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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: The Pearson Case | 4/29/1957 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 5, 1956 | 11/5/1956 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIALS: Change of Scene & Situation | 3/28/1955 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIALS: Change of Scene & Situation | 3/28/1955 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Human Yo-Yo | 3/14/1955 | See Source »

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