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...large, assertive man wearing thick-lensed spectacles took the witness stand last week in the perjury trial of Alger Hiss. He identified himself as Dr. Carl A. L. Binger; he had been awaiting this moment for about seven months...
...Judge Henry Goddard waved Murphy aside. Perhaps such testimony had never been admitted in a federal court but it had been in state courts, said the judge. So Dr. Binger was allowed to talk. He was there to attack the credibility of the Government's chief witness and Hiss's accuser, Whittaker Chambers...
...Chambers' undergraduate writing, some of his translations, book reviews and an essay, The Devil, in the Feb. 2, 1948 issue of LIFE. Now, fortified with this research and his psychiatric training but without ever having talked to Chambers (unnecessary, he said), Dr. Binger sat and listened while Hiss's attorney Claude B. Cross read, as part of one question, a selection of the most damning statements (true or false) made about Chambers during the trial. The question went on for 78 minutes. "Assuming these facts to be true," asked Cross, what did Dr. Binger think of Chambers...
Point by point Murphy went over the Government's evidence: the notes in Hiss's handwriting which ex-Communist Courier Whittaker Chambers had had in his possession; the stolen documents which were typed on the Hisses' Woodstock typewriter...
...Chambers got hold of them? What was inexplicable by Hiss's version of the case, Alger Hiss simply did not try to explain. After four days, Murphy ended his crossexamination, and Hiss stepped down. To the stand came Priscilla Hiss, who this week will face the implacable Murphy...