Whittaker Chambers https://whittakerchambers.org Witness in the Alger Hiss Case, Anti-Communist, ex-Communist, Spy, Editor, Journalist, Intellectual, Writer, Translator, Poet + Film + Movie Wed, 02 Feb 2022 19:49:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Bambi 1928-2022 https://whittakerchambers.org/2022/02/02/bambi-1928-2022/ https://whittakerchambers.org/2022/02/02/bambi-1928-2022/#comments Wed, 02 Feb 2022 19:49:45 +0000 https://whittakerchambers.org/?p=3411 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 [...]]]> https://whittakerchambers.org/2022/02/02/bambi-1928-2022/feed/ 2 Marzani & Munsell: What’s in a Colophon? https://whittakerchambers.org/2021/10/02/marzani/ https://whittakerchambers.org/2021/10/02/marzani/#comments Sat, 02 Oct 2021 19:25:41 +0000 https://whittakerchambers.org/?p=3393 https://whittakerchambers.org/2021/10/02/marzani/feed/ 1 Chambers Compelled to Stitch Up Hiss https://whittakerchambers.org/2021/08/17/chambers-hiss-stitch/ https://whittakerchambers.org/2021/08/17/chambers-hiss-stitch/#comments Tue, 17 Aug 2021 18:29:17 +0000 https://whittakerchambers.org/?p=3383 https://whittakerchambers.org/2021/08/17/chambers-hiss-stitch/feed/ 4 Willy Pogany, Million-Dollar Libel-Labeler https://whittakerchambers.org/2020/12/29/willi-pogany-million-dollar-libel-labeler/ https://whittakerchambers.org/2020/12/29/willi-pogany-million-dollar-libel-labeler/#comments Wed, 30 Dec 2020 03:27:27 +0000 https://whittakerchambers.org/?p=3362 1923-Joseph-Pogany “John Pepper” AKA Joseph Pogány – not the brother of Willy Pogany

Recently, I came across the proceedings of the 1952-1954 case Pogany v. Chambers and Random House. In October 1952, Willy Pogany (1882–1955) had filed for libel that occurred the [...]]]> https://whittakerchambers.org/2020/12/29/willi-pogany-million-dollar-libel-labeler/feed/ 5 Whittaker Chambers Monument – no thanks https://whittakerchambers.org/2020/09/28/whittaker-chambers-monument-no-thanks/ https://whittakerchambers.org/2020/09/28/whittaker-chambers-monument-no-thanks/#comments Mon, 28 Sep 2020 18:52:49 +0000 https://whittakerchambers.org/?p=3357 https://whittakerchambers.org/2020/09/28/whittaker-chambers-monument-no-thanks/feed/ 1 Withdraw Whittaker https://whittakerchambers.org/2019/03/31/withdraw/ Sun, 31 Mar 2019 22:27:17 +0000 http://whittakerchambers.org/?p=3297 Poem “March for the Red Dead” (1927) https://whittakerchambers.org/2018/10/27/poem-march/ https://whittakerchambers.org/2018/10/27/poem-march/#respond Sat, 27 Oct 2018 20:31:13 +0000 http://whittakerchambers.org/?p=3276

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

]]> https://whittakerchambers.org/2018/10/27/poem-march/feed/ 0 James S. Chambers (1923) https://whittakerchambers.org/2016/09/27/obit-james-chambers/ https://whittakerchambers.org/2016/09/27/obit-james-chambers/#comments Tue, 27 Sep 2016 15:30:54 +0000 http://whittaker-chambers.com/?p=3193

Obituary

James S. Chambers
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 [...]]]> https://whittakerchambers.org/2016/09/27/obit-james-chambers/feed/ 2