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...Alger Hiss walked out of the Lewisburg (Pa.) federal penitentiary in December 1954-on parole after serving 44 months of a five-year sentence for perjury -he carried under his arm a package wrapped in Manila paper. Assuming that the package held his notes and papers, reporters asked if he intended to write a book. Replied Hiss: "I certainly intend to do some writing." Last fall the literary grapevine buzzed with the news that Manhattan Publisher Alfred Knopf had bought the Hiss manuscript, and the gossip columns predicted that it would be one of the sensations of the year...
Temporarily sprung from the Lewisburg, Pa. federal pen to testify before the Senate's Internal Security subcommittee, Atom Spies Harry Gold (doing a 30-year stretch) and David Greenglass (15 years) provided some intriguing marginal notes to the history of U.S. treason. Admitting that the Russians had done "a superb psychological job" on him, onetime Philadelphia Chemist Gold, 45, drew snickers in the Washington hearing room when he debunked the "trash" written to explain why he turned traitor. Said he of one theory: "I haven't been uniformly successful in love, but I didn't get into...
Although Princeton University was rigged for trouble, the campus appearance of Alger Hiss, convicted perjurer and disbarred lawyer, in his first public speech since his release from the Lewisburg federal pen in 1954, turned out to be tame and dull. Protesters that morning had tried to warm Hiss's reception by decking the campus with some 100 papier-mâché pumpkins containing photographs of a Woodstock typewriter and microfilm, reminiscent of the pumpkin papers and other evidence that convicted him. Dawn also unveiled three signs protesting "Traitor" in foot-high red letters. But ex-State Department Employee...
...couldn't stop Cornell's winged-T, and was defeated, 20-7, it was out-rushed by a passing Dartmouth team, 14-9. But the biggest ignominy was suffered last Saturday when a Bucknell squad from Lewisburg, Pa., had the Crimson with its back to the goal for most of the second half, and the varsity was just able...
...Selective Service classification changed 15 times, and each time he reverted to 1-A; with the help of influential friends, he got away. He finally met defeat, in the form of a two-year sentence and a $50,000 fine for draft evasion. While he was in Lewisburg Penitentiary his wife divorced him for, among other misdemeanors, knocking her unconscious and ripping off her clothes (last week in California, Laurette described Serge as "very kind...