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...Hearst's chief baby sitter," Pegler went on, is Frank Conniff (Hearst's national news editor), and he characterized the pair as "juvenile delinquents." The immediate reason for Pegler's wrath: "I have received insolent, arrogant warnings that nothing unfavorable to the Kennedy...
Before a breathless CBS-TV audience, Hearst Newspapers National Editor Frank Conniff and his editor in chief totted up the expense-account tariff for their "Task Force" crusades in Europe (TIME, June 30). On the three-man, three-week, 1955 Moscow junket alone, estimated Visiting Firebrand William Randolph Hearst Jr., the tab averaged $1,000 a day. "On the other hand," prompted Fellow Journeyman Conniff, "the caviar was good, and they had a certain liquid there that didn't hurt either...
...Hearst Task Force was only running to form. Born in 1955 on a Hearstian impulse-when Bill decided to visit the Kremlin but did not want to go alone-the team demonstrated from the start a built-in capacity for missing the point. Accompanied to Moscow by Conniff and Hearstling Joseph Kingsbury Smith (now publisher of Hearst's New York Journal-American), Bill Hearst suspiciously searched his rooms for hidden mikes, bucked the usual language difficulties (the waitress brought sheep's eyes when they ordered ice)-and managed to miss a scoop on the biggest story in town...
Accredited, along with some 1,500 newsmen, to cover President Kennedy's recent European visit, the Hearst Task Force was soon blazing its usual exclusive sidetracks all over the map. In Paris the huntsmen-Editor-in-Chief Hearst, National Editor Frank Conniff and Columnist Bob Considine-aimed for President de Gaulle, but missed (he never grants such audiences, not even with a Hearst) and had to settle for Premier Michel Debré. What about France's future? they asked. "One must never construct the distant future with only the date of the present time," answered Debré vaguely...
...will be Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle. The New Frontiersman will run into a very old Frontiersman. He probably knows what he's up against-a man aloof, lonely, enigmatic, humorless, sometimes Machiavellian, sarcastic, self-confident, courageous, irritating, pigheaded, visionary, indispensable and a hard bargainer." Frank Conniff, national editor of Hearst papers, suggested more succinctly that Kennedy might find the old general "teeth-breaking." In the breast of the Times's James Reston lurked the hope that the U.S. President might learn a trick or two in Paris, notably the trick of reserve. Reston quoted...