WHITTAKER CHAMBERS REMEMBERED
Twenty-five years ago, on July 9, Whittaker Chambers died. He was born on April Fools' Day in 1901; he died, then, by contemporary standards, a relatively young man. When he agreed to give witness, he resigned from the editorial board of Time magazine, an act both of chivalry and of duty: Time would need, in the months ahead, to report on the greatest courtroom drama since William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow fought about whether we are ...