Word: alsop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
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 Jan. 1. His partner: his 32-year-old brother Stewart, Yale '36, who before the war was an editor for Doubleday, Doran...
Apparently war, like nature, may sometimes imitate art. While browsing through British Admiralty files for historical background on the self-propelled two-man torpedo, I came across this 1912 cartoon. Alsop's Ale (the hero's fuel) was Britain's favorite brew in 1912-as well known as Bass is today. The resemblance between Cartoonist Quick's conception and the real two-man article of today (TIME, May 1) is uncanny...
JOSEPH W. ALSOP JR. 1st Lieutenant, A.C. c/o Postmaster New York City
...Alsop's Career