New “Hideo Noda” Entry on Wikipedia
I have created a new entry for Hideo Noda (1908-1939) on Wikipedia. Noda was a Japanese-American modernist painter and muralist who gained fame in 1933 after he assisted Diego Rivera on his notorious...
View ArticleTIME Remembers Grapes of Wrath
This week’s TIME magazine issue includes an article called “‘We’re the People’: John Ford’s The Grapes of Wrath at 75” by long-time movie critic and editor Richard Corliss. Corliss contextualizes the...
View ArticleAnother Hiss: Duncan Chaplin Lee
A reviewer argues with author Mark A. Bradley that American spy Duncan Chaplin Lee
View ArticleFBI Vault on Hiss Case
Recently, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has re-posted new versions of its files on Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss to its online “FBI Vault.” For many years, any files about the Hiss Case and...
View Article“Elm Grove” Poem Posted
A poem by Whittaker Chambers now appears here, thanks to Marxists.org: “Elm Grove, W.Va., 1925” from the July 1931 issue of the The New Masses. (If you know the event referenced in the title of this...
View ArticleJames S. Chambers (1923)
Obituary James S. Chambers Veteran Newspaperman Drops Dead on Way Home James S. Chambers, for more than forty years a newspaperman in this city, and known to all newspapermen simply as “Jim” Chambers,...
View ArticlePoem “March for the Red Dead” (1927)
On May 23, 1927, the Daily Worker published the poem “March for the Red Dead” by Whittaker Chambers under his own name: read here.
View ArticleWhittaker Chambers Monument – no thanks
Some family members family have spoken against a possible monument to Whittaker Chambers...
View ArticleWilly Pogany, Million-Dollar Libel-Labeler
1923-Joseph-Pogany “John Pepper” AKA Joseph Pogány – not the brother of Willy Pogany Recently, I came across the proceedings of the 1952-1954 case Pogany v. Chambers and Random House. In October 1952,...
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