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...honor graduate of Johns Hopkins University and a graduate cum laude of Harvard Law School, where he had been a favorite student of Professor Felix Frankfurter. The year was 1929, and he had won the coveted apprenticeship job of law-clerking for Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. He married Priscilla Fansler Hobson, 26, a Quaker a divorcee and the mother of a three-year...
...named, was at the least a dupe of the C.P., and repeated not all but a number of the names he had given Berle. He said that espionage was not the primary purpose of the group, but "espionage was certainly one of its eventual objectives." He testified that Priscilla Hiss was also a member of the party. He said that when he broke from the party he had tried to persuade Alger Hiss to break with him. "He cried when we separated," Chambers said, ". . . but he absolutely refused to break." Most of the people he named stood on their constitutional...
...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...
...silence, the eight women and four men filed into the jury box. From his seat, Alger Hiss looked at each one, his lips set in a tight smile. None returned his look. Priscilla Hiss fingered her handbag, stared straight ahead...
...Chambers, testified Edith Murray, had had only two visitors "that I know of"-a woman and her husband. "Stand up out of that chair and point her out," said Assistant U.S. Attorney Tom Murphy. The witness stood up and pointed unhesitatingly at Priscilla Hiss. "This lady, right there," said Edith. "She came and stayed overnight one time when [Mrs. Chambers] had to go to New York." She also remembered Mr. Hiss. Edith Murray was the first witness to corroborate the testimony of intimacy between the two families. The defense could not shake her story...