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Wrote Columnist Stewart Alsop, an Adlai Stevenson devotee, during the 1952 presidential campaign: "This reporter [recently] remarked to a rising young Connecticut Republican that a good many intelligent people, who would be considered normally Republican, obviously admired Stevenson. 'Sure,' was the reply, 'all the eggheads love Stevenson, but how many eggheads do you think there are?' " Months later, Stew Alsop got around to identifying the man who introduced the word egghead to the modern political vocabulary. The "rising young Connecticut Republican" was Insurance Executive John deKoven Alsop, now 42, youngest brother of Columnists Joseph...
...home state of Connecticut, John Alsop carries some impressive credentials. He belongs to an old Avon (Conn.) family, went to exclusive Groton and Yale ('37), served overseas in the cloak-and-dagger OSS in World War II, steadily climbed the promotion ladder in Hartford's Mutual Insurance Co. from field inspector ('46) to president ('53), twice won election to the Connecticut General Assembly (1947 and 1949), and won friends among Eisenhower Republicans as a Connecticut Yankee for Ike in both...
...been especially wary of them since his unhappy interview last month with Syndicated Columnist Joseph Alsop, who quoted him as saying that France's bombing of Sakiet-Sidi-Youssef in Tunisia was a "sad error" (TIME...
Brother Joe, 47, who has been the cam's Paris-based roving reporter for the past year (TIME, July 8), will keep turning out the four-day-a-week Alsop column for the New York Herald Tribune Syndicate, which sells it to 200 U.S. and foreign papers. He plans to write it from Washington five or six months a year and hire an assistant to write at least one capital column a week while he makes short Forays into other world news centers. The column, he cracked, will now "get all of one Alsop instead of halves...
While the brothers have always given half their time to magazine articles, explained Joe, Stewart "increasingly prefers it, and I increasingly loathe it." Added the elder Alsop, who returned to the U.S. last week after writing a penetrating series of columns on Britain's "let's-stop-the-H-bomb" mood: "It's a great wrench. We just had a family reunion, and there were floods of tears, diluted with champagne." To Herald Tribune Publisher Ogden R. ("Brownie") Reid, he wrote: "I feel a little bit as though we were a species of minor Greek chorus, which...