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Hiss stood confronting Chambers, his face angry and set. He asked Chambers to talk. Chambers began: "My name is Whittaker Chambers . . ." While Chambers went on, finally reading from an old copy of Newsweek, Hiss walked slowly over to him, examined him from every side, asked him to open his mouth wider. Hiss looked hard at Chambers' teeth. He asked: "Are you George Crosley?" Chambers quietly replied: "Not to my knowledge." He remarked that Chambers' voice seemed less resonant than Crosley's, that his teeth were less stained. But when Chambers explained that he had been fitted...
General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz, who retired recently after 32 years as an Army airman, ten months as Air Force Chief of Staff, roared off into a new wild blue: military and air consultant for Newsweek...
Wallace started by getting the wrong foot in his mouth. He read a letter by George Polk, the CBS correspondent whose murder in Greece (TIME, May 24, July 5) is still unsolved. Next he attacked Newsweek (Folk's former employer), CBS and the press in general for not doing enough to clear up the crime. Perhaps he was trying to ingratiate himself with the newsmen by showing concern for their rights; more probably he was chiding them. In any case, he made the correspondents angry. Wrote Britain's discerning Rebecca West: ". . . Never have I seen ... such a miracle...
...face and format, new talent and backers. Page One, unlike other New York tabs, would change from a poster to a news page. Inside, by Joe Barnes's decree, news and comment would be finally divorced. On the editorial page, run by George Wells, lately of Newsweek, the signed editorials were out; from now on the paper would speak for itself...
...Trib, which had shouted the loudest against the plan, accusingly ticked off a list of beneficiaries, including the New York Times and Herald Tribune, LIFE, TIME, Newsweek and Reader's Digest (all of which publish foreign editions) and the A.P., U.P. and I.N.S...