Stewart Johonnot Oliver Alsop was an American newspaper columnist and political analyst.
11 Facts About Stewart Alsop
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Stewart Alsop's parents were Joseph Wright Alsop IV and Corinne Douglas Robinson.
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On June 20,1944, Stewart Alsop married Patricia Barnard "Tish" Hankey, an Englishwoman.
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Stewart Alsop was later awarded the Croix de Guerre with Palm for his work on that and other wartime missions.
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Stewart Alsop worked with and for the OSS for the rest of the war.
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From 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.
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Stewart Alsop usually stayed in Washington and covered domestic politics, and Joseph traveled the world to cover foreign affairs.
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Stewart Alsop published several books, including a "sort of memoir" of his battle with an unusual form of leukemia, Stay of Execution.
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On June 20,1944, Stewart Alsop married Patricia Barnard "Tish" Hankey, whom he met while training in England, where she lived.
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Stewart Alsop is interred at the Indian Hill Cemetery in Middletown, Connecticut.
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In Stewart Alsop's hometown of Avon, Connecticut, there is a 53-acre public park that is named Stewart Alsop Meadows in his honor.