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...biggest problem promises to be too many columnists. All three of the old dailies had picked up the habit of accumulating columnists, and last week Conniff faced the task of finding space for Pundits Walter Lippmann, Joseph Alsop, Rowland Evans, Robert Novak, Henry J. Taylor, William F. Buckley Jr., William S. White, Bob Considine and Jim Bishop. For sports, there were Red Smith, Bill Slocum and Jimmy Cannon. And then, besides Buchwald and Schaap, there were Walter Winchell, Harriet Van Home, John McClain, Frank Farrell...
...York Post Publisher Dorothy Schiff, the Justice Department has demanded that some of the syndicated columnists who appeared in the now-defunct Herald Tribune be put on the New York market for competitive bidding. Which means that Mrs. Schiff will have the opportunity to try for Lippmann, Alsop, Buchwald, Evans and Novak. Which columnists she wants, she has not said. "I don't know how the hell she can outbid us unless we get a little complacent," says Conniff...
...make up their minds whether to slug it out toe-to-toe with us or to try to outflank us." The Trib still had stars: Drama Critic Walter Kerr, TV Critic John Crosby, Fashion Editor Eugenia Sheppard, Food Editor Clementine Paddle-ford; Columnists Red Smith, Art Buchwald, Joe Alsop and Walter Lippmann; Pulitzer Prizewinning Korean War Correspondents Homer Bigart and Marguerite Higgins. But while they still provided some bite, the paper had no molars. Able reporters and rewritemen, a paper's lifeblood, were vanishing. Star Reporter Bigart, back from Korea, was appalled at the change and defected...
...brigade of the 25th Infantry Division counted 371 Communist dead after a battle near Pleiku during Operation Paul Revere. "If you look at this war's military aspect without regard to such political factors as instability in Saigon, or hesitancy in Washington," wrote Columnist Joseph Alsop last week, "you have to conclude that the situation is full of promise...
Bleeding Ulcers. High on the list of things that irritated him, he said, was a comment in the Saturday Evening Post by Columnist Stewart Alsop: "The President's passion to know everything and to control everything makes him an immensely difficult man to work for, which surely accounts in part for the bleeding ulcer of the ablest of his aides, Bill Moyers." Said Fleming: "I would suggest it would not have been hard for Stewart Alsop to know, as I knew well before I went to the White House, that Bill Moyers' grandfather died of an ulcer...