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The Making of a Cold War Spy
The life and work of Frank Wisner, one of the CIA’s founding officers, offers us a portrait of American intelligence’s ...
BEVERLY, Mass. — Joseph Wright Alsop VI was 14 years old when he met the future president of the United States. Alsop was the son and nephew of influential newspaper columnists Stewart and ...
As she tells it, his cronies (Bobby Baker, Walter Jenkins, Joe Alsop, Sam Rayburn) maneuvered him into the vice-presidency but his legendary prowess at senatorial politics was a fraud. Mrs ...
Of the Pacific Stars and Stripes columnists, who include Walter Lippmann, Joseph Alsop, Red Smith and Lovelornist Abigail Van Buren, the most widely read by far is Ricketts, a Buddha-shaped (5 ft.
Povich outdraws such punditical heavyweights as Walter Lippmann, Joseph Alsop and Marquis Childs on their home grounds, and he does so against formidable odds. In the virile environment of the ...
Yet in Red China itself, noted Columnist Joseph Alsop, the regime’s paranoid leaders have become so distrustful of the younger generation that they have shipped all members of the three upper ...
The press feud has culminated, noted Columnist Joe Alsop, in an “almost hysterical secretiveness which the Johnson Administration has been carrying to extremes quite unimagined in any previous ...
(When U.S. Columnist Joseph Alsop quoted him as calling the bombing “a sad error,” Pineau at first flatly denied the quote, then admitted, “I may have said a few imprudent words” which ...