Word: hiss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Alger Hiss, 55, released in 1954 after a 44-month stretch in a federal pen for perjury, is interested in a job more in keeping with his not inconsiderable abilities. In the past two years he worked his way up to a $20,000-a-year salary as administrative assistant to R. Andrew Smith, a ladies' comb manufacturer. Hiss disclosed last week that he has quit, but kept mum on his new venture. Ex-Employer Smith had qualified praise for him: "An indispensable man," but not quite "a dedicated businessman." Observed Smith vaguely: "Mr. Hiss ought to work...