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Shocked at Britain's prewar policies, Kennedy went back to Harvard, wrote a thesis that, at the suggestion of New York Timesman Arthur Krock, was expanded into a highly praised book called Why England Slept. Three years later, on the night of Aug. 2, 1943, Lieut. John Kennedy, U.S.N.R., found himself at the wheel of PT109, patrolling Blackett Strait in the Solomon Islands. Came the cry "Ship at 2 o'clock"-and in the next instant a Japanese destroyer knifed through the PT boat, hurling Skipper Kennedy to the deck and injuring his back. Expert Swimmer Kennedy saved...
...Administration. Said Chicago Daily News Publisher John Knight: "While the Vice President is intensely loyal to the Administration, he is to be commended for talking so forthrightly when so many of the President's advisers are mouthing sheer nonsense.'' Wrote New York Times Columnist Arthur Krock: "It is the first orderly formula that a high officer of the Administration has offered." But even that orderly formula would be meaningless until it was translated into action...
...Arthur Krock, longtime New York...
...Pundit ARTHUR KROCK in the NEW YORK TIMES...
...reporters left the Nixon home impressed with what he had said-and with what he had not said. Speculating on the whole performance, New York Times Pundit Arthur Krock noted: "At this distant point from 1960, across a time span in which coming events are necessarily obscure, the current fact seems to be not only that Nixon is foremost among Republican presidential aspirants but that he is unlikely to make the errors which would displace him from that position." Five days after the inauguration, Dick Nixon announced that the future held something else in store for him: a new home...