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Many have turned to reading out of town papers. The Washington Post, which runs garish color pictures on the front page and Walter Lippmann and Herblock inside, as a fine paper, and can be bought daily in the Square. Just to balance Lippmann and Herblock, the Post also Roscoe Drummond, a garrulous fellow somewhere to the right of the late Sen. Henry Dworshak...
...table sat President and Mrs. Kennedy, most of the President's brothers and sisters, France's Minister of Culture André Malraux, Vice President Lyndon Johnson and Lady Bird, the entire U.S. Cabinet, the Ed Murrows, the McGeorge Bundys, the Averell Harrimans, Columnists Joe Alsop and Walter Lippmann, and the National Gallery's Director John Walker...
...with the second biggest news bureau in Washington (after the New York Times) and an impressive spread of foreign correspondents. On the private preserve of John Hay Whitney, publisher of the New York Herald Tribune, he went poaching for big game and bagged two handsome specimens: Pundits Walter Lippmann. now under contract, and Joseph Alsop, who will sign up later this year. Adding insult to injury. Graham then suggested that Whitney melt the Trib's 14-man Washington bureau into Graham's huge squad of newsmen. That proved to be a serious mistake...
When Washington Post Publisher Philip Graham, 47, stole Columnist Walter Lippmann from the New York Herald Tribune syndicate last month, Graham hinted broadly that more raids might follow. His newest columnar prize is Joe Alsop, another old hand of the Tribune syndicate, whose byline will join Lippmann's in Graham's kit bag. Any more columnists to come? "Well." said Graham. "I could have had another big one, but I didn't want to seem greedy...
...Lippmann denied any ideological intent in changing bosses. "I like the contract better than the one I had," said he, in a characteristically oblique reference to the fact that he will obviously get more money. From the columnist's previous employer, Herald Tribune Publisher John Hay Whitney, came still an even more cryptic explanation: "Mr. Lippmann has felt that since he lives in Washington, he would prefer to have administrative matters connected with syndication handled by a Washington paper." And who else lives in Washington? Joe Alsop-whose contract with the Trib expires next year...