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...Orient, competition among syndicates and news services has cut prices so low that Berrigan can afford to give his 3,500 readers the biggest names in the business: the Associated Press, United Press International and Reuters; Editorial Cartoonist Herblock; Columnists Art Buchwald, Sylvia Porter, Walter Lippmann and Joe Alsop; Pogo and Steve Canyon comics. Berrigan runs no editorials, explains: "We give the news and let intelligent readers form their own opinions...
Behind the elevation of Kintner, a onetime Washington newspaper correspondent (for the New York Herald Tribune) and syndicated columnist (with Joseph Alsop), lay some pretty satisfying sales figures. During the first five months of 1958, thanks chiefly to a vigorous Kintner-Sarnoff policy of boosting news and special-events coverage by 20%, NBC network TV sales were $90.8 million, up a hefty $11 million from $79.1 million at this time last year. This was almost twice the gain registered by the longtime front-runner CBS. (From January through this May, CBS racked up $104,300,000 in network TV billings...
...Arab world. Wherever diplomats drank, voices were heard forecasting that the West was headed for a second Suez, and demanding to know when the West was going to face up to Nasser. U.S. Senator John Kennedy declared that the U.S. stood on the brink of war, while Columnist Joe Alsop cried that another Munich was in the offing. Some argued that it would be madness to send in Western forces to save President Chamoun's regime in Lebanon; others said it would be fatal cowardice...
Noting the signs and wondering how long Khrushchev dared avoid "tidying up" his internal situation, Columnist Joseph Alsop last week quoted a recent dictum of that old student of the Soviet system, former Ambassador George Kennan: "In the Soviet Union today there are just too damned many people who have been left unmurdered...
Last week John Alsop decided to present his credentials to the electorate, announced his candidacy for this year's G.O.P. nomination for governor. If he gets past four other Republican hopefuls at a state convention this June, the least-known Alsop brother will come up against incumbent Democratic Governor Abraham Ribicoff, no egghead, but one of the ablest votegetters in Connecticut...