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...best descriptive reporters in the business, who attacks any Administration's defense policy with shrill alarums and tends to confuse himself with the prophet Jeremiah; Roscoe Drummond, whose liberal Republican tones are so muted as to be ineffective; and the Times's own fusty senior statesman, Arthur Krock, 73, who in his cumbersome way can still analyze a complicated point with more sound sense than most of his colleagues...
Soon, by untiring effort ("He is industrious beyond belief," says Timesman Arthur Krock), Reston became the diplomatic correspondent of the Times and attracted covetous outside attention. When, in 1953, the Washington Post and Times Herald invited him to be its editorial page editor, Reston felt this one was too good to turn down. He told Arthur Krock about it; and Krock, without consulting New York, made Reston the one irresistible counteroffer: Krock's own job, as chief of the Times bureau. Said Krock, then 66, stepping aside: "I knew I was in a position to offer him a strong...
...Scotty. Reston exercises that responsibility in a far different way from Arthur Krock: while Krock held only two staff conferences in the 21 years he headed the bureau, Reston calls the staff together frequently, talks to them in specific terms about their beats, exhorts them to get the story before it is announced. To the staff, the old correspondent was always Mr. Krock; now even the office boy calls the boss Scotty...
...neck are heavily lined. But the spring in his step, the athletic bearing and carriage, all were firm and strong, and the quick laugh and quicker grin marked a personality that had not lost its joy in life. "President Eisenhower," noted the New York Times's Arthur Krock, "entered his seventieth year this week, the first White House incumbent of that age who did not resemble the contemporary concept...
...York Times's Columnist Arthur Krock: Since many of the reasons given by Senators as outweighing [Strauss's] extraordinary achievements were captious, plainly contrived, palpably the result of political or personal pressure or vindictive, it is not inconceivable the American people will produce a much larger majority for Strauss than the Senate produced against...