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Washington Columnist Joseph Alsop flew back to his capital beat last week after eleven weeks of legwork in the Middle East. Out of his trip came a notable series of reports on the critical area where Russian diplomacy is stoking the fires of Arab nationalism against the West. As a pundit, 46-year-old Joseph Wright Alsop, who shares his column with brother Stewart, often overdramatizes the dark side into deepest doom. But Alsop's dramatic flair as a reporter in foreign lands seizes surely on color, incident, history and personality to bring a situation crackling to life...
Pleasures & Palaces. In the sheikdoms and kingdoms of the Arab world, in palaces and refugee camps, he updated the Arabian Nights into Alsop's Fables. In the new palace at Jeddah ("the house that Aramco built"), guarded by blackamoors with gilded scimitars, King Saud of Saudi Arabia entertained 400 dinner guests at once, headed by little Imam Ahmed of Yemen, "who waggles his big, richly turbaned head like a teetotum in a sort of passion of politeness." While the guests drank orange pop, "a court bard, descended straight from the poetic line that sang before Agamemnon at Mycenae . . . recites...
...asked Columnist Stewart Alsop this week, as he ticked off Ike's recent political coups, is "the new genius in the White House?" Alsop's answer: "None other than Dwight D. Eisenhower...
Married. Corinne Robinson Alsop, 69, mother of the New York Herald Tribune's globetrotting columnists Joseph and Stewart Alsop, niece of the late President Theodore Roosevelt; and Francis W. Cole, 72, onetime (1945-55) board chairman of Hartford, Conn.'s Travelers Insurance Co.; both for the second time; in Collinsville, Conn...
...House "mixers" and dances throughout the yea, and one or two general outings. This year, for example, on the Friday night before the Princeton game house members retired to a suburban inn for an enjoyable evening of dancing. Special dinners are also often arranged, following which prominent guests, Joseph Alsop being the most recent, speak in the Junior Common Room...