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...Monday, the last day of judgment before the U.S. Supreme Court recessed for summer vacation. It was also, or so it seemed, the last hope before the bar of justice for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. For the sixth time, the mousy little engineer and his wife, waiting in Sing Sing's death house, had petitioned the highest tribunal, this time for a stay of execution and review of their trial. For the sixth time, a majority of the nine Justices rejected a Rosenberg appeal...
...York, Federal Judge Sylvester Ryan gave a five-year prison sentence to lanky William Perl (TIME, June 1), 34-year-old jet-propulsion expert and onetime classmate (Manhattan's City College) of Atom Spies Julius Rosenberg and Morton Sobell. It was "abundantly established," said Judge Ryan, that Perl had deliberately lied when he told a federal grand jury that he did not know Rosenberg or Sobell...
...federal grand jury which indicted Atom Spies Julius Rosenberg and Morton Sobell called Perl in and asked him if he hadn't been palling around with them. He denied it. He denied it again last week in a New York federal court where he was tried for perjury. He repeated over & over, "I do not lie." But other witnesses testified that Perl and the spies (both of whom were his classmates at City College) had been seen together dozens of times and that he had frequently attended meetings of the Young Communist League with them in New York...
...jury found him guilty on two counts of perjury, acquitted him on two others, and recommended clemency. But immediately after the verdict, an assistant U.S. attorney rose and suggested that Perl's troubles were only beginning: the FBI, he said, had information "directly" tying Perl to the Rosenberg spy ring. Perl's $20,000 bail was revoked and he was led off to jail to await further judgment...
...Roger S. Cortesi, New York, N. Y.; Arthur B. Ellison, Hamilton, Mass.; Lee M. Folger, Washington, D. C.; Hamish C. F. Gravem, Orleans, Mass.; William T. Green, Jr., Belmont, Mass.; Arthur B. Harris, Quincy, Mass.; Martin A. Heckscher, Fort Washington, Pa.; Robert C. Milton, Jr., Worcester, Mass.; Lee G. Rosenberg, New York, N. Y.; Landon Thomas, Jr., August, Ga.; Werner R. H. Genieser, Philadelphia...