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...omitted a significant item in the story on Whittaker Chambers [July 21]. Chambers had in the Congressional hearings charged that Hiss had been a Communist. Hiss challenged Chambers to repeat the charge outside of the Congressional hearings without immunity so that. he could bring suit against him. It was at that point that I asked Chambers to appear on Meet the Press, in order to learn whether he would accept the challenge and answer a question about Hiss's Communism. In his book Witness, Chambers said that the answer to the question was the most important that he ever...
...will remember that after Chambers had appeared on Meet the Press and had said that Hiss was a Communist, Hiss did not sue for a while. Editorial after editorial throughout the country commented on the fact, and when the Washington Post, one of Hiss's staunch defenders, challenged Hiss to make good on his challenge to Chambers, he felt he had no alternative but to start suit. The rest, of course, is history...
...After the public accusation, Hiss filed suit for libel in Baltimore, asking $75,000 damages. In a pretrial hearing, Hiss's lawyers challenged Chambers to show proof of his relationship with Hiss, and Chambers produced the famous "pumpkin papers." They were yielded to the Department of Justice, which in turn called back the grand jury. The grand jury then indicted Hiss for perjury, the count on which he was convicted and sentenced at his second trial. A year later, the libel suit was dismissed for lack of prosecution...
...Church Control. That might spell grief, but New College has advantages. One is debonair Philip H. Hiss, 51, a prosperous Sarasota real estate man and now chairman of New College's board of trustees. A jack-of-all-arts who never went beyond prep school (Choate), Hiss satisfied his itch to be an architect by designing his own Sarasota home, a $200,000 waterfront edifice of ceramic brick and blue aluminum. In 1953, appalled at the state of Sarasota schools, Hiss wound up as the first Republican elected to the school board since Reconstruction days. Result: a Hiss-bred...
Died. Whittaker Chambers, 60, eloquent, eye-opening ex-Communist whose 1949 testimony sent Alger Hiss to prison; of a heart attack; in Westminster, Md. (see THE NATION...