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According to the testimony of Chambers and Nathaniel Weyl, the first functional Red cell in Federal government came into being in 1933. Others followed. The secret work of cell-members was sometimes pure spying, sometimes subtle influence of policy by advancing careerists. Accused of being early cell members were Alger Hiss, Harold Ware, Victor Perlo, John Abt, Charles Kramer, Nathan Witt, Lee Pressman, Henry Wadleigh '33, and Harry Dexter White. The last two, according to testimony, were not organizational Communists but were willing to play ball with the "apparatus." Other once-prominent government officials later accused of espionage activities were...
...Chambers told Adolf A. Berle, then Assistant Secretary of State in charge of security, about his cell and its operations. Berle circulated a confidential memo to high officials describing Chambers' charges; apparently it, received scant attention or belief since many of those named continued to rise in power...
...bustling Mayor Giorgio La Pira are not surprised when he shows up somewhere without his shoes. They know, without asking, that he has given them to the poor. He regularly gives away clothing, food, and most of his salary. A bachelor, he sleeps in an unheated monastery cell or, in very cold weather, in the office of a doctor friend. La Pira is the extraordinary Christian who tries every hour of the day to practice what he reads in the Gospels...
...notable cursee: Judge Lewis J. Smith of Mineola, L.I., who, as Father Divine's followers are fond of noting portentously, died (at 50) some four days after he sentenced Father to jail (for constituting a public nuisance) in 1932. Said Father from his cell: "I hated...
...dullest kind of drudgery. The most tedious job is figuring out the true position of stars from their swarming images on photographic plates. ,The Watson Scientific Computing Laboratory at Columbia University has developed an electronic machine to do most of this task. An operator guides a photoelectric cell to a star image on the plate. The cell automatically finds the center of the image and punches holes in an I.B.M. card. Then an electronic computer observes the holes in the card, figures out the true position of the star in the sky and prints its coordinates in a star catalogue...