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...response to telegrams from Managing Editor George S. Abrams asking them to join the undergraduate staff until the strike ends, political experts James "Scotty" Reston, W. H. Lawrence, and Arthur Krock, critic Brooks Atkinson, and sports columnist Arthur Daley all said they preferred to remain unpublished...
...Krock sent Crimson linguists scrounging through foreign dictionaries to translate his wire, but when it was finally deciphered it was found that he too spurned the Crime's offer. "As we used to remind one another in Nassau Hall," Knock wrote. "Ledigheid is honkers moodier en van dieted voile brooder." (Idleness is hunger's mother, and of thieves it is full brother...
...brand-new. A few days before Truman spoke, some newspapermen (notably the New York Times's Arthur Krock) began writing stories reflecting Truman's defense that White was left in his job so that the FBI could watch...
...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...
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...