Word: krock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wars, Presidents and newspapers have come and gone, and the columnists of yesterday still write on, as confidently as ever. Arthur Krock at 79, David Lawrence at 76, Walter Lippmann at 76, and Drew Pearson at 67 remain familiar if greying presences in the nation's press. Roscoe Drummond, 63, James Reston, 56, and Joseph Alsop, 55, have been around so long that they too seem part of the patriarchy. But the roster of challengers is growing fast...
...heretics in their own camp who have had the temerity to say a kind word for Johnson. "The President was clearly the direct source of descriptions of his irritation with a 'too demanding press' by two syndicated columnists," wrote the New York Times's Arthur Krock, acidly referring to Fellow Columnists William S. White and Marquis Childs. Their words, said Krock, "are words with the bark on, affixed with the brand L.B.J." It was an odd complaint from a man who has had many an exclusive Presidential interview in the past...
...bait. He had, he said, thought Sidey's book "critical." As for Lasky's hatchet job, he had only read the first part, but he had seen it praised by the New York Herald Tribune's columnist, Roscoe Drummond, and by New York Times Pundit Arthur Krock. And so, said the President, he was "looking forward to reading it, because the part I read was not as brilliant as I gather the rest of it is, from what they say about...
...week were negotiating with Promoter Meshulam Riklis to take over his sprawling (assets: $66 million) but sorely troubled Rapid-American empire, which controls 1.500 Lerner, H. L. Green, National Shirt, McLellan and other stores; it also makes printing plates and plastic signs and sells citrus fruits. Chucking & Muscling. Muscat, Krock and Huffines got together in 1957 through a mutual interest in rehabilitating a sick New Jersey company called Reinsurance Investment Corp. With the help of their own private fortunes, they then began to build their industrial pyramid, swapping the cash or shares of one company to win control over others...
...Krock places the blame where it belongs. If "managed news'" is succeeding in concealing anything of importance, he says, "the onus rests on the printed and electronic press itself...