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...year." Ba wore white organza by Mainbocher; Ma, coral plaid taffeta by Dior. But it was more than that, and the reception at the estate of CBS Chairman Paley proved a crossroads of several worlds: Mr. and Mrs. Winston Guest, Actress Lauren Bacall, Mr. Kenneth (the hairdresser), Columnist Joseph Alsop, Publisher John Hay Whitney, Hollywood's Mike Romanoff, and Douglas Fairbanks Jr., who flew in from London to be one of 19 ushers. Said Paley when the affair was over: "I wish we had a wedding every week. What are we going to do next week...
...another, every journalist who can manage it is entering a book in the political sweepstakes. But Columnist Joseph Alsop seems determined to buck the trend. His offering: From the Silent Earth, a report on the Bronze Age of ancient Greece...
Syndicated columnists lost little time in considering the changes set in motion by Kennedy's death. Two of the best of these pundits focused on the men most closely surrounding the presidency. Columnist Joseph Alsop was pleased by the prospect that President Johnson planned to keep, for a while at least, most of Kennedy's advisers. But there was one for whom Alsop was willing to open the exit door. "Superhuman fortitude will be required," said Alsop, "or a grave disaster will be risked, if Attorney General Robert Kennedy tries to serve another man as he served...
Other papers sent reporters with fresh eyes. The Wall Street Journal dispatched Igor Oganesoff and Norm Sklarewitz; John Cowles's Minneapolis Tribune sent Robert Hewett. Conniff and the rest of the Hearst task force set out for the Far East. So did Columnist Joe Alsop, a talented reporter and longtime Asian expert. Alsop characterized the Saigon correspondents as "young crusaders." He wasted no time reminding his readers that "it is easy enough to paint a dark, indignant picture without departing from the facts, if you ignore the majority of Americans who admire the Vietnamese as fighters and seek...
...Buchwald has more than justified the Tribune's decision to bring him back from Paris, where he played journalistic jester for 14 years (TIME, June 22, 1962). At the time, there were those who doubted that Buchwald would feel comfortable in the presence of such sobersides as Joe Alsop and Walter Lippmann or find anything funny about Washington. But the fears proved groundless. Buchwald simply invented his own Washington...