Word: krock
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...until Teddy took pity on them during a rainstorm (the voluble T.R. would later enjoy bantering with scribes while getting a shave). Many Presidents required the press to submit questions in writing and barred them from printing direct quotations; access was so limited the New York Times's Arthur Krock won a Pulitzer for scoring a sit-down with FDR. Advances in technology have compelled recent leaders to engage with the media more often, albeit reluctantly. Dwight Eisenhower was the first to allow TV cameras into his press conferences; live telecasts, with all their pomp, began with...
They met when Daly was 13 and in Hawaii with his family. Kimmel was there on a high school-graduation vacation. Kimmel became friends with the Dalys and scored Carson his first few radio-deejay jobs. They eventually worked together at L.A.'s alternative-rock station KROCK, which led to Daly's MTV job. For the short time he was at the station, when he was one of the first people to play shock rocker Marilyn Manson, guys actually thought Daly was cool. He says the experience makes being a Tiger Beat pinup more palatable. "I've already been...
...master of manipulation, in both business and public relations. "You would be surprised," he wrote to Jack, "how a book that really makes the grade with high-class people stands you in good stead for years to come." And so in 1940, Joe enlisted his friend Arthur Krock, a columnist for the New York Times, to edit Jack's senior thesis from Harvard into a book--Why England Slept--and shop it to a publisher. Joe quietly bought up more than 30,000 copies of the book, which not coincidentally became a best seller...