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...November 1937, and the withdrawal of $400 from Hiss's bank account just a few days before; the Chamberses' detailed accounts of the Hiss homes which the Chamberses said they had visited during those critical years; the Chamberses' onetime maid who identified Alger and Priscilla Hiss as callers...
...scandalous book of a local schoolmaster. The action centers about the local Canon, who, with classical dignity, decides the provincial efforts of the townspeople to burn the txe publically with malicious ceremony--but he dismisses the teacher. The balancing force in this conflict is Brigid, the Canon's maid, who is in communication with her namesake, St. Brigid, and who has a longing to become a nun. Although the play admits of no explicit and patent interpretation, I would venture the theory that Brigid, in her simple piety, open love and semi-martyrdom at the end represents the core...
...inconspicuous as any of the other 1,100 guests at the wedding of Treasury Secretary John Snyder's hearty, handsome daughter Edith ("Drucie") to John Ernest Horton, a personable former White House social aide, soon to be a movie pressagent. Drucie's best friend, Margaret Truman, was maid of honor...
...prosecution had saved its biggest surprise for its rebuttal-a small, quiet-spoken Negro woman named Edith Murray. The FBI had been looking for months for a maid called Edith who had worked for the Chambers in Baltimore, where, the Hisses both swore, they had never visited the Chambers...
...fortnight before Fieldsend's trial date, Bertie Holliday registered at the Wheatsheaf Hotel, Virginia Water, Surrey, asked to be called at 9 o'clock next morning. When a maid tried to waken him, she found him dead; he had shot himself with a pistol-walking stick. Detectives checked the suicide, found that they had their jewel thief; Fieldsend was Holliday, and Barry had killed Bertie...