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Although almost all of Hiss' views have been printed at length in Alistair Cooke's A Generation on Trial, he does expound his lawyers' amazing thesis about the now-famous Woodstock typewriter Number 230099. Hiss devotes considerable space to discussing this typewriter, introduced at both trials by Hiss' lawyers as the machine on which the "Baltimore Documents," a series of sections from State Department papers, were typed. Chambers said that Hiss' wife had typed the documents on that machine, and that Hiss had given the papers to him. Hiss denied this, and this led to one of the perjury counts...
Hiss' lawyers' thesis is that the Number 230099 was a fake, "a deliberately fabricated job . . . planted on the defense." Through a succession of analyses by document experts, metallurgists, and typewriter officials, Hiss' lawyers proposed that Number 230099 is actually an old Woodstock--too old to have been Hiss'--with a set of new typefaces similar in design to those on Hiss' model. The defense asserted that Chambers made this imitation typewriter between August and November of 1948, typed out these documents on them, and then planted the typewriter where the defense would find it later...
...forgery by typewriter." During the trials, the case against Hiss was nailed down by documents which included typewritten pages of secret information that Chambers said Hiss had given him. In an effort to deal with this part of the Chambers case, the defense traced Hiss's old Woodstock typewriter to its new owner and brought it into court during the trial. It turned out to be, indeed, the typewriter that had typed the documents...
...their motion for a new trial, Hiss's attorneys in effect charged: during a brief interval in 1935-36 when Hiss had befriended Chambers, Chambers had stolen some samples of typing from Hiss's old Woodstock; at some time over the ensuing dozen years (for reasons totally unexplained) Chambers had somehow got someone to build a machine that would type exactly like the old Woodstock, had typed the sheets of espionage material, and then planted the fake machine where Hiss's own investigators would find it and bring it into court. This argument was effectively demolished...
...warning was in a sense a testimonial to Graham's prowess as a preacher. But, concluded Father Kelly, "we should all pray for Billy Graham." In the current issue of the Jesuit weekly America, Jesuit Gustave Weigel, professor of ecclesiology at Maryland's Woodstock College, agrees. "Faced with the vast popularity and substantial shortcomings of Graham's 'crusade,' we can only sigh and reflect that we, like him, are also Adam's children, defective and half-blind ... It would ill become us to be harsh or cynical toward a man whose zeal and sincerity...