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...polite nonsense that talk of his Catholicism is bigotry-or that for a Protestant to vote against a Catholic is bigotry. And he served himself best by providing a part-answer to the legend that has been around since Al Smith's defeat in 1928 (see box, next page): that a Catholic cannot be elected President...
...those who stood the gaff, perhaps the most rewarding appraisal came on the editorial page under the byline of a Washington monument: Arthur Krock. With tongue tucked tightly in cheek, Krock made it plain that he, like an old friend and news source named Harry Truman, thinks presidential primaries are so much eyewash...
...seven years away from his prestigious post as the Times's Washington bureau chief, which he voluntarily gave up to make way for Reston. "I didn't retreat," says Krock. "I merely withdrew to a previously prepared position." In that position he turns out his editorial-page column four times a week, and he does it in precisely his own way, drawing on a background of nearly four decades of political reporting and tapping a lode of sources equaled by few in U.S. journalism...
Editor Don R. Mellett of the now defunct Canton, Ohio News was a newsman of the Front Page stripe: a tough and incorruptible crusader, he uncovered an unholy alliance between racketeers and the Canton city government, was gunned down by his enemies in 1926 and became one of U.S. journalism's martyrs. Last week in Norman, Okla., at the thirty-first annual Don R. Mellett Memorial Lecture, Lee Hills, executive editor of the Knight newspaper chain, used' the occasion to measure the gulf between the journalism of Mellett's time and today. Said Hills: "For many years...
...other paper the news would probably have rated Page One. But the Baltimore Sun is not any other paper: it is the Baltimore Sun. Consequently, the word was passed to Sun readers last week in a dignified "Announcement" on the editorial page: "After nine years as president of the A. S. Abell Company and 50 years of association with the Sunpapers, Mr. William F. Schmick Sr. has offered his resignation to the board of directors and asked to be retired. Mr. William...