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Outside Chance. The New York Daily News's Columnist John O'Donnell, a Taftman, looked down his nose at Eisenhower's campaign, quoted an unidentified Ike informant: "This New Hampshire play for Eisenhower has turned out sour and that we'll admit." James ("Scotty") Reston of the New York ("We Like Ike") Times was impressed by Taft's "aggressive campaign." He found it more effective than the politicking in behalf of the absent Eisenhower. Wrote Reston: ". . . What does Taft have that Ike doesn't have? The answer seems to be: 'Nothing...
James ("Scotty") Reston, 41, the Times's "diplomatic correspondent," and a 1944 Pulitzer Prizewinner (national reporting), has come to be rated tops in his field by combining first-rate State Department and embassy sources with graceless but clear writing...
Paul Ward, 46, of the Baltimore Sun, has sources and knowledge of international affairs equal to Timesman Reston's, but his woolly writing is a cut below. Ward has pretty much a free hand on what he wants to cover, won a Pulitzer Prize for his postwar series on Russia...
...James B. Reston, New York Times correspondent in Washington, D.C. Litt.D...
...abroad." To Maggie Higgins went the George Polk Memorial Award (plus $500 provided by CBS) for "courage, integrity and enterprise above and beyond the call of duty." Other awards: ¶General war reporting, A.P.'s Hal Boyle. ¶Foreign-news interpretation, the New York Times's James Reston. ¶Radio & TV interpretation, CBS's Ed Murrow. ¶Radio & TV reporting from abroad, CBS's Howard K. Smith. ¶Picture reporting, LIFE'S David Douglas Duncan...