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When Reston returned to Washington in 1944, bureau chief Arthur Krock assigned him to the diplomatic beat. He made his reputation almost immediately, and in spectacular fashion...
...General George Marshall wouldn't be a good man to fill it. So, when the AP ticker reported that Marshall had been called home from Nanking, Reston guessed that Brynes was quitting, and hinted as much in his stories. He also called Brynes and asked him. Byrnes hedged. Then Krock called. Byrnes wouldn't speak to him. Instead Brynes called the White House to say the Times was on to the story. Truman released it immediately, a few days ahead of schedule...
Debating the Debate. This pattern of dissent by a Times columnist is not necessarily unique. Arthur Krock differs from the paper's policy on some issues, notably economics; Hanson Baldwin tends to differ on military policy. However, it is Sulzberger's independent line on Viet Nam that has become more and more conspicuous in recent months...
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...