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...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...
Flattery & Blame. Krock complains about the "social flattery" which the President directs toward Washington newsmen, but he is forced to confess: "I have myself on occasion been infused with the warmth of good will engendered by this courtship of a suitor of such charm and unique distinction...
...Krock of course knows, Ike blamed many of his troubles on Truman policies, and defended his nonaction in certain foreign situations in the name of peace. Truman, for his part, blamed many of his troubles on poor old Herbert Hoover...