World & Nation
Political columnist Joseph Alsop died today at his home here. He was 78.
Aug. 28, 1989
Joseph Alsop, power-wielding syndicated political columnist for three decades, died Monday in his home in the Georgetown section of Washington, D.C.
Aug. 29, 1989
Books
No one ever called him a “spin doctor,” but newspaper columnist Joseph Alsop was an early and expert practitioner of insider journalism, an authentic American aristocrat whose “tribal” connections allowed him to play a crucial role in not only reporting on but also defining the politics of the Cold War era.
May 10, 1995
Celebrated journalists generally fall into one of two categories.
March 29, 1992
Entertainment & Arts
John Lithgow leads a strong cast in his portrayal of star journalist Joseph Alsop in ‘The Columnist’ on Broadway at the height of the writer’s public influence during the Cold War.
April 25, 2012
In 1957, during one of the harshest periods of the Cold War, Soviet agents secretly photographed one of America’s most well-known journalists engaging in a homosexual act in a Moscow hotel room and tried to blackmail him into becoming a spy.
Nov. 3, 1994
Theater Review: ‘The Columnist’ at Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, New York
California
Alsop, Katherine M., 92, of Burbank, homemaker. Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills.
Nov. 16, 1999
Susan Mary Alsop, the grand dame of Washington society whose Georgetown dinner parties epitomized the nexus of political power and social arrival in the 1960s, died Wednesday of complications from pneumonia at her home.
Aug. 21, 2004
Technology and the Internet
In the past eight years, former IBM and Tandon executive Dan H.
June 27, 1989