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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...began as a somber occasion-the memorial service for Columnist Stewart Alsop, a civilized man who succumbed to leukemia after waging an inspiring fight with his will, his wit and his body (see THE PRESS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: We Go On As a People | 6/10/1974 | See Source »

...long day's journey into night. Stewart Alsop knew that he was soon to die; he bore the knowledge gallantly and wrote about it with unpitying candor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: An Instinct for the Center | 6/10/1974 | See Source »

...Execution, an almost classic deathbed testament that is partly day-by-day diary of the progress and recession of a deadly disease, partly reflections and recollections of the good life he had had and was leaving. Inspired by it, people wrote Alsop from all over the world. Last week Stewart Alsop died, only nine days past the celebration of his 60th birthday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: An Instinct for the Center | 6/10/1974 | See Source »

...newspaper column "Matter of Fact." As scions of an old Republican Connecticut family, the Alsop boys were in a unique position. While more mundane journalists attended press conferences, the Alsops lunched with fellow Grotonian Dean Acheson or shot quail with then Secretary of State Christian Herter. But, unlike Joe, Stewart had no arrogance, either socially or journalistically. Said one friend: "Joe's the kind of guy who can rise from an interview with a famous source and say, 'Sir, you have just wasted 30 minutes of my time.' Stew would never do that. He suffers fools more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: An Instinct for the Center | 6/10/1974 | See Source »

Combative Partnership. There was always an element of gallantry about Stewart Alsop. During World War II the U.S. Army turned him down because of asthma and high blood pressure, but he arranged to join the British army and fought in Italy and Africa. He eventually got transferred to the American OSS and was stationed in England, where he courted his future wife Patricia ("Tish") Hankey. The OSS promptly parachuted him into occupied France to help the Resistance. After the war, he left a job with a New York City publishing house to join Joe in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: An Instinct for the Center | 6/10/1974 | See Source »

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