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...Hoover agent," twice tried unsuccessfully to get him fired. Both Jack and Bobby Kennedy submitted the manuscripts of their first books to him for critical comment. To his secretary, Laura Waltz, his ponderous prose is "notoriously bad." To his former colleagues at the New York Times, he is "Mr. Krock." Says Washington Bureau Chief Tom Wicker, "I wouldn't dream of calling him Arthur...
Under Arthur Krock and James Reston, the Times's outpost in the capital grew into an independent fiefdom, often brilliant but sometimes slack and slow compared with less lofty competitors. Complaints along these lines from New York headquarters were brushed aside almost as a matter of principle. In 1964, Reston acquired the pulpit of a full-time pundit, and was replaced as bureau chief by Tom Wicker, a top reporter, occasional columnist and indifferent administrator...
...review of the manual, Humorist Marvin Kitman revealed that he was the author, with an assist from other editors of Monocle magazine. Not that he entirely approves of the practice. "The four most shocking pseudonyms in use today," he confides, "are Walter Lippmann, Art Buchwald, James Reston and Arthur Krock...
...Arthur Krock, LL.D., retired New York Times columnist. A scholarly chronicler of scheming statesmen and listless legislators, a dignified recorder of democratic dreams...
Careless Reporting. For all his complaints, Krock has no intention of retiring from his longtime job of watching the world around him with a critical eye. He turned down all offers to organize farewell parties; he will keep his office in the Times bureau. And there he plans to continue with his two-finger typing. What he will produce, he says, is uncertain. For one thing, he has not made up his mind whether it is proper for him to write his memoirs. Besides, "I'm lazy as hell and have been all my life. I'm mentally...