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Poor Prophets. Ike's decision made some newsmen seem poor prophets. Notable example: U.P.'s Merriman Smith, who had staunchly insisted in stories that Ike would not run. A week after Ike's heart attack Columnist Joseph Alsop bet Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth what he warily described as "a substantial sum" that the President would not run again. He gave her 100-to-1 odds. "Then things looked better," said Alice Longworth, "and Joe tried to buy the bet back. Well, he couldn't do that, so he got me to reduce...
Columnists JOSEPH & STEWART ALSOP...
...Republican New York Herald Tribune, Columnists Joseph and Stewart Alsop reported: "Now almost everyone with access to the President believes that he means to run, bar unusual fatigue or a medical red light...
...Honolulu last week, J.C.S. Chairman Admiral Arthur W. Radford assured newsmen that Columnists Stewart and Joseph Alsop, the Cassandras of the defense program, were really too worried about the state of U.S. preparedness, notably the production rate of heavy jet bombers. Then reporters asked Radford about possible successors at the end of his term, 19 months hence. "Do you think General [Alfred M.] Gruenther might succeed you?" inquired one. "He would be a good man," said Radford. "Or maybe we ought to get Joe Alsop in there...
...gram that had set the Middle East fissioning and fusing was the sale of Communist arms to Egypt. Last week this dance of the atoms was going on to the accompaniment of shudders, groans and forebodings from the journalistic moaner's corner, led by those partners in anguish, the Alsop brothers. But despite their outcries, all was not yet lost in the Middle East...