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...Sunny Smile. There are plenty of bright young wheels in the ABC machine. The biggest, Executive V.P. Bob Kintner (who was once half of the Alsop & Kintner column-writing team), is only 37. But the most important item in the plant is "The Oilcan"-easygoing, 47-year-old Mark Woods.* Mark is one of the best-liked men in radio, and one of the shrewdest. A near-genius at negotiation, he is often asked to handle the industry's top-level labor relations. Lapped in Mark's sunny smile, even the wintry Petrillo has been known to thaw...
...better-informed Washington columns before the war was "Capital Parade," put out by Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner. It was so filled with the imminence of the U.S. going to war that its authors finally followed their noses: Alsop joined the Navy, Kintner the Army. Kintner, who became a lieutenant colonel, is now out of the Army and a vice president of American Broadcasting...
Joseph Wright Alsop Jr., kin to both the Roosevelts, crack peacetime Washington correspondent (with Robert Kintner), was commissioned a first lieutenant in the Army Air Forces, appointed aide to Major General Claire L. Chennault. Since 1941 Alsop had successively: 1) been in the Naval Reserve; 2) resigned from it; 3) been captured as a State Department man by the Japanese; 4) been repatriated; 5) worked with Chennault as a Lend-Lease...
...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...
Under Editor MacLeish in OFF were other able men: Columnist (now Captain) Robert Kintner; Historian & Essayist Henry F. Pringle of Harper's and Collier's; former Washington Correspondent Ulric J. Bell, of the Louisville Courier-Journal; New York Times Book Reviewer Charles Poore; Columbia Broadcasting System's Vice President William B. Lewis; TIME'S Allen Grover, Chicago Daily Newsman Edgar Ansel Mowrer...