Word: alsop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sort of social foray to have dinner with Newsweek's Washington deputy bureau chief, Ben Bradlee, whose wife is a close friend of Jackie's. In the early hours of the morning after Inauguration Day, the President dropped by at a private party given by Columnist Joe Alsop, who lives in bachelor splendor in Georgetown among his parakeets and treasured antiques. Fortnight ago, the President went hiking with the Chattanooga Times's Pulitzer Prizewinner Charles Bartlett, whose wife is John Jr.'s godmother. Last week he took off on a spur-of-the-moment trip...
...quote Columnist Alsop: "After years of supineness, therefore, the American Government will now have to spring into sudden, vigorous, often risky action . . ." Brinkmanship, maybe...
...credited him with preserving the peace but complained about the bill: "One might almost say that his was a peace at any price. It was during his eight years that Soviet Russia achieved victory after victory and the U.S. took insult after insult." Columnist Joseph Alsop, who regards optimism as a character flaw, faulted Eisenhower for his complacency: "President Eisenhower, it is plain, is one of those men who prefer to deal with difficult problems and dangerous situations by displaying massive unconcern, meanwhile hoping that time will remove the difficulties and denature the dangers...
During a quarter century of prowling and prophesying in and about Washington, Columnist Joseph Alsop, 50, has remained one of the capital's most conspicuously eligible bachelors. Off the job his interests have centered on architecture (he designed his own Georgetown house), his birds (parrots, finches, parakeets), cooking, good wines, antiques. In his office, problems are more mundane. Suddenly swamped with routine chores when a recent secretary quit and got married, Alsop was heard to grouse: "I never lose people except to marriage-but don't get the idea I disapprove of marriage." Last week, demonstrating his approval...
...West Hartford, Conn., Joe's brother John D. Alsop, 45, president of Mutual Insurance Co. of Hartford, furthered his campaign last week for Connecticut's G.O.P. gubernatorial nomination in 1962. Speaking to Young Republicans, he took the trouble carefully to disassociate himself from Brother Joe's "enthusiasm for the Democratic ticket" and declared: "I am not a prophet of gloom and doom like my brother, Joseph-whose keeper...