thanks

Having known, Alger Hiss very well, I can just see him reacting with a half smile to this one.

Would it be wrong to mention my own book, which would've been made into a doc if not for public TV cuts. It's called "Rewriting Hisstory." I only needed 50 years to prove Alger Hiss was innocent. As a journalist, I get bored with stiff his(s)tory books and tried to turn the story into a page turner.

First day j-school. "Go to a nayb; find its story." I hung with drug dealers in a Queens park & wrote it that way. Ed. said, You're not the story.

Spent decades on a book solving the Hiss case. I kept myself out. But you're part of the story, my ed. said. I rewrote it reluctantly, but it worked

i had a 45-minute argument with it about Hiss; It was frightening if this is the future of research. It like having an argument with the far right. Every time I would corner it with facts, it would just change the subject. Regarding my book, it just quoted Commentary not the substance of my book

as long as you don't say "nuke-u-lar."

I didn't know it at all. It doesn't seem to have a search function, but you know it raises an interesting question, but probably better to DM you.

I'm trying to figure it out. There are a lot of disks, and I haven't gone through them yet. I'm hoping for one that has that entire draft on there.

It does have some similarity. Funny thing, I've been going through old papers and found most of the original book before I cut it down from 1400 pages. I'm trying to decide what to do with it.

In'73, there was a report on the Jordanian station (the kibbutz only had one TV) that George Foreman beat Joe Frazier and was now the heavyweight champ. There were no pictures, and the kibbutz people were all excited because they thought Foreman was Jewish. I was the one who had to set them straight

very true about Jordanian TV. I remember watching the news anchored by a guy wearing a weird tie, and the two big shows were Ironsides and Family Affairs. No one would attend a kibbutz meeting if it conflicted with Ironsides.

it is fascinating. I was in Israel when the actress who played Buffy from the old show Family Affair made a tour and the Israelis were so excited that a couple of people fell through a plate glass window in the middle of the hubbub. The No. 1 on TV there was "Ironsides." Go figure.

It's mostly at Harvard now.

Completely and totally right, Hiss was proven innocent decades ago.

Gosh, I've forgotten the original post, and how did you know Elinor?

Once their playing careers are over, athletes' lives often become much less interesting; retired in their '30s, sitting around the house all day with their feet on the furniture, depressed over the lack of competition and adoring crowds; think DiMaggio and Marilyn. think divorce & yup, song fodder.

Whittaker Chambers told the FBI that he stopped being gay when he left the Communist Party, which was pretty funny (by the way, we corresponded about my book on the Hiss case It's out now, called "Rewriting Hisstory."_