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When he hung up, Reston turned dejectedly to Arthur Krock, head of the Times's Washington bureau. "You'd better kill your column," he said. "And I'd better kill my story." Both had been writing on the assumption that Reston was right, that Byrnes was out, and Marshall...
...Reston had put up a better bluff than he knew. When Pundit Krock called Byrnes to try his own luck, the Secretary would not speak to him. ("I just didn't want to lie to him," Byrnes said later.) At that point Jimmy Byrnes called the White House, told the President that, since the Times evidently had the story (and a few others were getting warm, too), it might as well be released. Less than an hour later the story...
...Vogue's readers, Martha Krock, onetime society reporter, now the wife of New York Times Columnist Arthur Krock, divulged the distilled wisdom of a veteran Washington hostess. The advice: "Don't give cocktail parties . . . . Of all things dedicated to spoil the evening to come, the cocktail party ranks first." But if you must, "don't serve those awful little monsters known as canapées," and avoid mobs...
...Most recent muff: by the New York Times's erudite Arthur Krock, who last week had it "if elected I will not qualify...
...weekly press grilling, with the excuse that he had nothing special to announce. Newspaper editorials pointed out that omission might also be a sin. When the President failed to meet returning Secretary of State Jimmy Byrnes at the capital airport, Washington buzzed furiously once again. Scolded N.Y. Timesman Arthur Krock: "Mr. Truman and his staff should have realized ... that his absence . . . would set up a whispering gallery." But even the hard-hearted Krock was moved to concede grudgingly that "the President is a prisoner of his office . . . there is in him no touch of malicious subtlety...