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McDowell: Yes, I am. By the way, Mr. Hiss, did you ever see a prothonotary warbler...
...Hiss: Yes, I have. It's a beautiful bird. I saw one down by the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal...
Beautiful Bird. When Alger Hiss was ushered into another secret hearing last week, the committeemen led him carefully back over the same ground. He confirmed the arrangements of his apartment. He also remembered his old car, a 1929 model A Ford. To a question about his hobbies, he replied: tennis and ornithology...
Deep-Voiced Man. With that, the committeemen informed Hiss coldly that his testimony corroborated Chambers' in detail. How could he explain such point-by-point testimony from a man he said he had never met? Hiss produced a note pad from his pocket. On it, he said, he had written the name of the only man he had ever known who might possibly fit Chambers' description. The name was "George Crosley...
According to Hiss, "Crosley" was a free-lance writer who had come to him when he was an investigator for the Nye Committee (which investigated the munitions industry during 1934 and 1935). Crosley had asked for help and material in preparing a series of articles. The next summer, Hiss went on, he had sublet his apartment to Crosley, since he had already moved into a house on Georgetown's P Street. Because Crosley also needed a car, said Hiss, he made his old Ford a part of the deal...