Whittaker Chambers

Obituary James S. Chambers 1 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, dropped dead last night on Eighth and Brown streets, while on his way home at the close of his duties at the Public Ledger office, where he had been in various editorial capacity for twenty-one years. Mr. Chambers was 69 years old.

On May 23, 1927, the Daily Worker published the poem “March for the Red Dead” by Whittaker Chambers under his own name:  read here.

National Review promised to publish our piece on why the Whittaker Chambers Family opposed NRI’s “Whittaker Chambers Award” as of this weekend, March 30-31, 2019. With a few hours of weekend left, we decided to help NR fulfill its promise. Vladimir Putin and Joseph Stalin (from Euromaidan Press) Read here to find out why we had National Review stop making this award.

Whittaker Chambers farming (1949) Some family members have published the following statement with regard to a possible monument or statue or other public remembrance of Whittaker Chambers: Family says no thanks to Whittaker Chambers monument Maryland State Senators Justin Ready (R-District 5) and Michael Hough (R-District 4) recently announced their intent to submit the name of Whittaker Chambers (our grandfather) for a proposed National Garden of American Heroes in South Dakota.

August 25, 1901 (BALTIMORE): Dr. A.T. Chambers finds himself stitching up the severe wounds of Benjamin F. Hiss, shortly after Hiss had shot neighbor Howard A. Coleman. The story’s coincidences include an account from “Mrs. Hiss.” COLEMAN IS SHOT Benjamin P. Hiss, Republican Politician, Arrested. TWO BULLETS TAKE EFFECT Wounds Not Considered Serious, Unless Blood Poisoning Should Set In. “Family Troubles,” Says Hiss. Benjamin F.

Carl Marzani (undated) Some time after his release from prison in 1951, Carl Marzani started new book ventures with Little & Brown’s book editor Angus Cameron. By 1955, these efforts included the book publisher Marzani & Munsell. They went on to ride the wave of the New Left. Their author list included almost half of the Hollywood Ten: Alvah Bessie, Herbert Biberman,Ring Lardner, Jr., and Albert Maltz.

1928 Cover of Bambi: A Life in the Woods, illustrated by Kurt Wiese, translated by Whittaker Chambers The Wall Street Journal published a letter to the editor in reply to its recent review of one of the new 2022 translations of Bambi: A Life in the Woods, written by Felix Salten in 1923 and published in 1928 with illustrations by Kurt Wiese and translation by Whittaker Chambers. ‘Bambi,’ Whittaker Chambers and the Art of Translation A grandson defends the ex-spy’s less-famous literary work. Jan.

Monday, Mar. 08, 1948 Religion: Faith for a Lenten Age (See Cover) It was Lent. On Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue, a woman and a little girl were stopped by the traffic at a cross street. On the opposite curb stood a young man with an Ash Wednesday mark on his forehead. “Look,” said the little girl. “Mustn’t point,” said the woman. “But mother,” asked the little girl, “why has he got that black mark on his forehead?” “Hush,” said her mother.

Monday, Feb. 12, 1940 Cinema: The New Pictures The Grapes of Wrath (20th Century-Fox). It will be a red rag to bull-mad Californians who may or may not boycott it. Others, who were merely annoyed at the exaggerations, propaganda and phony pathos of John Steinbeck‘s best selling novel, may just stay away. Pinkos who did not bat an eye when the Soviet Government exterminated 3,000,000 peasants by famine, will go for a good cry over the hardships of the Okies.