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...years leading an almost incredible double life, and Murphy was set on proving it. Hiss's face showed the strain of the 28 days of the first trial, of the 23 days so far of this one. The strain was also apparent in the frozen, drawn face of Priscilla, his wife, who sat behind the lawyers' cluttered tables in the small, hushed courtroom...
...Chambers got hold of them? What was inexplicable by Hiss's version of the case, Alger Hiss simply did not try to explain. After four days, Murphy ended his crossexamination, and Hiss stepped down. To the stand came Priscilla Hiss, who this week will face the implacable Murphy...
...Samuel Eliot Morison, 62, historian, proper Bostonian, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Columbus (Admiral of the Ocean Sea, 1942), official historian of the Navy (History of U.S. Naval Operations in World War II) and of his alma mater (Tercentennial History of Harvard, 1930-36); and tennis-playing, concert-singing Priscilla Barton, 44, Baltimore socialite; both for the second time; in Baltimore...
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...
...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...