Word: alsop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Joseph Wright Alsop Jr., kin to both the Roosevelts, crack peacetime Washington correspondent (with Robert Kintner), was commissioned a first lieutenant in the Army Air Forces, appointed aide to Major General Claire L. Chennault. Since 1941 Alsop had successively: 1) been in the Naval Reserve; 2) resigned from it; 3) been captured as a State Department man by the Japanese; 4) been repatriated; 5) worked with Chennault as a Lend-Lease...
...interesting, although much of it was not particularly new, but what interested journalists was an ethical problem: Why should Davis and Lindley, or anyone else, be favored with such a juicy, exclusive, privately profitable, official handout? Washington writers were still sore over the "American White Paper" by Joseph W. Alsop Jr. and Robert Kintner, an inside Roosevelt-aided story of prewar U.S. diplomacy which had netted its authors...
...Alsop, R. C.; Arragg...
Born. To Actress Martha Scott (Our Town), 25, and Airannouncer Carlton Alsop, 40: a son, Carlton Scott, 7 Ib. 6 oz.; in Hollywood...
...special casualty was President Roosevelt's sixth cousin Joseph W. Alsop Jr., 31-year-old ex-columnist (Alsop & Kintner), who was reported missing at Hong Kong. Not a casualty in the line of journalistic duty, Alsop was working for Chiang Kaishek, as liaison officer with the volunteer U.S. flyers under Colonel Claire Chennault. If the Japanese nabbed him he has even less chance of being exchanged than other correspondent prisoners...