Word: historian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brooding, tormented accuser, Whittaker Chambers, who died on his Maryland farm in 1961? Despite a dozen books and hundreds of articles about the case, many of them little more than briefs for one side or the other, the question has not been answered conclusively. Now Allen Weinstein, a respected historian at Smith College, has turned up previously undisclosed evidence that inexorably led him to this unqualified verdict: "The jurors made no mistake in finding Alger Hiss guilty as charged...
Weinstein carefully and persuasively documents his conclusion in an absorbing new book due to appear this spring, Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case* a copy of which was made available to TIME. The historian set out convinced that Hiss was innocent. He changed his mind during five years of research into a mass of records that had never before been studied. Among them were more than 40,000 pages of FBI files, which Weinstein obtained by suing under the Freedom of Information Act. The files of Hiss's own attorneys, which Hiss opened to Weinstein, yielded other revealing facts that were...
...Hiss a Soviet agent? Noel Field, a confessed Soviet agent in the State Department, and his wife Herta fled to Czechoslovakia in 1948 and were questioned by both Czechoslovak and Hungarian security officials. Czech Historian Karel Kaplan, who read the interrogation records 20 years later, told Weinstein that the Fields named Hiss as a Communist underground agent during the 1930s. Indeed, writes Weinstein, "Herta Field, when seized in Prague, initially believed that American intelligence agents had come to kidnap her and bring her back to give evidence against Hiss...
...that he handled masterfully. As President, he frequently urged his aides to read the account of it in his autobiographical Six Crises. "Warm up to it, and it makes fascinating reading," he told H.R. Haldeman. Charles Colson claimed to have read the book 14 times. "The fact is," says Historian Allen Weinstein, "Nixon didn't behave very courageously during the Hiss case. He buckled under pressure...
...most influential personalities in U.S. religion? The Protestant weekly Christian Century asked 35 experts in the religious and secular press and found the "clear winner" to be Evangelist Billy Graham. Other members of the top ten in order of votes received: Church Historian-Journalist Martin E. Marty, President Jimmy Carter, Ecumenical Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum, Notre Dame's President Theodore Hesburgh, Oral Roberts, Campus Crusade's Bill Bright, Jesse Jackson, Anita Bryant and William P. Thompson, the chief executive of the United Presbyterian Church. Lest the survey be taken too seriously, George Burns, star of Oh, God!, got two votes...