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...stake. So the crowd that crammed a room of Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel last week to watch Italy's best take on a team of six of the best U.S. players was a little surprised when it was urged to break all the un written rules. "Hiss when you want to," said the master of ceremonies. "Cheer or boo or shout. The players can't hear you." The players were comfortably quaran tined behind soundproof glass walls so they would not be disturbed by crowd noise, the monologue of a commentator who mapped the play...
...John Service, when these two men were placed on the sacrificial altar of anti-Communism. Men away from Washington were horrified by the State Department's cowardice in the Ladejinsky affair. Although these incidents did not necessarily demand the approach which Acheson took towards the accusations against Alger Hiss and Owen Lattimore, the lack of any outright defense of the State Department against the incursions of the Congress changed the atmosphere in the Foreign Service. From a feeling that the Secretary would at least attempt to protect their reputations, diplomats have come to realize that they are strictly on their...
High-flying Broadway Producer Roger Stevens, whose off-Broadway enterprises include an interest in Manhattan's 102-story Empire State Building, announced plans to stage a play about the blotted career of convicted Perjurer Alger Hiss...
Having downed two half-kegs of beer in and hour and a half, the milling participants tried to cheer themselves up further by telling each other, "We're not losing by much," and "We're bound to win somewhere." The most spirited reaction of the evening was a loud hiss for Republican National Chairman Leonard W. Hall who was televised singing "Our boy is bound to score...
...spokesman for the Administration in power, he would pitch his campaign largely on the positive side, outlining gains the U.S. has made under Dwight Eisenhower (buried at Nixon's instigation early in the campaign: the potential issue of Adlai Stevenson's character-witness testimony for Alger Hiss...