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RT @JessBravin: @joshtpm As noted in our report, @whittakerchambe rs's translation of "Bambi" remains in print (from @simonschuster). 6 months ago

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Whittaker Chambers (1901-1961) was a TIME senior editor and translator (including Bambi), best known as the former spy who, under HUAC subpoena, accused Alger Hiss and six other former Federal employees of Communist Party allegiance, leading to the Hiss-Chambers Case (1948-1950), and recounted in his memoirs, Witness (1952): more at http://www.WhittakerChambers.org/

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