JOSEPH W. ALSOP, 78; WAS AUTHOR, SYNDICATED WASHINGTON COLUMNIST

The Boston Globe | August 29, 1989| | Copyright

Joseph W. Alsop of Washington, widely-read newspaper columnist and author, died yesterday at his home after a long illness. He was 78.

Mr. Alsop was the dean of nationally syndicated political columnists when he wrote his last column and retired in 1974. He had been writing his combative columns for 37 years and was considered a master of the English language as well as of the Washington power puzzle.

Mr. Alsop had a reputation for skewering people with his columns. But before retirement, in an interview in The New York Times with Clifton Daniel, the columnist said he could think of ...

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