Papers, 1907-2000 (inclusive).

Dahl-Wolfe, Louise, 1895-1989

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Louise Dahl-Wolfe (1895-1989) was a photographer who worked for Harper's Bazaar. She was married to sculptor Meyer (Mike) Wolfe. From the description of Louise Dahl-Wolfe and Meyer (Mike) Wolfe Christmas card to unidentified recipient, 194-? (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 779477707 ...

Fast, Howard, 1914-2003

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Popular and prolific novelist Howard Fast was born in New York City. His parents were poor immigrants, and he worked odd jobs as a youth, crediting his love of reading to a job as a page at the New York Public Library. He published his first novel at eighteen, and found early success writing adventures set in America's past. He worked for the Office of War Information during World War II, writing for the radio program Voice of America. A Communist from about 1944-1956, Fast appeared before the H...

Hiss, Alger

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Alger Hiss (1904-1996) was born in Baltimore, Maryland and educated at Baltimore City College, Johns Hopkins University and Harvard Law School. During the new Deal period he worked as an attorney at the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, in the Solicitor General's Office at the Justice Department, as Assistant Secretary of State and in other positions in the State Department, and as a member of the U.S. delegation to the Yalta conference in 1945. He served as Secretary General of the United...

Johnson, Malcolm, 1946-

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Hiss, Isabel Dowden Johnson, 1908-2000.

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Model, writer, editor, and widow of Alger Hiss, Isabel (Dowden) Johnson Hiss was born and raised in Montclair, N.J., the only child of Elsie (Ruckelshaus) and Dawson Dowden. She graduated from Montclair High School in 1926 and went to Syracuse University, where she met Malcolm Perry Johnson, a student at St. Lawrence University whom she married in 1931. A well-known model in Paris and New York, she was photographed by Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Edward Steichen, and Alfred Stieglitz, among others, and mo...

Cole, Lester, 1904-1985

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Cole (1904-1985) was a screenwriter who did most of his writing in the 1930s and 1940s. He was among the "Hollywood Ten," the ten movie directors and writers who in 1947 refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee for suspected Communist activities. Cole was imprisoned for contempt of Congress and served a one year prison term. The imprisonment for the most part ended his career, although he did write a few more screenplays including "Born Free" in 1965 using the pseudon...