Word: krocked
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...press reception, apparently thought he could accomplish that by leaking the story to five of his closest friends in the Washington press. He asked them to his home barely five hours after he had thrown other newsmen off his trail. The five: the New York Times's Arthur Krock, Scripps-Howard's Charles Lucey, Kansas City Star's Duke Shoop, Knight Newspapers' Paul Leach, and the New York Herald Tribune's new Washington bureau chief, Roscoe Drummond. "Gentlemen," said Brownell as he walked into his living room, "you have been good...
...York Times, there is a vast difference between a Washington correspondent and "The Washington Correspondent." For the last 21 years, The Washington Correspondent has been Pundit Arthur Krock, 66, whose title also makes him chief of the 24-man Times Washington bureau. Last week Chief Krock called the first full staff meeting since he took over the job. Solemnly, he explained that "to avoid misunderstanding," he wanted to read an important announcement: "On my own motion, Mr. James Reston will become The Washington Correspondent of the New York Times, with complete charge of the staff .. . Mr. Reston has received several...
Washington newsmen were surprised by nothing but the frankness and timing of Krock's announcement, since Diplomatic Correspondent Reston, 43, has long been the star of the Times bureau and heir apparent to the throne. A Pulitzer Prizewinner (for his reporting of the Dumbarton Oaks conference), Reston has worked top sources and a sharp, journalistic mind to give him a long series of exclusive stories. His basic formula for covering Washington: "Read the newspapers and then raise in your own mind the unanswered questions. You can anticipate what a government will do, and, on the basis of that...
...NEARLY 30 YEARS HAS COVERED CAMPAIGNS ACROSS THE COUNTRY WITH THE TIMES'S HAGERTY, I CAN TESTIFY THE KROCK LETTER HITS A NEW HIGH IN ABSURDITY...
...NEEDS NO DEFENSE FROM ME BUT I WRITE TO SUGGEST A LADDER BE PLACED ALONGSIDE MR. KROCK'S IVORY TOWER IN THE HOPE