Word: alsop
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
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
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...