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Writing with the authority of long service as a foreign correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune and The New Yorker magazine, Christopher Rand made no secret of his disapproval of the performance of his colleagues. While watching the overseas press corps cover a war in Asia, Rand became convinced that "the crusading or bellicose tradition of U.S. journalism goes badly with foreign reporting." On their foreign beat, he wrote, the crusaders seemed "more eager to put on an act than to right wrongs. Or perhaps they had fallen into mere hostility for its own sake. It seemed...
Vietnam? Santo Domingo? No, Rand was writing about reporters in Korea, and about the press corps that had covered the earlier Communist takeover in China. Originally published in a 1954 issue of Nieman Reports, the magazine put out by Nieman Fellows at Harvard, Rand's comments have been reprinted in Reporting the News (Belknap; $6.50), an anthology of such essays selected by former Nieman Curator Louis Lyons. Spanning almost 20 years, most of the articles now seem dated. Rand's modest faultfinding is as contemporary as the latest dateline...
...role," wrote Rand, "a foreign correspondent is a commentator or analyst, not a crusader." What he needs is judgment, and historical perspective−attributes that are all too often lacking, fn China, Rand recalls, even the ablest of the reporters seemed to spend just about all his time exposing corruption in he Nationalist government. While "you needed to know that various officials were grafting, and you needed to say so at the right times, you didn't have o make a sensation of it as it was only a detail in the chaos of the times...
During the debate on his amendment, Dirksen orated before a packed and entranced gallery. He warned that the time could come "when the only people interested in state boundaries will be Rand McNally." He cried out that the Prohibition Amendment had disastrously deprived states of freedom to make their own laws and that "in 1932 my party was overwhelmingly voted out of office, and not the least of the issues were bread and booze." He insisted that "the whole burden of my argument has been: go back to the people." He intimated that the Supreme Court had taken on powers...
Died. William Rand Kenan Jr., 93, Florida industrialist, who, as a chemistry student in 1892, stumbled upon a "dark crystalline mass" that later became the keystone of the billion dollar carbide industry, in 1900 turned to Florida hotel and rail development with his brother-in-law, Entrepreneur Henry Flagler, accumulating a personal fortune of $100 million; of a stroke; in Lockport...