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...subtitle of this book is misleading. Messrs. Lasky and do Toledano call their book "The True Story of the Hiss-Chambers Tragedy" and thus imply that they are offering the readers the fruits of a careful and deliberate search for the truth of the highly controversial Alger Hiss case...
...authors (both veteran newsmen) have failed to meet the minimum standards of a search for the truth. The first half of the book--dealing with the pre-1948 activities of Hiss and Chambers--falls down for the simple reason that the authority for most of the information is one man: Whittaker Chambers. A Federal jury in New York accepted Chambers' testimony in convicting Hiss of perjury; this writer does not challenge the verdict. But the jury's decision does not mean that one must accept on faith every statement that Chambers had made in and out of court...
...endless search for a criminal substance which can be proved guilty of causing the explosive growth of cancer cells, suspicion has settled on an enzyme, hyaluronidase, already known to be a "spreading factor." Last week a slim, blonde, 24-year-old graduate student at the University of Wyoming announced that she had picked up another jot of evidence against hyaluronidase: it is found in abnormally large amounts of sarcoma (cancer of the connective tissues) in mice -a disease much like human sarcoma...
...Moral sensitiveness is not an easy matter. The very qualities which lead to insight, devotion, and generosity, all of which Professor Matthiessen had as a teacher, are subject to doubt and strain. They do not grow from contentment and security, but from search and perhaps from insecurity...
...they got to Mission San Gabriel, near the "pueblo of Los Angeles." Nobody took any note of it at the time, but "Smith's appearance in California marked the completion of the Anglo-American's long march across the continent, the fulfillment of his age-old search for a highway to the western...