The Press: Spliffing the Alsops

After twelve years as joint political columnists, Brothers Joseph and Stewart Alsop announced this week that their double-domed partnership will end March 1. Reason for the split: the Saturday Evening Post has offered Stewart Alsop, 43, newly created job that "I cannot refuse." As the Satevepost's contributing editor for national affairs, Stewart will still be based n Washington, but will travel widely on stories in the U.S. and abroad.

Brother Joe, 47, who has been the cam's Paris-based roving reporter for the past year (TIME, July 8), will keep turning out the four-day-a-week Alsop column for the New York Herald Tribune Syndicate,...

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