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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...
...Robert L. Huffines Jr., 61, resigned as chairman of Defiance Industries and president of B.S.F., a $22.5 million minor empire ranging from banking to automobile tape players, which he had shared with Partners Victor Muscat and Edward Krock. Huffines gave "personal reasons" for breaking up the threesome, who were called the Three Muscateers, sold off the bulk of his holdings to his partners, with whom he had dealt mostly by telephone since the triumvirate was formed eight years ago. He will now operate on his own from his 13,000-acre plantation at Yemassee...
...Reston was offered the job of Editor of the Washington Post, which would have put him in charge of the Post's editorial page. He told Krock about the offer, and in order to keep Reston with the Times, Krock stepped down as bureau chief and gave Reston...