Word: wicker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...visit to the embassy was scheduled for 10 a.m. Friday. Long had contacted about 30 newspapers and wire services, asking them to appear at the embassy at 10 or at a press conference at 12:30 p.m. at the National Press Club. He spoke personally to Tom Wicker, the Washington Bureau Chief of the New York Times. Although this was the first statement to the Vietnamese government by Vietnamese students residing here, most of the papers were unresponsive. Wicker informed the New York office to use wire copy. Only one reporter, from Associated Press, went to the embassy...
...Wicker, columnist for the New York Times, will speak on "The Year Ahead" at 8 p.m. tonight in the Lowell House Junior Common Room as a part of the Ford Speakers Program...
...Wicker rushed down from New Hampshire, where he was covering the primary campaigns, to protest the outsider's appointment. Reston rushed up from Washington. Everyone now insists that resignations were never threatened, but the danger of losing Reston, Wicker and White House Correspondent Max Frankel was implicit. Top journalistic talent is hard to find these days, and the loss of such stars was too much to risk. Punch Sulzberger capitulated, agreed to reverse his decision. Greenfield resigned, shook hands all round and walked out of the Times without even bothering to clean out his desk. Behind him he left...
...York national desk began editing or rewriting Washington bureau stories, and two years ago New York tried to replace Wicker with Assistant Managing Editor Harrison Salisbury, only to have National Political Correspondent David Broder resign. Broder accused New York of "a parochialism of outlook," "faulty and sometimes bizarre judgments," "endless bureaucratic frustrations in the New York office." The Salisbury idea was dropped-temporarily. Eight months ago, the paper hired James Greenfield, a former Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs (and onetime TIME correspondent) who had resigned in 1966 as an assistant vice president of Continental Airlines. Greenfield was promised...
...fiefdom, often brilliant but sometimes slack and slow compared with less lofty competitors. Complaints along these lines from New York headquarters were brushed aside almost as a matter of principle. In 1964, Reston acquired the pulpit of a full-time pundit, and was replaced as bureau chief by Tom Wicker, a top reporter, occasional columnist and indifferent administrator...