Stewart Alsop

Education

Born and raised in Avon, Connecticut from an old Yankee family, Alsop attended Groton School and Yale University.

Career

After graduating from Yale in 1936, Alsop moved to New York City, where he worked as an editor for the publishing house of Doubleday, Doran. After the United States entered, Alsop joined the British Army, because his high blood pressure precluded his joining the United States Army. While training in England, Alsop met Patricia Barnard "Tish" Hankey, an Englishwoman, whom he would marry on June 20, 1944.

A month after the wedding, Alsop was allowed to transfer to the United States. Army, and was immediately sent on a mission planned by the Office of Strategic Services.

Foreign the mission, Alsop was parachuted into the Périgord region of France to aid the French Resistance. Alsop worked with and for the Office of Strategic Services for the rest of the war.

Stewart Alsop usually stayed in Washington and covered domestic politics, while Joseph Alsop traveled the world to cover foreign affairs In 1958, the Alsops described themselves as "Republicans by inheritance and registration, and conservatives by political conviction." He published several books, including a "sort of memoir" of his battle with an unusual form of leukemia, Stay of Execution.

At the end of his battle with cancer, he requested that he be given something other than morphine to numb the pain because he was tired of morphine"s sedative effect.

His doctor suggested heroin. In Avon, Connecticut, Stewart has a 53-acre (210,000 m2) public park named after him called Alsop Meadows. Stewart and Patricia "Tish" Alsop (Died November 3, 2012) had six children: Joseph Wright Alsop VI, Ian Alsop, Elizabeth Winthrop Alsop children"s book author, Stewart Alsop II investor and pundit, Richard Nicholas Alsop missionary with Life, and Andrew Alsop.

Achievements

• Alsop was later awarded the Croix de Guerre with Palm for his work on that and other wartime missions.