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Congratulations to TIME in the selection of the Man of the Year, and to deserving Mr. Byrnes for having attained this honorable distinction.
Yes or No? Then he set out to confirm the tip. Nobody at the State Department would. Late in the afternoon, Reston got to Jimmy Byrnes himself by telephone, asked him point-blank if he was going to quit. Said Byrnes, sidestepping: "How many times do I have to deny...
When he hung up, Reston turned dejectedly to Arthur Krock, head of the Times's Washington bureau. "You'd better kill your column," he said. "And I'd better kill my story." Both had been writing on the assumption that Reston was right, that Byrnes was out...
But Reston had put up a better bluff than he knew. When Pundit Krock called Byrnes to try his own luck, the Secretary would not speak to him. ("I just didn't want to lie to him," Byrnes said later.) At that point Jimmy Byrnes called the White House...
On the Times, where some newsmen are inclined to sit back on their big, fat prestige (knowing that their paper is the best place for important people to plant important news), Reston remains an unusual reporter. A cocky, calculating Clydebank boy who came to the U.S. at ten, he went...