy Lowrey. Each trainer had told his rider to let the other horse set the pace...
Ridge Wood and Courier broke well from the starting tapes but immediately slowed to a walk as both jockeys tried to follow their instructions. A starter's assistant cracked his whip but could not even raise a canter. It took Ridge Wood and Courier 1 min. 24 sec. to stroll the first furlong (in that time a really good horse, doing his best, can run seven furlongs...
...chairman of the Item's board of directors-"a, synonym for retired old gentleman"-David Stern said he would take a back seat. Publisher and majority stockholder would be bustling little Tommy, who climbed the ladder from cub reporter to publisher on the family's Camden Courier and Post, with time out for Army service and a novel (Francis, a 1946 satire about a talking Army mule). The Sterns persuaded a group of New Orleans business and professional leaders to buy a minority stock interest in the Item...
...Alger and Priscilla Hiss and Defense Attorney Lloyd Stryker. With these minutiae, Murphy sought to convict Alger Hiss, once-bright star of the State Department, of charges that he had perjured himself when he told a grand jury that he had never given State Department secrets to ex-Communist Courier Chambers, and that he had never seen Chambers after...