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...Krock Decides...
...ARTHUR KROCK...
James ("Scotty") Reston, the New York Times's diplomatic correspondent, had written out four polite questions in mid-December, had shown them to his Wash ington bureau chief, Pundit Arthur Krock, and then sent them around to the Soviet embassy with a covering letter. Reston had tried this system before with no luck, so he had no qualms about going off to Florida for a Christmas vacation. On Christmas Eve, his office tracked him down in St. Petersburg to relay a message: call the Russian embassy. Reston did, and the Christmas morning Times, in five-column headlines, accompanied...
...most Washington newsmen, the New York Times's Bureau Chief Arthur Krock is the "Mr. Politics" of the U.S. press. But not to Krock himself; he has his own Mr. Politics. Every election night in the Times city room, Krock, 66 and a veteran of a mere 25 years on the Times, turns for guidance to a real oldtimer. "When will you call it, Jim?" asks Krock in his election night ritual. Only when 76-year-old James A. (for Andrew) Hagerty calls it does Krock write his story naming the election winner. "I've always followed...
...York Times Pundit Arthur Krock (on Truman's failure to make public his White House invitation to Eisenhower-see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) : "The third mistake was not to make this announcement immediately after it was omitted...