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...Alger Hiss faced his enemy. Last week he sat under the water-drip torture of cross-examination by Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas Murphy, the man who is trying to convict him of perjury. If the Government's accusations were true, Hiss had spent 15 years leading an almost incredible double life, and Murphy was set on proving it. Hiss's face showed the strain of the 28 days of the first trial, of the 23 days so far of this one. The strain was also apparent in the frozen, drawn face of Priscilla, his wife, who sat behind...
There were no dramatics, only a kind of slow suspense. For most of the participants, and to some extent for Alger Hiss himself, the nation's most celebrated trial had become a kind of mechanical, well-mannered nightmare...
...Quarry. At 10:15 every morning, carrying a rolled-up umbrella, wearing rubbers if there is a hint of rain, punctual Alger Hiss, with his wife, climbs the long front steps of Manhattan's U.S. Court House. Crowded in an elevator with half a dozen reporters, lawyers, jurors, he rides up to the 13th floor. Reporters, long since accustomed to his constant, faintly smiling presence, discuss him calmly within his hearing-in the elevator, in the corridor outside the courtroom, in Andre's restaurant near the old World Building. There the Hisses also go for lunch; the management...
...YORK, Jan 5. Docter Alexander 11 Murry '15, lecturer on Clinical Psychology, will testify as a defense witness in the perjury trial of Alger Hiss LL.B. '29, when Claude B. Cross, LL.B. '20, Hiss attorney, calls the faculty member to the stand tomorrow in U.S. District Court...
Earlier in the day, Murphy completed his cross-examination of William L. Marbury LL.B. '24, a member of the Harvard Corporation. Murbury, who is Hiss's attorney in the latter's libel action against Chambers conceded under questioning that former Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson LL.B. '15 had told him in 1947 that Hiss was a Communist...