Stewart usually stayed in Washington and covered domestic politics, and Joseph traveled the world to cover foreign affairs. Alsop worked with and for the OSS for the rest of the war.įrom 1945 to 1958, Stewart Alsop was co-writer, with his brother Joseph, of the thrice-weekly "Matter of Fact" column for the New York Herald Tribune. Alsop was later awarded the Croix de Guerre with Palm for his work on that and other wartime missions.
For the mission, Alsop was parachuted into the Périgord region of France to aid the French Resistance. On June 20, 1944, Alsop married Patricia Barnard "Tish" Hankey (1926-2012), an Englishwoman.Ī month after the wedding, Alsop was allowed to transfer to the US Army, and he was immediately sent on a mission planned by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). World War II Īfter the United States entered World War II, Alsop joined the British Army because his high blood pressure precluded his joining the US Army. Through his mother, he was a grandnephew of Theodore Roosevelt.Īfter graduating from Yale in 1936, Alsop moved to New York City, where he worked as an editor for the publishing house of Doubleday, Doran. His parents were Joseph Wright Alsop IV (1876–1953) and Corinne Douglas Robinson (1886–1971). Alsop attended Groton School and Yale University. Alsop was born and raised in Avon, Connecticut, from an old Yankee family.
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