Word: priscilla
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Amid the closing hubbub, Alger Hiss sat motionless, staring straight ahead. Priscilla Hiss watched him, her eyes moist. At last she took his arm and they walked out together. Hiss said, "Please, please," to questions and walked on. Outside, they got into a red Chevrolet with some friends. Photographers rushed to the windows. Alger Hiss hid his face behind a magazine...
...countless trails from New York to Washington to Baltimore. They had dug through old files, turning up bills of sale, bank accounts, letters-even the fragmentary, casual conversations of years past, now of utmost importance. With these minutiae, Assistant U.S. Attorney Tom Murphy fought his duel with Alger and Priscilla Hiss and Defense Attorney Lloyd Stryker. With these minutiae, Murphy sought to convict Alger Hiss, once-bright star of the State Department, of charges that he had perjured himself when he told a grand jury that he had never given State Department secrets to ex-Communist Courier Chambers, and that...
Cool and demure, Priscilla Hiss corroborated almost everything her husband had said. She denied any part of the Chamberses' story which might tie her husband into any Communist plot. Occasionally she rested her white-gloved hands on the arms of the chair, where Esther Chambers, angry eyes snapping through spectacles, had rested her work-hardened hands...
Only when Murphy began cross-examining Mrs. Hiss did her voice tighten. In contrast to Stryker's lashing attack on Esther Chambers, Murphy was a gentle, polite inquisitor. More than once Priscilla Hiss was on the edge of tears. She left the stand looking pale and tired-but with her story, like her husband's, not shaken in most of its details...
...Esther Chambers had testified that Priscilla Hiss was trying to get into a "nursing course" at Baltimore's Mercy Hospital. Priscilla Hiss denied ever discussing such a plan with Esther Chambers. A letter, which on cross-examination she admitted writing, showed that she had applied for admission to a course in inorganic chemistry at the University of Maryland on May 25, 1937, so that she could get credits she needed to get into a training course at Mercy Hospital...