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...John Hay Whitney, publisher of the New York Herald Tribune, he went poaching for big game and bagged two handsome specimens: Pundits Walter Lippmann. now under contract, and Joseph Alsop, who will sign up later this year. Adding insult to injury. Graham then suggested that Whitney melt the Trib's 14-man Washington bureau into Graham's huge squad of newsmen. That proved to be a serious mistake...
...Commandments. Walker not only relished his work as a recorder of such legends, but he set out to become a legend himself. He did not so much fill the role of city editor as play it. With favored Trib hands, he spent idle hours playing the match game next door at Bleeck's, which in those days was noted for its good Dutch food and Gemütlichkeit. When his reporters came back to report failure on an assignment, he wordlessly drew from his desk drawer a Sherlock Holmes deerstalker cap, bulldog pipe and magnifying glass, and snooped around...
...departure again set in motion one of the most peripatetic newsmen in the U.S. press. Since 1921, Denson has filled slots on a press wire service, five magazines (including seven years as Newsweek editor), a radio network and five dailies in three cities. At the Trib, his splashy style, unorthodox headlines and capsule summations of the news made the paper sprightlier in appearance...
...Tribune Publisher John Hay Whitney, came still an even more cryptic explanation: "Mr. Lippmann has felt that since he lives in Washington, he would prefer to have administrative matters connected with syndication handled by a Washington paper." And who else lives in Washington? Joe Alsop-whose contract with the Trib expires next year...
...rival: "David is an effective, able all-round banker, who makes keener competition for us because of his ability." With a touch of Latin hyperbole, a Caracas banker enthuses: "Rockefeller is the most important and capable banker in New York, therefore in the world." Painful Burden. Such freely given trib utes to anyone named Rockefeller would have warmed the heart of David's father, John D. Jr. All his life he was bewildered and embarrassed by the Rockefeller wealth. To John D. Jr., his inherited riches brought an immense moral burden, which he tried to relieve by burying him self...