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...interesting, although much of it was not particularly new, but what interested journalists was an ethical problem: Why should Davis and Lindley, or anyone else, be favored with such a juicy, exclusive, privately profitable, official handout? Washington writers were still sore over the "American White Paper" by Joseph W. Alsop Jr. and Robert Kintner, an inside Roosevelt-aided story of prewar U.S. diplomacy which had netted its authors...
...Alsop, R. C.; Arragg...
Born. To Actress Martha Scott (Our Town), 25, and Airannouncer Carlton Alsop, 40: a son, Carlton Scott, 7 Ib. 6 oz.; in Hollywood...
...special casualty was President Roosevelt's sixth cousin Joseph W. Alsop Jr., 31-year-old ex-columnist (Alsop & Kintner), who was reported missing at Hong Kong. Not a casualty in the line of journalistic duty, Alsop was working for Chiang Kaishek, as liaison officer with the volunteer U.S. flyers under Colonel Claire Chennault. If the Japanese nabbed him he has even less chance of being exchanged than other correspondent prisoners...
...chief of OFF, Franklin Roosevelt picked his friend Poet Archibald MacLeish,* Librarian of Congress, who occasionally helps draft a White House speech. To help him ferret out his facts & figures, Director MacLeish will have blond, chub-cheeked Captain Robert Kintner, who gave up a lucrative Washington column (with Joseph Alsop, just resigned from the Navy) to take an Army commission, and rich, personable Lieut. Barry Bingham (son of the late Ambassador to Britain Robert Worth Bingham), who gave up his job as publisher of the Louisville Courier-Journal for a commission in the Navy...