Word: elliston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Intelligence Report. In Elliston, Ohio, charged with tampering with mails, Postmaster Reuben R. Stick admitted opening and reading High-School Teacher Emil Slovak's mail for 16 weeks, explained that he was just curious to see how Slovak was getting along...
...announcement that he was stepping aside was all his own doing. Correspondent "Scotty" Reston had come to The Washington Correspondent to let him in on some news. The Washington Post had asked Reston to become its editor, i.e., in charge of the editorial page, to replace ailing Editor Herbert Elliston, who has been advised to quit by his doctors. Krock countered the Post offer with one of his own. Would Reston like Krock's job as bureau chief? When Reston said yes, Krock told Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger, who approved the change. In stepping down as bureau chief, Krock...
British Poet-Critic Stephen Spender, 43, who once described himself as "a middle-aged man in the center of life and rotted by a modicum of success," was appointed to fill the 1953 George Elliston Professorship at the University of Cincinnati. Spender, now lecturing in Brazil, will take the chair in February...
...months ago, Elliston began to hear disturbing things: Acheson was saying privately that maybe the U.S. should toughen its policy toward the Chinese Communists, and responsible Democrats on Capitol Hill were saying that nothing could be done with Administration foreign policy while Acheson stayed in office. Last week, when Elliston heard that Acheson had not raised his voice against sending a 600-man military mission to Chiang on Formosa (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), he decided the time had come. In a churning editorial the Post called for Dean Acheson's resignation...
...Secretary of State, editorialized the Post, is "more parallel than antithetical to MacArthur" and "much less candid and forthright." Then Editor Elliston told his readers some things he had managed to conceal from them for a long time...