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...Shocker. Chambers gave a list of men he described as members of the apparatus. Three of them-John Abt (of Henry Wallace's Progressive Party), Victor Perlo (Wallace leader and onetime key worker for the War Production Board), and Charles Kramer (onetime researcher for Florida's Senator Claude Pepper and West Virginia's Harley Kilgore)-were among those previously named by Courier Elizabeth Bentley TIME, Aug. 9). Chambers had other names: Lee Pressman, onetime New Deal legal eagle, later C.I.O. counsel and currently one of Henry Wallace's left-hand men; Nathan Witt, onetime secretary...
Chambers had one more name, and it was a shocker: Alger Hiss. Harvard-trained Alger Hiss (43-year-old brother of 41-year-old Donald) went to Washington as secretary to the late Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, became one of the brightest of the New Deal's young men. He was an assistant counsel with the famed Nye Committee, which investigated the munitions industry and was largely responsible for the Neutrality Acts. For ten years, until 1946, he had been one of the State Department's most trusted...
Communism-U.S. Brand, an ambitious hour-long documentary networked by ABC one night this week, led off with this shocker from the U.S. Communist Party's oath of allegiance, never wavered from its main theme: "The evidence will be ours, the conclusions must be yours...
...vice president in charge of production, was out (TIME, July 12). Like a thousand bumblebees in a clover field, the buzz of Hollywood speculation hung on the question of who would succeed Schary. Secretive Howard Hughes would not say. "It will be," he said, "someone you least suspect, a shocker...
...driven to an absurd extreme the hardboiled, feel-my-muscles style of James Cain and Dashiell Hammett, and, to add cultural tone, has dipped into the bowely bathos of the wasn't-Bix-wonderful, oh-blow-that-beautiful-horn school. The result is a gutter-minded, gutter-tongued shocker of alley-cat sex, sadism and unmourned murders-relieved only by odes to Satchmo's and Muggsy's horn blowing...