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...years the story of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg and their mom-and-pop spy ring has been told to the accompaniment of grinding axes. The Stalinist left propagandized the trial and execution of the couple as being a joint venture of fascists and anti-Semites. Never mind that the Soviet Union was busy shooting its own Jews. At the other extreme was FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover intoning "the crime of the century," as if Hitler's recent transgressions had been reduced to a string of drunken driving charges...
Ironically, the release of some 250,000 pages of documents have proved to be a boomerang. The files forge stronger links between Julius Rosenberg and Soviet agents. The case against Ethel for conspiracy to commit espionage is weaker, although she was almost certainly an accessory. The nature of the evidence against Rosenberg Friend and Co-Defendant Morton Sobell suggests that he might have fared better in court had he not suddenly rushed off to Mexico. The Rosenbergs clearly recruited Brother-in-Law David Greenglass. As one of the Government's star witnesses, Greenglass testified that while serving...
...Orson Welles' principal collaborator in the renowned and innovative Mercury Theater. In 1955, when this third volume of his memoirs resumes, Houseman is about to rescue the American Shakespeare Festival at Stratford, Conn., after its wobbly first year. He has just finished a stint as a movie producer (Julius Caesar with Marlon Brando; Lust for Life with Kirk Douglas). He goes on to direct some of Playhouse 90's best episodes, then establishes a superior drama department at Lincoln Center's Juilliard School. Most of the time he is working by the light of at least...
...DIED. Julius J. Hoffman, 87, U.S. district judge who presided over the tumultuous 1969-70 trial of prominent radicals on criminal charges growing out of the riots at Chicago's 1968 Democratic Convention; in Chicago. Hoffman clashed repeatedly with defense attorneys and their clients, ordering Defendant Bobby Seale bound and gagged in the courtroom. An appeals court overturned the five resulting convictions and criticized Hoffman's "deprecatory and often antagonistic attitude" during the Chicago Seven trial...
...Harvard Black Law Student Association (BLSA) decides to protest the class, charging that a tenure-track minority professor, not temporary visitors regardless of their national stature, should be brought to the Law School to teach the class BLSA President Muhammad I. Kenyatta writes to Julius L. Chambers, president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, who is to teach the class...