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Eight to Four. After the jury retired, Alger Hiss sat in the courtroom reading a magazine. He seemed unworried, even happy. As the evening wore on, he read bulldog editions of the morning papers, chewed gum. As hour after hour dragged by, Hiss's confident smile faded. Everybody thought that if there were to be an acquittal, it would come fast. That was the way Stryker and Hiss had pitched their case-to brand the whole charge ridiculous. Obviously, some members of the jury did not think...
William Orville Douglas, the court's youngest (50), who swears inelegantly, chews gum, scratches matches on the seat of his pants, and is an assertive, restless, billy-be-damned man who has often been discussed as a presidential possibility-and still doesn't consider himself politically entombed, even in the marble temple on Capitol Hill...
...true," complained Writer-Director Joseph (A Letter to Three Wives) Mankiewicz, "that a real-estate operator whose chief concern should be taking gum off carpets and checking adolescent love-making in the balcony-isn't it true that this man is in control [of] ... the motion-picture industry...
Chizer Lewis John of 1172 Hendricks Street Gary, Ind.: Telleston School. Gary. Highly, Francis Merrel, Jr. of RR No. 4, Valparaiso, Ind.; Valparaiso High, Little, James Beach of 912 East Gum Street, Evansville, Ind.; Bosse High Evansville, Magee, Charles Thomas, Jr. of 108 South Avenue, Mt. Clemens, Mich.; Mt. Clemens High. Taylor, Richard Edwin of 1602 North Broadway, Hastings, Mich.; Hastings High...
Paragraph 4: Provost Furniss' exact statement, as he sat in his office, was: "These gum-shoes are in and out of here every day." At the time, the conversation was concerned strictly with the FBI. The "every day" was placed in quotes purposely to indicate that it was not the author's report of a fact, but his repetition of what had been told him, in this case by the man most qualified to make such a statement...