Word: krock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...those who stood the gaff, perhaps the most rewarding appraisal came on the editorial page under the byline of a Washington monument: Arthur Krock. With tongue tucked tightly in cheek, Krock made it plain that he, like an old friend and news source named Harry Truman, thinks presidential primaries are so much eyewash...
...best descriptive reporters in the business, who attacks any Administration's defense policy with shrill alarums and tends to confuse himself with the prophet Jeremiah; Roscoe Drummond, whose liberal Republican tones are so muted as to be ineffective; and the Times's own fusty senior statesman, Arthur Krock, 73, who in his cumbersome way can still analyze a complicated point with more sound sense than most of his colleagues...
Soon, by untiring effort ("He is industrious beyond belief," says Timesman Arthur Krock), Reston became the diplomatic correspondent of the Times and attracted covetous outside attention. When, in 1953, the Washington Post and Times Herald invited him to be its editorial page editor, Reston felt this one was too good to turn down. He told Arthur Krock about it; and Krock, without consulting New York, made Reston the one irresistible counteroffer: Krock's own job, as chief of the Times bureau. Said Krock, then 66, stepping aside: "I knew I was in a position to offer him a strong...
...Scotty. Reston exercises that responsibility in a far different way from Arthur Krock: while Krock held only two staff conferences in the 21 years he headed the bureau, Reston calls the staff together frequently, talks to them in specific terms about their beats, exhorts them to get the story before it is announced. To the staff, the old correspondent was always Mr. Krock; now even the office boy calls the boss Scotty...
Reston has no compelling outside interests-except those that affect his work. "Mr. Reston," says Mr. Krock, "is not exactly what you would call a cultivated man." Reston says he has not read a novel in 20 years-but he has read practically every nonfiction work that he thought would be valuable in improving the way he does his job. This self-education has helped make Reston a reporter who can write well on almost any subject from the public appeal of Elvis Presley to the pitfalls of relating contemporary America to the decline of Rome. Says Managing Editor Catledge...