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He turned up in China, charged with purging the party of spies and dissidents, sent so many men to their deaths that he was known as "The Executioner." He first came to the U.S., according to the FBI, in 1933, as chief liaison man between the party and the Comintern...
At last the door chimes echoed through the house. "Well, child," she said to Edwina, "what are you waiting for?" Poor, flustered Edwina, whose childhood dated back to the days of the St. Louis World's Fair (and whose corset hurt her, besides), stammered, "But, mother, aren't...
It was mainly the work of 77-year-old Monsignor Angelo Mercati, Prefect of the Vatican Archives, who began looking into the papal roster during the reign of the present Pontiff's predecessor, Pius XI. Two centuries ago, Giovanni Marangoni, custodian of the Roman catacombs, made up a list...
His pick-&-shovel men sank a shaft laboriously through layers of "recent" graves. Below the lowest they found what they sought: a great tomb 50 ft. wide and 150 ft. long. It was built of sun-dried mud brick, not finely chiseled stone, for it dated from the dim beginning...
Clippings in the bag, from the Washington Daily News, dated March 1943, evidently cut by Parkhurst himself, showed that he had been classified 1-A by his Cambridge draft board, only to end up as a high WPB official. A Senate investigation disclosed that he later resigned from this government...