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Former State Department Official Alger Hiss, 50, released last November after serving 44 months for perjury in denying that he had passed secret Government papers to onetime Communist Courier Whittaker Chambers, was handed a summons by a Manhattan cop. The charge, followed by a plea of guilty: playing catch in a restricted area of Washington Square Park with son Tony, 13, and another lad. Penalty: a $3 fine...
...normal crowd would have cheered the teams, for the game was well played, but instead, when it became evident that the Globetrotters would have to fight to stay in the game rather than clown around as they do when they are ahead, the crowd began to hiss, clap hands rhythmically and in general show their disapproval of the game...
...narrative is regarded by the State Department as "the nearest approach to an official American record of the Yalta Conference." 2) H. Freeman Matthews, director of the State Department's Office of European Affairs (now Ambassador to The Netherlands), put much conference dialogue in direct quotations. 3) Alger Hiss, who went to Yalta as U.S. adviser on United Nations matters, took sketchy, sometimes inaccurate longhand notes and never transcribed them. They throw no light whatever on the accusations of Communism made against Hiss-and little on the conference...
These same Republican Congressmen are already denouncing the Democrats with renewed violence for alleged mistakes at the famous parley. Again they have conjured up the spectre of Alger Hiss at Yalta--thanks to the State Department's thoughtful inclusion of Hiss' conference note sin the Yalta volume. These jottings reveal little more, however, than that Hiss could easily fail a college history course because of poor note-taking...
...Raven, Jenny Lamour) introduces a picture that is surely one of the most evil ever made, and yet, curiously, one that uses the approaches of religion. The Wages of Fear seeks out its epiphanies at the cold-blood level of the swamp, where the winding python rears to hiss at the sun, and sinks back blinded but indifferent into slime, where deity is first experienced-as despair...