Word: hisses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Named executive editor of the Harvard Crimson, fifth-ranked editorial post on the undergraduate daily, was horn-rimmed Anthony Hiss, 20, a history and lit major who is aiming for Harvard Law School after his graduation next June. An earlier Harvard Law man (class of '29): his father, Alger Hiss, 57, an honors graduate who won the coveted post of secretary to Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes at the recommendation of Mentor Felix Frankfurter, served as a high State Department official before his conviction (and three-year eight-month imprison ment) for perjury in denying that...
...Hiss: tires or windshield wiper...
Among the 500 Law Review alumni attending the dinner will be Abram J. Chayes '43, legal adviser to the State Department, Alger Hiss, and David Riesman, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences...
...execute the Cuba plan that he had denounced as 'dangerously irresponsible.' " Last week the left-wing Nation triumphantly flushed another controversy from Nixon's book. "Richard M. Nixon," it said, "has just kicked a large hole in his -and the Government's - case against Alger Hiss." The hole: Nixon's statement that FBI agents in December 1948 had found the old Woodstock typewriter that was instrumental in establishing Hiss's guilt...
...wonders fitfully, through it all, why so many intellectuals continue to distrust him--even when they readily acknowledge his courage and skill in Moscow and Caracas. He concludes, with a truly disquieting ingenuousness, that his role in the Hiss case marked him; those who refused to believe in Hiss' guilt disliked him for convincing them they were wrong. What he does not realise is that his theory is only partly right. They dislike him largely because they do not suppose his nicer suits, quieter ties, and speeches about diplomacy rather than subversives to be evidences that he has changed very...