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...Right There." Alger Hiss's first trial had ended in a hung jury. In the second, Judge Goddard had proved more lenient than Judge Samuel Kaufman. He had permitted the defense to bring in a psychiatrist and a psychologist to testify that the Government's star witness, ex-Communist Courier Whittaker Chambers, was a "psychopathic personality," and allowed the prosecution to produce Hede Massing, ex-wife of Gerhart Eisler (she testified to meeting Hiss as a fellow Communist in Washington...
Died. Samuel Putnam, 57, author (Marguerite of Navarre, Marvelous Journey), translator, ex-Communist (he quit in 1944 after eight years of "misguided humility"); of a heart attack; in Lambertville, N.J. Translator of some 50 French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Russian works, he capped his career last year with an exemplary version of Don Quixote...
...while, the prisoners, too, were at moral odds amongst themselves. They argued endlessly about the proper way to meet their fate. The doctor was satisfied "to make our peace with these things and die quietly, like men." Anatol, a shaven-headed ex-Communist, snorted at dying "gracefully ... It stinks of priests and last minute confessions...
Point by point Murphy went over the Government's evidence: the notes in Hiss's handwriting which ex-Communist Courier Whittaker Chambers had had in his possession; the stolen documents which were typed on the Hisses' Woodstock typewriter...
Manning Johnson's testimony struck a sharp blow for the Government in its effort to prove Harry Bridges had lied at his naturalization proceedings in 1945, when he denied he was or ever had been a Communist. When Johnson stepped down, the U.S. trotted out ex-Communist No. 6 from its stable of witnesses. Paul Crouch, a tall, black-haired Miami newsman who had spent 17 years in the party, backed up much of what Manning Johnson had said, added that he had heard a party leader in 1938 recommend Bridges for another term on the national committee although...