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Died. Irving H. Saypol, 71, justice of the New York State Supreme Court who was federal prosecutor in the 1951 espionage-conspiracy trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg; of cancer; in Manhattan. As U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Saypol also supervised cases against Alger Hiss, Judith Coplon and top U.S. Communist leaders...
...judicious details as props, Gavin creates palpable illusions of scenes 150 years old. Schlumberger and a companion stalk the New York waterfront at night: "Now and then they entered the nimbus of a gas lamp hovering just over their heads like a phosphorescing sea creature. Schlumberger heard the sinister hiss behind the glass. One pace beyond the lamp his shadow was squeezing from under his heel squat as a dwarf, and four strides later it was a lanky giant being sucked headfirst into the dark...
...Alger Hiss's conviction for perjury--which at the time Ellsberg believed was justified--was another factor making him "more open to the government account of the Cold War, more skeptical of the radicals," he says. Hiss was a "pillar of the establishment who had lied." A few weeks later, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wis.) had embarked on his campaign to get so called reds and liberals out of office...
...Hiss added that he thought that if Franklin Roosevelt had lived, there would have been a Cold War, but that the "ugliness and vulgarity" which characterized the McCarthy period would have been avoided on the domestic scene...
...questioning after his speech, Hiss said that his defense team hopes for a writ of coram nobis ("our court" in Latin) in federal court next winter. Such a process, Hiss said, allows a litigant to present his case and any wrong-doing on the part of the prosecution and can lead to the reversal of a conviction. He said presently he is attempting to collect evidence for the writ, mainly from FBI files, under the Freedom of Information...