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...That Richard." So convincingly did Alger Hiss deny Whittaker Chambers' charges, that the House Un-American Activities Committee was about to call off the investigation and run for cover. But Committee Member Nixon detected ominous hedging in Hiss's testimony. "I was a lawyer and I knew he was a lawyer." Nixon recalls. "I felt [he] was just too slick ... If Hiss was lying, he was lying in such a way as to avoid perjury, with a very careful use of phrasing ... It was very possibly an act, it seemed...
...temporarily. Says Hannah Nixon: "That Richard looked so tired I thought he would break apart. Then he'd go to the piano and play for maybe an hour. When he sat up, he looked refreshed and ready to go on down to the Chambers farm." In the second Hiss trial, Nixon's efforts paid...
...attack is made; the torpedoes hiss toward their victims. Then comes the bad moment. Down the white torpedo wakes race the enemy destroyers, the sharp pings of their sonars searching for the submarine. It dives for the depths, and then come the crashing depth charges...
December: The holiday season will begin as usual, with Macy's Christmas parade, and a denial of parole to Alger Hiss. Then animositics will melt in the glow of holiday good feeling, and newsmen will be forced to dust off their crystal balls once again...
...company. Of the trickle of foreign books critical of the U.S., the most sensible and understanding was Italian Luigi Barzini Jr.'s Americans Are Alone in the World. The most gratuitous book from abroad was, by all odds, Briton Earl Jowitt's The Strange Case of Alger Hiss, which niggled at American jurisprudence and raised among readers questions as to the earl's competence to judge the nature of Communist conspiracy...