Word: toed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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But last week, as Julian Wadleigh, former State Department employee, took the stand, an air of excitement and tension finally came to the courtroom. It was a big moment for Claude Cross, the shrewd, quiet Boston lawyer who had succeeded posturing, lionlike Lloyd Paul Stryker as defense counsel for Hiss...
"Remotely Possible." Shaggy-looking, Oxford-educated Witness Wadleigh admitted that he had been a Communist "collaborator," that he had carried off State Department documents for Chambers and another underground courier named David Carpenter. He had delivered about 400 of them. But he swore that none of the Government's...
"Is it conceivable that you gave these to Chambers? . . ." demanded Cross. Wadleigh admitted that it was "remotely possible," but unlikely.
"I Said to Him." The Government promptly came back with the one sensational new witness of the trial. Over heated objections from the defense it put black-haired, bespectacled Mrs. Hede Massing, ex-wife of Communist Underground Chieftain Gerhart Eisler, on the stand. Mrs. Massing, once a vampish Viennese actress...
What had she said, and what had Mr. Hiss said? "I said to him, 'I understand you are trying to get Noel Field away from my organization and into yours.' He said to me, 'So you're the famous girl who is trying to get Noel...