| − | Hiss was released in 1954. Disbarred, he became a salesman. Five years later, Alger and Priscilla Hiss separated.<ref>[[#refRicher04|Richer 2004]]: 309 (PDF 3)</ref> In 1956, surrounded by quite a bit of controversy, the [[American Whig-Cliosophic Society]] at [[Princeton University]] invited Hiss as a guest speaker.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=QBBbAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA8-PA31 Princeton Alumni Weekly, Volume 56], Princeton Alumni Weekly, 1955</ref> | + | Hiss was released in 1954. Disbarred, he became a salesman. Five years later, Alger and Priscilla Hiss separated, a year after Hiss' domineering mother died.<ref>[[#refRicher04|Richer 2004]]: 309 (PDF 3)</ref> In 1956, surrounded by quite a bit of controversy, the [[American Whig-Cliosophic Society]] at [[Princeton University]] invited Hiss as a guest speaker.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=QBBbAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA8-PA31 Princeton Alumni Weekly, Volume 56], Princeton Alumni Weekly, 1955</ref> |
| | In the late '60s, Hiss met Mrs. Isabel Dowden Johnson, a former [http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~sch00103 editor at ''The New York Times'' and ex-wife] of [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0170660/bio the Communist]<ref>Cole, who titled his 1981 memoir ''Hollywood Red'', "remained a hardcore Communist" until his death in 1985. Ronald Radosh and Allis Radosh, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=J_BkAAAAMAAJ&pgis=1 Red Star Over Hollywood]'' (San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2005) ISBN 1893554961, p. 29; Cf. Kenneth Lloyd Billingsley, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=YWtZAAAAMAAJ&pgis=1 Hollywood Party: How Communism Seduced the American Film Industry in the 1930s and 1940s]'' (Rocklin, Calif: Prima Publishing, 1998) ISBN 0761513760, pp. 266-267</ref> screen writer Lester Cole, a member of the "Hollywood Ten." Priscilla reportedly had a breakdown, in which she said she was “tired of all the [[#refCapshaw07|lies and cover-ups]],” and complained that "Alger was willing to [http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=28202 sacrifice us all] on the altar of his vindication." Following Priscilla's death in 1984, [https://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/07/nyregion/isabel-j-hiss-91-widow-of-alger-hiss.html Alger and Isabel married]. | | In the late '60s, Hiss met Mrs. Isabel Dowden Johnson, a former [http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~sch00103 editor at ''The New York Times'' and ex-wife] of [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0170660/bio the Communist]<ref>Cole, who titled his 1981 memoir ''Hollywood Red'', "remained a hardcore Communist" until his death in 1985. Ronald Radosh and Allis Radosh, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=J_BkAAAAMAAJ&pgis=1 Red Star Over Hollywood]'' (San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2005) ISBN 1893554961, p. 29; Cf. Kenneth Lloyd Billingsley, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=YWtZAAAAMAAJ&pgis=1 Hollywood Party: How Communism Seduced the American Film Industry in the 1930s and 1940s]'' (Rocklin, Calif: Prima Publishing, 1998) ISBN 0761513760, pp. 266-267</ref> screen writer Lester Cole, a member of the "Hollywood Ten." Priscilla reportedly had a breakdown, in which she said she was “tired of all the [[#refCapshaw07|lies and cover-ups]],” and complained that "Alger was willing to [http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=28202 sacrifice us all] on the altar of his vindication." Following Priscilla's death in 1984, [https://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/07/nyregion/isabel-j-hiss-91-widow-of-alger-hiss.html Alger and Isabel married]. |