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...this week's Nation section, TIME re-examines the verdict of guilty reached against Hiss nearly three decades ago. The occasion: the coming publication of Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case, a book by Historian Allen Weinstein that skillfully and diligently re-creates the struggle between the two contrasting men and brings revealing new insights and documentation to the case...
Appropriately, the reporter who interviewed Weinstein for this week's story was Senior Correspondent James Bell, who covered the Hiss trials for TIME. "I had spent all of 1948 on the campaign trail with Harold Stassen, Harry Truman, Earl Warren and Tom Dewey," recalls Bell. "I was the only member of the Washington bureau who was totally ignorant of the case, and I felt none of the emotion that appeared to grip my colleagues who had covered the Hiss story on Capitol Hill. It was precisely for that reason that I was picked to report the trial." For TIME...
Editor in Chief Henry R. Luce deemed Bell's work so fair and thorough that he donated a bound set of the files to Yale University's Law School Library, where Weinstein later studied them for his book...
...cross-examination of Hiss in the second trial that he had committed perjury. He quibbled incessantly on irrelevant matters and skimmed quickly over what was relevant - that, plus the typewriter, the documents and the expert analyses. My perceptions haven't changed over the years; they were reinforced by Weinstein 's book...
Holworthy scored first when Libow pitched out to half-back Glen Fossella, and Fossella passed to Jay Weinstein, who made a leaping catch in the end zone...