Word: alsop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hollywood could never cast Columnist Joseph Wright Alsop Jr. in its stock role of the slouch-hatted, wisecracking newsman. He does not look the part, and he was not brought up to play it. Instead of the rough-&-tumble school of the police beat, he went to Groton and Harvard, where he wandered around with volumes of Proust and Joyce under his arm and thought politics beneath discussion. His silk shirts and tailored suits are as out of character as his high-pitched "ah there" voice. He exudes a cultivated and imperious...
Reported the Christian Science Monitor's Roscoe Drummond: "[He] is a different, improved and more effective campaigner than . . . Washington correspondents have seen in action before." Wrote Columnist Joseph Alsop: "It is reassuring to be able to report that this harddriving, remarkably competent but sometimes rather inhuman governor is still growing as a man and a leader...
...Professor spoke of Alsop's report on Prague, which he claims was written after a week-end stop-over in the country, claiming that report of biased. But now that two methods of observation have been put to the test, we can check the scores. A. Y. Davis...
...Stone, Washington correspondent for PM and "sometime columnist" for The Nation and Joseph W. Alsop '32, New York Herald Tribune writer, last night converged on the Marshall Plan from two different angles, roughed it around, and finally designated it as the only possible solution for world tension...
...crux of Alsop's proposition for world peace was power politics. "We have power, economic and technological strength more gigantic than our eastern adversary," he claimed, and advocated hog-tying Russia's expansion policy by securing the friendship and economic control of her neighbors by means of the Marshall Plan...