Word: krock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Martha Blair's copy for next day was already written. Meanwhile, volatile Cissie Patterson had suffered a change of heart: the column stood. But Martha Blair (who is also the wife of the New York Times's Arthur Krock) had had enough of Cissie's whims...
Martha called up Eugene Meyer (no friend of Cissie Patterson), who owns the Washington Post. Gleefully the Post printed on its own society page: "Mrs. Charlotte B. Nast, Ian Wilson-Young to wed - Mrs. Arthur Krock receives word of betrothal in London...
...charming Mrs. Krock and the intense Mrs. Patterson had met socially several times last week since they parted professionally. There were no eruptions. Some of her friends thought they heard Mrs. Krock say one evening: "Well, thank God, I've still got Arthur Krock...
...York Times pays Pundit Krock over $25,000 a year, so Martha Blair can get along without her job. The Times-Herald supports so many female reporters, columnists, critics that Washington newsmen call it "Cissie Patterson's henhouse." Cissie has a weakness for firing her columnists in a fit of temper, then hiring them back at a bigger salary. By week's end, knowing her own failing, Mrs. Patterson had fled to Nassau...
...turned down several lucrative offers. The Associated trusteeship tempted him because it combined business with a chance to do a job in the public interest. But no sooner was his name proposed than lightning began to play around his head. It started when New York Times Columnist Arthur Krock wrote a column which he thought would give his friend Hanes a good sendoff. Wrote Krock: ". . . Holders of these [Associated] assets and liabilities, in a series of informal meetings, decided that their choice for trustee was Mr. Hanes." Came the storm. Senator Norris, a power-trust-blaster from way back, blasted...