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William R. Hearst Jr., editor in chief of the Hearstpapers, likes to introduce National Editor Frank R. Conniff as "the house Democrat." This at once pays affectionate tribute to the staunch Republicanism of the Hearstpapers, to Conniff's equally unsubornable allegiance to the other party, and to the indulgence of Bill Hearst himself. Last week Democrat Conniff, 49, reached for a House more sizable than Hearst's. He accepted the Democratic nomination as candidate for Congress from a suburban Westchester district...
...their own, have relied a good deal on what they have read in the public prints. One White House adviser says that, for him, the Times's Halberstam is a more trust worthy source of battle information than all the official cables available in Washington. Hearst Editor Frank Conniff wrote that the New York Times's reporting on Viet Nam had misled the President; it was, he said, "a political time bomb," just as the Times's coverage of the Castro revolution in Cuba represented the Times's "loaded present to President Eisenhower...
Other papers sent reporters with fresh eyes. The Wall Street Journal dispatched Igor Oganesoff and Norm Sklarewitz; John Cowles's Minneapolis Tribune sent Robert Hewett. Conniff and the rest of the Hearst task force set out for the Far East. So did Columnist Joe Alsop, a talented reporter and longtime Asian expert. Alsop characterized the Saigon correspondents as "young crusaders." He wasted no time reminding his readers that "it is easy enough to paint a dark, indignant picture without departing from the facts, if you ignore the majority of Americans who admire the Vietnamese as fighters and seek...
...general-assignments reporter in Hearst's Washington bureau, showed up on Kennedy's campaign. Sheer luck had put her there-everybody else in the bureau was sick at the time-but Kennedy remembered her. After the election, he had a talk with Hearst National Editor Frank Conniff. "Are you going to send Marianne to the White House?" asked Kennedy. Conniff, who had not intended to send anyone, lost no time in complying...
Administration will be allowed out of New York where the censors sit." The Crusaders chortled heartily; Hearst & Co. did not. Last week, after 18 years with the Hearst chain, Pegler, 68, left. "The maximum tolerance is made in this organization for prima donnas," said Conniff, "but this has become personal...