Word: punditing
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...Washington party, the New York Times's Pundit Arthur Krock got a tongue-in-cheek proposition from his good friends, Columnists Joseph & Stewart Alsop. Why shouldn't they team up in a "bloody triangle of journalism," each turn out one column a week? That way, they could get away with less work. Next day Timesman Krock sat down at his typewriter and, showing an unsuspected gift for satire, knocked out a column, sent it off to the Alsops. Stewart Alsop thought so much of it that last week he had it framed and hung on the wall...
...determined opposition, led by onetime cabinet Minister Thakin Ba Sein did what it could to muster votes. But it seemed certain that Premier Thakin Nu and his candidates would win. Said one local pundit: "The government has many defects and some fellows in it are darned mischievous, but what about opposition? Their history sheets don't give good accounts of them, so we will choose the lesser evil...
...attitude was out of line, Pundit Baxter did not "have to resign from [his] club" as he feared. But last week the Oxford undergraduate newspaper Comment undertook to set him straight. "There is only one reason why we have a sporting willingness to lose, and that is because we are in no doubt of our own ultimate superiority . . . That Cambridge should bother to win the Boat Race with such monotonous, and it must be said, ill-bred regularity, is a sign of a sense of despair. No loyal Oxford man can be anything but proud of the crew which sank...
...Never a Pundit. Swayze is also getting some belated recognition from the two mediums in which he worked for 20 years. Early this year, McNaught Syndicate hired Swayze to do a column called "New York," now appearing in 50 newspapers-a sentimental and often arch performance which reminds some readers of the folksy prose of the late O. O. Mclntyre. And last week, Swayze signed with Sponsor Raytheon (TV sets) for a 15-minute radio news program starkly entitled John Cameron Swayze...
...pundit, Swayze leaves big political thinking out of all his shows, likes to concentrate on human interest stories. Says Swayze: "Leaving people feeling good-that's my role...