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Stale Scoop. Quartered in Vientiane's vermin-infested Constellation Hotel, newsmen of necessity pooled their scraps of information. One reporter who did not join the sweaty, sociable circle was Pundit Joe Alsop Jr., who arrived with a copy of Thucydides under one arm, sped off to an air-conditioned room in the residence of U.S. Ambassador Horace H. Smith. Columnist Alsop stealthily cabled what he thought was a scoop on the Laotian appeal to the United Nations. Trouble was that the reporter pool at the Constellation had filed the same story the day before...
...Pundit Joseph Alsop wrote last week that between the time Rockefeller began thinking about running against Democrat Averell Harriman for Governor of New York and Election Day last year, he paid for no less than 134 polls of various sorts. At the time he actually made the decision to run, Alsop said, the polls were running 60-40 against...
...record store, eliminating the need for any actual singing in the parlor, why not a night's recorded conversation, eliminating the need to talk? Possible titles: Sneer Along with Mort Sahl, Rant and Rave with Senator Eastland, Analyze with Famous Freudian and Moan and Groan with Joseph Alsop...
...Alsop as Cassandra
...realiably reported that Joseph Alsop, even as a freshman at Harvard, used to hold sessions in which upperclassmen would come to hear him pontificate. He has been at it so long now that his message has grown stale from overuse and over-stylization. It is well-nigh impossible to give this prophet and his brother the respect which--despite their book--is certainly their...