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Columnists Stewart and Joseph Alsop said last week: "Such a bomb would severely blast an area of 140 square miles, and moderately to severely blast an area of 260 square miles . . . The fireball...
Three of the men of '36 have become publishers or editors of big newspapers (William Block of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, William K. Blethen of the Seattle Times, Whitelaw Reid of the New York Herald Tribune). Two are columnists (Stewart Alsop and John Crosby), and one (Richard N. Harris) invented the Toni. "We have a man who is coming to be recognized as the foremost ornithologist of our country [Sidney Dillon Ripley II] . . . We have a famous Fifth Avenue florist [Max Schling Jr.], the entrepreneur of a famous commercial language school [Charles F. Berlitz...
Generators Down. Heavy reinforcements of planes and pilots were being dispatched from the U.S. to beef up Mark Clark's air strength. Although Washington was holding the figures under a security lid, Columnists Joseph and Stewart Alsop estimated that "the planned reinforcement will increase the overall strength by 40%, and the strength in jet planes by an even higher percentage." In Korea, General Van Fleet publicly surmised that more air pressure might force the Reds to sign a truce...
...Columnist Stewart Alsop: "His is the most effective political personality to emerge on the American scene since the death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
After voters rewrote Alsop's rules, and soundly thrashed Harry Truman, red-faced Stewart and brother Joseph joined in their column to give an explanation of sorts: brother Stu had been misled by none other than Kefauver himself. In a not-for-attribution interview, Kefauver had told Alsop that he did not have a chance. "Kefauver," reported the brothers solemnly, "certainly seemed quite honestly convinced that he had no real chance . . . Everybody was wrong-as usual...