Word: krock
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Everywhere he looked, the prospect was far from pleasing. "The unresolved problems of humanity," wrote New York Times Political Columnist Arthur Krock, "are as grave as any that burdened man before." In the U.S. in particular, things were in parlous shape. The Government, Krock complained, was endorsing "an evangelistic concept of world stewardship"; it had "discarded the most fundamental teaching of the foremost American military analysts by assuming the burden of a ground war between Asians in Asia." At home, the Constitution was being eroded by "the swollen powers of the President" and the "judge-made legislation" of the Supreme...
Thus last week, after 39 years on the Times, Arthur Krock, at 78, turned in a kind of personal State of the Union message and announced his retirement. Time was when he planned to stay on the job until he died. Now he felt fatigue. "I don't write as well or as clearly or as concisely as I did," said the man whose influence extended far beyond the Times's circulation. "There has crept in a sense of futility because of the transgressions of politicians." It was, Krock told a fellow reporter, "as good a time...
...cover the Versailles Peace Conference and earned a Legion of Honor with his dispatches. Then, in 1923, he left Louisville for New York and got a job as editorial writer for Frank Cobb's World. In 1927, just when Walter Lippmann took over as editor of the World, Krock moved to the Times as a member of its editorial board...
Five years later, the Times sent Krock back to Washington to run its bureau and begin his column, "In the Nation." There, week after week, he devoted himself to what he calls the real reward of journalism-"perceiving in a news event the hidden factors that are really the important roots of the action." In his search for those hidden factors, he made intensive use of his telephone and his legs. He was always, he said, "more concerned with the reportorial quality of what he wrote than with any punditry." He scorned the official handout, preferring to find...
...Naked Ambition." From that new position, says the courtly Kentuckian who is still Mr. Krock to most Timesmen, many things seem to have changed for the worse. He deplores the powerful unions that have helped to kill some papers, and he dislikes the trend toward specialization among reporters. Not that some of the specialists are not superb, but where is "the old general-assignment man with the cold objectivity in questioning officials?" Today's reporters, says Krock, "frame questions on an argumentative basis instead of primarily to elicit information...