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...ABOARD WITH E.M. FRIMBO by ROGERS E.M. WHITAKER & ANTHONY HISS 235 pages. Grossman...
Whitaker-Frimbo and Co-Author Anthony Hiss have compiled a tingling compendium of great train rides, past and present. Some that Frimbo describes, like a Washington-Mexico City-San Diego odyssey aboard the privately owned Pennsylvania, are for the chosen few. Other trains that he recalls, now "annulled forever, the tracks torn up." include the old Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn, India's His Highness the Nizam's Guaranteed State Railway, and that sans pareil the London-Edinburgh Flying Scotsman, now privately owned by a wealthy English railroad...
...exception for law-enforcement investigatory records, for example, was recently cited to protect Federal Bureau of Investigation files on the Alger Hiss-Whittaker Chambers case. Attorney General William Saxbe reversed an earlier decision to disclose and decided instead that FBI techniques and informers would be compromised, even though the case is a quarter-century old. Angered, Smith College Historian Allen Weinstein will now press his claim in court under the act's provision for judicial review. He may not have much luck. Judges have upheld similar bureaucratic refusals when a Congressman sought reports on the My Lai massacre investigation...
...today many public men must sympathize with Satan in Milton's Paradise Lost, who hears "On all sides, from innumerable tongues/ A dismal universal hiss, the sound/ Of public scorn." It is a period in which reputations seem extraordinarily vulnerable, in which everyone's bank of prestige faces...
Died. Claude B. Cross, 80, cherubic Boston trial lawyer whose skills in jugular cross-examination failed to save alleged Communist Agent Alger Hiss in 1950 in his second trial for perjury, one of the major courtroom dramas of the cold war era. (The principal witness against Hiss was ex-Communist and former TIME Senior Editor Whittaker Chambers.) Cross remained convinced of his client's innocence, and was preparing a motion to re-admit Hiss, who is now lecturing and writing, to the Massachusetts bar when he succumbed to cancer in Brookline, Mass...