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...Alsop and Kintner) and author (Men Around the President), became boss of a network with annual billings of $43,734,845, a net loss of $519,085. By last year, however, ABC's TV billings alone had climbed to $51,393,434, and it was operating in the black (in the first nine months this year, American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres' earnings were up to $6,616,000 from $5,286,000 last year). Kintner also built up his programming with top TV shows (Omnibus, Lawrence Welk, Disneyland, Bishop Sheen), expanded ABC's network...
...this week provoked his erstwhile admirer, Columnist Stewart Alsop, to write: "Failure to communicate is Stevenson's great weakness, which he must somehow overcome in the few campaign weeks that remain if he is to have, a ghost of a chance of winning." -It is the 22nd Amendment (1951), not Ike's age, that limits him to two terms, will likewise limit all subsequent Presidents...
...studying the skies (large parts of Missouri, Colorado, Oklahoma and Iowa, as well as Kansas, are suffering from drought) and the statistics (Republicans cringed at an Agriculture Department report last week showing that farm prices had gone down by .5% between mid-August and mid-September). Wrote Columnist Stewart Alsop under a What Cheer, Iowa dateline: "Candidate Eisenhower is in deep, deep trouble in the typical Midwestern farm community which surrounds this small town...
Columnist Joseph Alsop alternated deep thinking with strenuous legwork. went doorbell ringing in Portland and Seattle to talk with the voters. His findings: 1) the big issue with most people is foreign policy, i.e., peace; 2) voters have made a switch from Ike to Stevenson that may put Oregon and Washington into the Democratic column. But Alsop cautioned: "In most cases, the switchers had made their decisions without passion or violent conviction. Their decisions, one felt, might be changed later...
...Alsop pursued the contrasts to Dhahran, where Saudi Arabian workmen drew top pay as technicians at Aramco's vast refinery while some of their countrymen bought and sold slaves ($150 for an able-bodied man, $300 for a boy and $600 for a girl). Though he reported that King Saud was using his U.S. oil dollars to finance Arab nationalism's whole anti-Western drive-paying some $500,000 a month to politicians and editors in the Middle East-Alsop found him playing the role reluctantly, the captive of the movement centering in Egypt...