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Pearson's answer only raised a new question: Had a disloyalty charge against Diplomat Norman-even though it proved to be false-stood for ten years without getting a thorough check from External Affairs? And there was still the unchallenged statement of Orientalist Karl Witt-fogel, an ex-Communist, that he had known Norman as a Communist...
Divorced. By Jayne Mansfield, 23, Broadway blonde (Witt Success Spoil Rock Hunter?): Publicity Agent Paul Mansfield, 26; after six years of marriage, 21 months of separation, one child (Jayne Marie, 5); in Los Angeles...
...Witt's End. Matusow went to El Paso to testify that he had lied when he helped to convict Clinton Jencks, an official of the Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers' Union, which was thrown out of the C.I.O. in 1950 for being Communist-dominated. On the strength of Matusow's recanting, Jencks, who had been convicted of falsifying a non-Communist affidavit, was requesting a new trial. The motion was being heard before Federal District Judge Robert Thomason, a onetime Democratic Congressman with a reputation as a liberal and a first-class lawyer. Judge Thomason changed the situation...
When Communist Lawyer Nathan Witt, representing Jencks, refused to answer whether he is now or ever has been a Communist, Judge Thomason threw Witt out of court. He held that a lawyer has a special duty to deny himself the protection of the Fifth Amendment in a case where he is counsel. After hearing the evidence, Judge Thomason made two more clear-cut decisions. He denied Jencks's motion. for a new trial, and then he turned to the Matusow problem...
Matusow, careful to avoid incriminating himself, was thoroughly briefed by attorneys (including Communist Nathan Witt). In one day he invoked the Fifth Amendment more than a dozen times, and, while flaunting his falsehoods, he never once confessed to perjury. Throughout the hearings Communist Hero Matusow revolved like a sort of human yoyo, pulled carefully back and forth by the party's invisible strings...