THE JUDICIARY Change of Scene
Next time Alger Hiss stood trial for perjury in connection with the Whittaker Chambers "pumpkin papers" espionage case (TIME, Aug. 16, 1948 et seq.), he wanted some changes made. Dispensing with the flamboyant talents of Manhattan Lawyer Lloyd Paul Stryker (who got a hung jury last time), Hiss hired a new lawyer: Mississippi-born, Harvard-trained Claude B. Cross, 55, a conservative Bostonian who specializes in business law, but who donated his services in 1947 to the defense of convicted Traitor Douglas
Chandler. Then Hiss asked Manhattan's U.S. district court for...
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