Word: reston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...terms are more widely used or abused than "off the record." Even veteran Washington correspondents, who bump up against the term most often, have trouble agreeing on exactly what it means. Last week James ("Scotty") Reston, New York Times Washington correspondent, gave his definition (in describing Adlai Stevenson's recent request for an off-the-record talk with newsmen): "Everything discussed would not even be talked about outside, let alone printed...
...does "off the record" really mean that?* Reston himself admits that, when he thinks his editors should know it, he often passes along off-the-record information to them on a confidential basis. Most newsmen do the same...
...foreign newsmen, the convention was often so confusing that, as London Observer Correspondent Alistair Buchan half-jokingly said, "I just treat it as a spectacle and then run off and see 'Scotty' Reston of the New York Times.'''' Hearst papers, which had been editorially neutral between Taft and Ike, got overexcited about MacArthur's chances as a "compromise candidate." Publisher William R. Hearst Jr. himself gave credence to "an excellent authority" that Taft was getting ready to put his weight behind MacArthur. Even on the final day of the convention, when most newsmen...
...York Times's James ("Scotty") Reston: "General . . . Eisenhower has demonstrated here that what he does naturally and spontaneously is politically effective ... He was the greatest master of the press conference technique since Franklin D. Roosevelt...
Even though New York Times Pundit Arthur Krock has aimed many a shrewd blow at the New and Fair Deals, both Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman gave him exclusive interviews that resulted in Krock's winning a Pulitzer Prize and a special citation. Last week James ("Scotty") Reston, No. 2 man in the Times's Washington bureau, explained how Bureau Chief Krock manages to do it. Writing in the Times's house organ on Krock's 25th anniversary with the paper, Reston says that Krock's exclusives illustrate "what must hereinafter be known...