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- Baltimore-born Alger Hiss was a graduate of Harvard Law School. He was a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes and a protégé of renowned legal scholar Felix Frankfurter. He was a counsel to the Nye Committee in Congress when it was investigating the munitions industry in 1934, and in 1936 he was made an aide to the Assistant Secretary of State, specializing in Far Eastern affairs, and later became director of that office in the State Department. In 1946 during testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee investigating alleged Communist "infiltration" in government, Hiss was accused by former Communist Party member Whittaker Chambers of being a Communist and of passing atomic secrets to the Russians. Hiss denied ever being a Communist and said that he had never even met Chambers. Nevertheless, Hiss was indicted for perjury and went on trial in June of 1949. That trial ended in a hung jury. At a second trial in November of that year he was convicted and sentenced to federal prison, where he served 44 months. He was released in 1954.
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A pioneering Hollywood stunt woman, she worked in motion pictures for over 50 years. A world-class athlete, she was a member of the U.S. women's volleyball team, and played in two world championships. At age 50 she was a silver medalist at the Pan-American games in Chicago. She appeared in over 100 films, not only as a stunt person but also as a character actress. Swimming and diving stunts for Dorothy Lamour, stunt double for Vivien Leigh and Donna Reed among others, she received a lifetime achievement award from Women in Film in 1933.- Geoffrey Golden was born in Cork, Ireland. He was an actor, known for Boyd's Shop (1960), Ulysses (1967) and The Spike (1978). He died on 15 November 1996 in Ireland.
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Coby Neal was born on 27 February 1920. He was an actor. He died on 15 November 1996.- Derek Meader was an actor, known for Missing Pieces (1991) and Park Street Under (1979). He died on 15 November 1996 in New York City, New York, USA.