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This week ABC's President Robert E. Kintner, 44 (who teamed with Pundit Joseph Alsop in writing a prewar Washington column), totted up the results to date, found ABC's television business (in sponsor billings) to be 51% better than a year ago, and its radio business 15% up over 1952. "Star power" did the trick, Kintner says. Early in its new life, the network decided to brighten up its TV by going out for big entertainers. Vice President Robert M. Weitman, a Broadway-wise showman who turned Manhattan's Paramount Theater into a mint by combining...
Soon Wilson was at war on another uncharted battle front, with some of the more prominent members of the press. The trouble began last January, when Columnists Joseph and Stewart Alsop blasted Wilson for his plan to appoint his great friend, CBS Funnyman Arthur Godfrey, as Defense Department representative to the President's Psychological Strategy Board. Wilson finally surrendered to White House pressure and named Kyes instead of Godfrey, but he muttered grimly, in retreat: "No columnist is going to run the Department of Defense." He was livid with anger eleven weeks ago, when Drew Pearson published the full...
JOSEPH AND STEWART ALSOP...
...more than 150 U.S. newspapers last week, Columnists Joseph and Stewart Alsop offered their readers an intimate portrait of Dwight Eisenhower unable to sleep at night as he wrestled with a problem which might end in "the physical and final destruction of this republic." Ike's sleeplessness, according to the Alsops, was caused by worry as to whether his Administration should adopt the recommendations of Project Lincoln, a study of U.S. air defenses carried out at Massachusetts Institute of Technology at the request of the armed services...
...esoteric books pyramided in the window. He became a regular visitor, and soon formed a literary friendship with Gordon C. Cairne, the shop's proprietor. In his autobiography Aiken speaks of his visits to the Grolier as some of the most refreshing moments spent in the Square. Joseph Alsop, New York Herald Tribune columnist, spent his undergraduate hours slouched in the shop's overstuffed sofa. Cairnic remembers him as "one of the fattest Freshmen ever to enter Harvard." T. S. Eliot was surrounded by querying students the first time he entered the shop. He answered a few of their questions...