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Behind the Mirrors. The pumpkin papers were only one week's catch; as a Communist courier, Chambers had delivered probably thousands of such documents. The secrets were often transmitted in strips of microfilm concealed between the glass and the backing of dimestore hand mirrors, and carried overseas by Communist couriers. Crew members of the Hamburg-American Line helped out; later, after Hitler came to power, the films were sent via the French Line. From 1935 to 1938, Chambers had two sources in the State Department (so far only Hiss has been named publicly). At one point, four "high sources...
...unprepossessing as a baker-a calm, pudgy little man who kept an old pipe in the pocket of his untidy blue serge suit. But his looks were deceiving. Whittaker Chambers, a senior editor of TIME, a Quaker, was a brilliant intellectual. Before 1938, he had been a Communist courier for the Soviet "apparatus" in Washington...
...sharply,' the A.P. desk in New York shouldn't have changed 'sharply' to 'facetiously'. . . At what point do you slip over from explanatory reporting and get into opinion, so that you should be run on the editorial page?" Wilbur Cogshall of the Louisville Courier-Journal said that individual papers must decide. When Cogshall's paper finds Scotty Reston too interpretive, it runs Reston on the editorial page...
Another large segment of the Fellows has promoted the writing courses of Professor Theodore Morrison. Such men as A. B. Guthrie, who came here from the Louisville Courier-Journal in 1946 and used his fellowship to write his best selling "The Big Sky," are loud in their praise of his classes...
...Perry could point with pride to an almost-right October column titled "It's Closer Than You Think." In the small Garden City (Kans.) Telegram (circ. 5,238), Columnist (and publisher) Gervais F. Reed had piped that Dewey would be upset. And on Oct. 25 the Prescott (Ariz.) Courier (circ. 4,720) had said that, thanks to a divine power, the President would be "sustained in office." (The publisher's wife is a Democratic national committeewoman...