Word: alsop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Both the Kennedy Administration and Adlai Stevenson have been severely damaged by a recent article in the Saturday Evening Post. Perhaps neither will ever recover completely. The article, written by Stewart Alsop and Charles Bartlett, has inspired innumerable rumors, opinions and theories on Adlai Stevenson's role in the recent Cuban crisis and his career prospects. Yet several well-defined issues emerge from this melee: freedom of Presidential advisers from disclosure and misrepresentation of their advice, the responsibility of the President towards those advisers, and the ruinous irresponsibility of reporters Alsop and Bartlett...
When Washington Post Publisher Philip Graham, 47, stole Columnist Walter Lippmann from the New York Herald Tribune syndicate last month, Graham hinted broadly that more raids might follow. His newest columnar prize is Joe Alsop, another old hand of the Tribune syndicate, whose byline will join Lippmann's in Graham's kit bag. Any more columnists to come? "Well." said Graham. "I could have had another big one, but I didn't want to seem greedy...
...history, had his troubles beating Republican Representative Horace Seely-Brown Jr. in the senatorial race. Ex-Governor Ribicoff ran far behind his ticket mate, Democratic Governor John Dempsey, who appealed to the- voters to "please give me your prayers." Dempsey's Republican opponent, Insurance Man John Alsop, made a point of telling campaign audiences about Dempsey's wonderful smile-while warning them not to believe in it. As it turned out, they liked the smile...
Democratic candidate Abraham A. Ribicoff, former Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, defeated Horace Seely-Brown in the Senatorial race; incumbent Governor John Dempsey (D) won easily over John Alsop. The Democrats also picked up an additional House seat, raising their total in Connecticut to five...
...previous employer, Herald Tribune Publisher John Hay Whitney, came still an even more cryptic explanation: "Mr. Lippmann has felt that since he lives in Washington, he would prefer to have administrative matters connected with syndication handled by a Washington paper." And who else lives in Washington? Joe Alsop-whose contract with the Trib expires next year...