One of the 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 Co.
Last week the New York Herald Tribune Syndicate, his old boss, announced that Joe Alsop, now 35, of Groton and Harvard, and distant cousin of the late Franklin Roosevelt, would start a new column, beginning...
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