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...those who stood the gaff, perhaps the most rewarding appraisal came on the editorial page under the byline of a Washington monument: Arthur Krock. With tongue tucked tightly in cheek, Krock made it plain that he, like an old friend and news source named Harry Truman, thinks presidential primaries are so much eyewash...
Close to the News. At 72, Arthur Krock is seven years away from his prestigious post as the Times's Washington bureau chief, which he voluntarily gave up to make way for Reston. "I didn't retreat," says Krock. "I merely withdrew to a previously prepared position." In that position he turns out his editorial-page column four times a week, and he does it in precisely his own way, drawing on a background of nearly four decades of political reporting and tapping a lode of sources equaled by few in U.S. journalism...
...still have a good telephone and a couple of legs," says Krock-and he uses them for every column. He intensely dislikes being called a pundit: "I am more concerned with the reportorial quality of what I write than with any other aspect. The reporter is the sine qua non of a newspaper. If the reporters are good, the newspaper is good...
Arising each day at 8:30, Krock reads the Washington Post and Times Herald, the New York Herald Tribune, then the Times. At about 11:30 he leaves his Northwest Washington home for the Times office at 1701 K Street N.W. There he reads his mail, follows up on ideas generated by conversations or by his reading, goes to lunch, returns to the office at about 3 o'clock. "I never make up my mind what I'll write about until then " says Krock. "I try to keep close to the news so my piece will...
Reston has no compelling outside interests-except those that affect his work. "Mr. Reston," says Mr. Krock, "is not exactly what you would call a cultivated man." Reston says he has not read a novel in 20 years-but he has read practically every nonfiction work that he thought would be valuable in improving the way he does his job. This self-education has helped make Reston a reporter who can write well on almost any subject from the public appeal of Elvis Presley to the pitfalls of relating contemporary America to the decline of Rome. Says Managing Editor Catledge...