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The Warbler ("IT SINGS!") Vol. VI No. 1 (January 1989) (Magazine Journal)
Publius Ultracrepidus; Paul Seabury and A. Lawrence Chickering (Founders); Philip Siegelman (Editor)
Language: English
Published by The Pumpkin Papers Irregulars, Berkeley, California, 1989
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Contact seller5-star sellerMagazine. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the January 1989 issue (Vol. VI No. 1) of "The Warbler ('IT SINGS!')" edited by "Publius Ultracrepidus" (Philip Siegelman) and published by The Pumpkin Papers Irregulars out of Berkeley, California. Most likely issued once per year, a stapled magazine measuring 7" by 8-1/2" and…containing 24 pages including front and rear covers. Contents include: Thinking About 'Witness' by Hilton Kramer (on Whittaker Chambers and his book 'Witness'; a lengthy article originally appearing in the March 1988 issue of 'The New Criterion.' Mr. Kramer writes, "Since ours seems now to have become a chronically amnesiac culture, it may be worth recalling what the nature of this critical reception [upon publication of the book] was in 1952" - with extended comments on Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. and Sidney Hook); book review by Paul Seabury (on 'Recollections of a Life' by Alger Hiss); A Scandalous Script Unravels by Lauren Weiner ("Mr. [John] Chamberlain remembers being present the day 'The New York Sun' reported that his co-worker [Whittaker Chambers] was about to be subpoenaed [by the House Un-American Activities Committee]. 'Now, his face turned sort of white when he read that headline. I was in his office when he read it, and I said, 'Well, what's the matter? You'll just go down and tell them what you know, that's all there is to it.' And Whit said, looking down the hall to the office of a managing editor of 'Time,' 'They don't like informers around here.' But inform he did - and the act would cost him his job at 'Time.' Under the committee's questioning, Mr. Chambers confirmed that he, like Elizabeth Bentley, used Harry Dexter White as a secret contact to try to influence U.S. policy in favor of the Stalin regime. Mr. Chambers added other names to the list, including those of Alger Hiss and his brother, Donald Hiss. Two other ex-communists, Nathaniel Weyl and Hede Massing, would later confirm Alger Hiss as a member of a communist cell. So would Hiss' friend, Noel Field - before Field and his wife were mysteriously imprisoned behind the Iron Curtain in 1949"); A Report on the 1987 PPI [Pumpkin Papers Irregulars] Annual Dinner (Bob Woodward received the annual [Victor] Navasky Prize; United Nations Ambassador Vernon Walters was the featured speaker); 'Pumpkin Papers' Farm Designated U.S. Landmark Despite Opposition by Amy Goldstein; Birding by John V. O'Neill ("Asked about hobbies [House Un-American Activities Committee], Mr. [Whittaker] Chambers, a bird watcher himself, replied that both [Alger] Hiss and his wife were amateur ornithologists; 'They used to get up early in the morning and go to Glen Echo, out the canal, to observe birds,' Mr. Chambers testified. 'I recall once they saw, to their great excitement, a prothonotary warbler'"). The Pumpkin Papers Irregulars, considered by some to be a "secret society," was founded in 1977 in New York City by Paul Seabury and A. Lawrence Chickering to memorialize the Whittaker Chambers-Alger Hiss case, venerate Whittaker Chambers as an early American conservative and patriot, monitor the latest news on the continuing denials of guilt by Alger Hiss and his supporters, and host an annual dinner, on or near October 31 of each year - an Annual Observance Halloween Banquet - where they would award the [Victor] Navasky Prize (Mr. Navasky was a long-time defender of Alger Hiss) to a notable public figure whom they considered to be the most disloyal American. It is likely that this publication, "The Warbler - IT SINGS!" was issued infrequently; the previous issue was most likely published August 1986. Uncommon if not rare.
