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Along with Walter Lippmann and David Lawrence, Krock helped perfect the form of the serious political column. Lippmann offered the perspective of history; Lawrence offered polemics; Krock encompassed both. He usually began his syndicated column "In the Nation" with a recitation of what some political leader had told him and then vented his opinions about it-generally conservative. Though he wrote in a ponderous style, his comments invariably commanded the attention of political leaders. "He had a lot of clout where it counted. He sure as hell wasn't for the subway trade," remembers Fellow Columnist William S. White...
...bookkeeper's son from Glasgow, Ky., Krock attended Princeton briefly, then began his journalistic career on the Louisville Herald and became Washington correspondent for the Louisville Times in 1910. He went to Paris with Woodrow Wilson, won a citation from the French government for his coverage of the Versailles peace conference, and returned to become the editorial manager at age 29 of both the Louisville Times and Courier-Journal. In 1927 he joined the New York Times, and five years later became that newspaper's Washington bureau chief...
...Krock turned the bureau into a fiefdom. He demanded that correspondents develop their own expertise ("You've got to know as much about the subject as the men who make the news") and at the same time defended them against querulous editors in New York. Though he might not agree with one of his reporters' interpretation of a story, he seldom tried to impose his own viewpoint...
...Krock moved aside as the Times's bureau chief. Though he was then 67, he admitted that he had "planned this move for a much later time." But he did it so that James Reston could move into the chiefs job instead of taking one of the several high posts offered to him by competitors. Krock continued writing his column until he retired from the Times in 1966. He turned out three books of memoirs, but even in them, he allowed little of his personal life to intrude...
Died. Arthur Krock, 87, former New York Times Washington correspondent and columnist whose career spanned six decades (see THE PRESS...