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Notwithstanding his man-of-distinction look, Joe Alsop is a journalist, and a good one. His political acumen (the result of well-applied apprentice years) and his writing (a clear cut above the loose or labored journalese of many colleagues) have earned him a reputation as one of the half-dozen best commentators...
Hollywood could never cast Columnist Joseph Wright Alsop Jr. in its stock role of the slouch-hatted, wisecracking newsman. He does not look the part, and he was not brought up to play it. Instead of the rough-&-tumble school of the police beat, he went to Groton and Harvard, where he wandered around with volumes of Proust and Joyce under his arm and thought politics beneath discussion. His silk shirts and tailored suits are as out of character as his high-pitched "ah there" voice. He exudes a cultivated and imperious...
...Money. Last week the 102nd paper signed up to buy Joseph and Stewart Alsop's column of erudite background, sound and sometimes brilliant opinion, and feedbox gossip. The editors got two pundits for the price of one: while Joe was realistically sizing up Dewey and Stassen in Oregon this month, Stewart was appraising the "twilight terror" in Czechoslovakia...
...Alsop, now a thin-haired 37, became a journalist when his wealthy Connecticut family (kin to the Oyster Bay Roosevelts) decided that its fat and bookish son was good for nothing else. A discreetly pulled wire got him a job with the New York Herald Tribune. In its Washington bureau, where his first official appearance was at a White House party, he found politics more fun than Proust...
...Pays to Reduce. Stewart Alsop, three years younger than his brother Joe, went to Groton and Yale, fought a more exciting war. He began with the British army, wound up with the French Maquis and a British bride. Until he teamed up with Joe, he had never written a news line...