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The same year that Red-Ucators appeared, Alger Hiss went on trial in New York as a result of evidence gathered in an investigation by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Hiss had graduated from Harvard Law School in the thirties, and while in Cambridge had been on the...
Died. Carole Tyler, 26, party-loving former private secretary to ex-Senate Majority Secretary (and Lyndon Johnson protege) Bobby Baker, who took the Fifth Amendment 22 times in 50 minutes while testifying at the 1964 Senate investigation of his tangled finances; of injuries received when the light plane in which...
Bolling had been a protege of Speaker Sam Rayburn, and as such a spokesman for the establishment with which the DSG was frequently at odds. At the same time, however, Bolling, as a convinced liberal, took part in Study Group activities. DSG leaders have remarked that Bolling would come to...
> Chairman Earle Gilmore Wheeler, 57, is a handsome, strapping West Pointer who, with the exception of five months in a World War II combat area, has served his entire Army career at desk jobs far removed from battlefields. A onetime math instructor at the academy, Wheeler still doodles with algebraic...
Johnson has no illusions about his ability to reshape and reform U.S. life in four years. Although he was an admirer and a protege of Franklin Roosevelt, he still disparages the zealous young New Dealers who sought sweeping national changes overnight. And one of F.D.R.'s few faults, Johnson...