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...Times's London bureau hired him, and three years later Publisher Sulzberger brought Reston to Manhattan as his assistant. In 1944, Reston was transferred to the Washington bureau, where he has been ever since. Reston, a popular choice among Timesmen to head the Washington bureau, got off to a good start. He told the staff: "Any talk from me is unnecessary. It's probably a good thing, because if I had to express my feelings about this announcement to my old colleagues, many of whom have taught me the news business, I'm afraid...
Though Reporter Hagerty is well beyond the age when Timesmen can retire (65), he has no intention of retiring and the Times has no intention of suggesting it. Says the official monthly Times house organ: "He is our own private court of appeals on all questions from newspaper ethics to identification of obscure passages from Gilbert and Sullivan...
...spared no expense to get the news. He spread Timesmen all over the Civil War fields. He paid Correspondent Ben C. Truman* an unheard-of $100 weekly; Truman sped to the Times the news of a Union victory at Franklin, Tenn. four days before the War Department got it. (But the Times was scooped on the fall of Vicksburg because its dispatch bearer got drunk along the way.) So timely were Times reports that General McClellan accused Raymond of aiding the enemy. The little general demanded that the paper be suppressed because it printed a detailed map of the defenses...
Twenty-five minutes later, after the treasure had been found on Snell Isle, Timesmen began to tot up the results of their promotion stunt: six people were injured in auto accidents; several women fainted in the mob scene at the Times building; one woman, pacing off the clue in the dark, walked out into Boca Ciega Bay and had to be pulled out; four people had to be dragged out of waist-deep mud; the crowd ripped up stakes on a building site, which will now have to be resurveyed. But the Times seemed to think it was all worth...
...personal contacts and his staffers' legs. As Washington's No. 1 correspondent, Krock's advice is often sought by Washington brass-from the President down. He has won two Pulitzer Prizes and two exclusive presidential interviews (Franklin Roosevelt in 1937, Harry Truman in 1950). Like all Timesmen, Krock has an advantage over most of his competitors, in that the Times is the most-favored paper for Government handouts, leaks and policy "trial balloons...