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...fine spring day, the general bundled himself and his wife into a car, drove out to Connecticut to see the dogwoods in bloom, pay what was described as a social call on Remington Rand President James H. Rand, who had offered him a job, reportedly at $100,000 a year. The papers were full of reports that MacArthur had also been house hunting on Connecticut's Contentment Island, but a MacArthur aide denied the stories...
Often First. The show's guests are not only newsworthy, but increasingly newsmaking. On Meet the Press, Whittaker Chambers touched off the series of events that led to the conviction of Alger Hiss, and Elizabeth Bentley publicly accused William Remington of being a Communist. Governor Dewey used Meet the Press for his first public statement of support of Eisenhower for President, and New Mexico's Senator Clinton Anderson seized his opportunity there to nominate Truman for a third term in 1952. General Bedell Smith, in 1949, said he was certain the Russians had the atom bomb, and Federal...
Thus young (33), brilliant (Phi Beta Kappa), Dartmouth-trained Bill Remington was publicly and legally branded a liar for saying that he had never been a Communist. He was convicted for perjury, but even graver was the implication that he had passed on to fellow Communists secret information to which he had access when he was working for the WPB. Remington was whisked off to jail for the night. Next day, pale but calm, he stood before Judge Noonan and received the maximum sentence for perjury: five years in jail and a $2,000 fine...
...week's end, Remington was still free. The U.S. court of appeals had continued his bail, and his attorneys had filed an appeal, contending that twelve "substantial" errors were committed during his trial...
...name that cropped up often during the Remington trial was back in the news. Mrs. Elizabeth Moos, Remington's former mother-in-law, was one of the five sponsors of the Peace Information Center, publicity agents for the Stockholm Peace Appeal, who were indicted by a federal grand jury in Washington for failure to register as foreign agents. Another of the five: Dr. William E. DuBois, 82, Negro writer, who ran for the Senate on the New York American Labor Party ticket last fall...