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...analysis, more faith in legwork. Convivial and popular, Andrews likes to do much of the digging himself, won a 1947 Pulitzer Prize for exposing the star-chamber loyalty proceedings in the State Department, later helped prod the House Un-American Activities Committee into the investigations that trapped Alger Hiss. Andrews turned the whole staff loose to help his able assistant, Jack Steele, track down and expose the five-percenters' scandals...
...Foley Square courthouse, where Alger Hiss stood trial and where the party's eleven leaders lost their 1949 marathon with the law, attorneys for the newly arrested comrades fussed loudly about bail. Originally it was set at $277,500, so that the Commies would think twice about jumping bail as Gerhart Eisler did, but later it was trimmed to $176,000. To the Reds' rescue, as usual, came wealthy Party-Liner Frederick Vanderbilt Field, who put up $31,000 in U.S. bonds, $5,000 in cash, enough to spring four...
...Britons were less casual about the case. It stabbed sharply into the vitals of British pride and security. "It is the same sort of wound," wrote the weekly Time & Tide in a soul-searching article last week, "as that caused in the U.S. by the opening phases of the Hiss-Chambers duel . . . What reality is there now in our English assurances, in whose subtlety and strength we have taken such quiet pride? . . . Here are no lately nationalized refugee scientists, no fly-by-night fanatics making somber rendezvous ... If there is a particle of truth in the sinister rumors and speculations...
...succeed Medina, Truman picked New York's big Police Commissioner Thomas F. Murphy, the prosecutor of Alger Hiss...
...choices were sound by any standard, and politically shrewd. Murphy had resigned in a huff last year as an assistant U.S. district attorney, after he was passed over repeatedly when promotions were made; Republicans gibed that Truman did not want to reward the man who had put Alger Hiss in prison. Now, apparently, things were all patched...