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This week the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the appeal filed by Alger Hiss, thus, in effect, affirmed the judgment of the lower courts in the dramatic Hiss-Chambers case. Hiss has two weeks within which to ask the Supreme Court to reconsider (which the Court is not likely to do). Succeeding steps: the circuit court of appeals (which has already affirmed his conviction) orders the trial court to carry out judgment-five years in prison for perjury...
...weeks, the blister-conscious Administration let the case of John Carter Vincent hiss and steam on the back of the stove. Dean Acheson wanted to promote him from his job as U.S. Minister to Switzerland, make him Ambassador to Costa Rica. But an ambassador must be confirmed by the Senate, and the White House did not relish the prospect of another airing of Vincent's record. Items: during his years (1945-4?) as director of the State Department's Office of Far Eastern Affairs, he 1) assiduously promoted an anti-Chiang policy that played right into...
...World Peace Council is like Uncle Toms Cabin without the bloodhounds. The hero is very good and patient, the villain is very villainous, the audience knows just when to cheer and when to hiss. Last week the World Peace Council opened in Berlin with the regular cast (not a road company...
Often First. The show's guests are not only newsworthy, but increasingly newsmaking. On Meet the Press, Whittaker Chambers touched off the series of events that led to the conviction of Alger Hiss, and Elizabeth Bentley publicly accused William Remington of being a Communist. Governor Dewey used Meet the Press for his first public statement of support of Eisenhower for President, and New Mexico's Senator Clinton Anderson seized his opportunity there to nominate Truman for a third term in 1952. General Bedell Smith, in 1949, said he was certain the Russians had the atom bomb, and Federal...
...prominent candidate for the next appointment: flamboyant Lloyd Paul Stryker, 65 who defended Hiss in the first trial...