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...York Herald Tribune. Arnold was representing a group of State Department employees who had been fired-on unspecified charges-in the Government's loyalty investigation. Arnold thought that an important question of civil rights was at stake. Said Mrs. Reid: "Why not get in touch with Bert Andrews...
...Guildsman and no crusader, leathery Bert Andrews, 46, had stubbornly stuck to his reporter's last through seven years as the Trib's top capital hand. A Washington assignment offers subtle temptations: if a reporter is not careful he may turn into a pundit, or a cocktail-swigging socialite, or become a power behind some politician's throne. Such lures have left Andrews cold. In Albany and way points (Sacramento, Chicago, the Paris Herald, and Manhattan), he learned to keep his nose for news clean, and his news sources at arm's length...
Andrews likes to hold off-the-record gatherings of opposition bureau chiefs in his apartment on fashionable Crescent Place. There many a Washington bigwig has sat down, drink in hand, to face a quizzing. Says persistent Bert Andrews, who would rather share many facts than miss a few: "Ten guys asking questions are better than one-you all learn more...
Rough and frequent outbursts of temper, a goal apiece for Eliot's Fred Ecker. Bert Van Ingen, and George O'Neill, and a crowded penalty box marked the fracas. As for the hockey prowess displayed, it was dubbed "not particularly brilliant" by unanimous consent of both teams...
...Harry Truman is a stubborn man. At his press conference, the Herald Tribune's Bert Andrews asked if the President were going ahead with the balcony. He was, the President declared-the Herald Tribune to the contrary notwithstanding. The same opposition had been made, he added, when bathtubs, gaslights and cooking stoves were put in the White House...