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...Which statement is a horse laugh at the officious, twittering host who self-righteously wear the badge stenciled liberal. Kennedy has fled this loose company." Said the Detroit News: "For good team-picking, we cannot remember an incoming President who has done as well as Kennedy." And Columnist Joseph Alsop almost flung his Cassandra robes into the flames: "Unless the signs deceive, a new Administration with an exceptional level of human competence will be the final result of the methodical manhunt that President-elect Kennedy has been conducting...
Defense: Missouri's Stuart Symington, onetime Truman Air Force Secretary, who has been working up a Defense Department reorganization plan; Washington's Henry ("Scoop") Jackson; General Dynamics Chairman (and former Truman Army Secretary) Frank Pace. Pundit Joe Alsop predicted the picking of Byron ("Whizzer") White, Denver lawyer, All-America football star and national chairman of Citizens for Kennedy...
...Athletic Syndrome. One of the most pro-Kennedy of all the pundits, both before and after the July Democratic National Convention, is Syndicated Columnist Joseph Alsop, who insists that he believes only in "factual impartiality." To Alsop, Kennedy is a "marvelous natural athlete," Nixon a "self-made athlete, somewhat synthetic, if you will." The Nixon campaign pitch, Alsop finds, has "much emotion but almost no facts at all. It has the uniformity, and. some would say. the approximate intellectual consistency of toothpaste." But Kennedy's language is "elevated, even literary, for this man is something of an artist with...
...Dangerous, Damaging." Last week, however, Pollster Gallup had at least one cause for satisfaction: Poll Taker Alsop's own methods were under fire. A longtime believer in bloc voting, Alsop recently reported on surveys that he had made in New York of the Jewish, Negro and Catholic votes. Catholics, he said, were not committed to Kennedy, but "if Kennedy can just give the impression that he knows how to deal with Fidel Castro, he will solve all his problems." The Democrats "ought to do well with the Negro voters this time, unless our 52-voter sample was seriously misleading...
...reaction came from Alsop's readers, many of whom resented being lumped in religious and racial blocs. Wrote Philip L. Winter, chairman of the American Council for Judaism, to the New York Herald Tribune: "Joseph Alsop's column entitled 'The Jewish Vote' is dangerous, damaging . . . Mr. Alsop has magnified nine-repeat, nine-voter switchers from the Republican column in 1956 and 20 from the Republicans in 1958 into his conclusion that covers all of 'New York's Jewish voters...