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...kept alive the case of Anastasia, daughter of Czar Nicholas II, who may or may not have escaped the Bolshevik assassins in 1918; undying interest has given wide hearings to several claimants to the identity of Anastasia. The divergent ideological fevers of mid-century America guaranteed that the Alger Hiss perjury case would stay effectively open right along with the case of the executed spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. The arguments in both trials are still thundering forth in such books as Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case by Allen Weinstein (against Hiss) and We Are Your Sons by Robert...
...into history and out of memory. That so many linger, alive and kicking, speaks mainly of the human urge not only to look at the past but to lug it into the present, reshaping it into folklore. Which is always handy to have around for nourishment and entertainment, Alger Hiss in case the present goes dry.- Frank Trippett
Imagine a Harvard grad ('35) and Washington bureaucrat named Walter Starbuck so scandalously long playing that he gets involved first in Hiss-Chambers and then three decades later in Watergate. Novelist Kurt Vonnegut did, turning the tale into Jailbird, his first book in three years, which will be published this fall. His next book may well take longer to write since Vonnegut, summering on Long Island, has taken to canoeing just as he did as a boy on an Indiana lake. "It is especially pleasant," he explains, resting on his literary oar, "not to paddle...
...McCarthy story is more complicated. Pearson, says Anderson, had an early tip on Alger Hiss's Communist connection but, unable to substantiate it, had turned it over to the Government. And when McCarthy needed evidence to support his wild charges of Reds in Government, Anderson gave him an unsubstantiated tip about one of Truman's speechwriters; a & amp;quot;burn of shame singed through me," he says, when McCarthy denounced the man in the Senate. In time, McCarthy turned on Pearson, who had never been a big fan of the Senator's anyway. Calling Pearson an agent...
...brought prosperity but not a return to pre-Depression normalcy. News, most of it threatening, came thicker and faster: the cold war, Mao's revolution in China, the Alger Hiss case, Korea. At their 1952 conventions, the first to be covered by TV, both parties were forced to consider potential nominees who had challenged the old-line bosses by going over their heads and reaching the public through the channels of journalism. The Democrats stopped Estes Kefauver, but the G.O.P. accepted Dwight Eisenhower. In the end, it mattered less to the delegates that Ike was only a nominal Republican than...