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...Priscilla Chapman '67, current director of the RCS, is among the four finalists...
...crisp day in January 1950, Alger and Priscilla Hiss sat in a Manhattan courtroom, he pressing his lips in a tight smile, she fingering her handbag. A federal jury was ready to pass judgment on whether he had lied in denying that he had given secret State Department documents to a Soviet agent in 1938. Intoned the forewoman: "We find the defendant guilty on the first count and guilty on the second." Showing almost no emotion, Hiss and his wife slowly walked out of the room, surrounded by a pack of lawyers and spectators...
...conviction, he insisted that Chambers had forged the 64 typewritten pages used as evidence at the trial. But, in the files of Hiss's lawyers, Weinstein found reports from two experts confirming that the documents were definitely typed on Hiss's Woodstock (serial number: N230099) by his wife Priscilla...
During December 1948 and January 1949, Hiss insisted to the FBI and a grand jury that he did not know what had happened to the typewriter; probably, he said, Priscilla had sold it to a junk dealer. But Weinstein found a letter in the defense files demonstrating that as early as Dec. 1, 1948, Hiss knew that Priscilla had given the typewriter in April 1938 to the son of a former maid. Says Weinstein: "While the FBI searched frantically for the machine, Hiss's brother Donald, aided by the maid's son, traced the typewriter in February 1949 but said...
...Cambridge late in his career.) But Lewis has survived Oxford's judgment handsomely. Sales of Lewis' works in Britain and the U.S. have increased sixfold since his death, and this year readers in both countries will take home more than 2 million Lewis volumes. Says Lady Priscilla Collins, one of Lewis' publishers in Britain: "The trend...