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London reports that during an interview England's Queen Elizabeth set one of our correspondents back on his heels with a detailed discussion of TIME'S style and content. Another correspondent, who had been seeing Winston Churchill about the third volume of his Second World War, now appearing serially in LIFE and the New York Times, said that Churchill reports that he runs through TIME immediately on receiving it. Correspondent Cranston Jones passed along the following complaint from his doctor: "So many of my patients read the Medicine section of TIME that I have to read the blasted...
Krock's orotund prose, the exclusive interview with President Truman appeared in the New York Times (see PRESS...
When President Franklin D. Roosevelt broke an unwritten White House rule and gave New York Timesman Arthur Krock an exclusive interview in 1937, the Washington press corps sizzled with rage at such "favoritism." F.D.R. promptly apologized (his head was "on the block," he said), and most of the newsmen forgave him. Last week Timesman Krock, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his first White House beat,*set White House regulars sizzling again with another exclusive presidential interview (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). But Harry Truman had no apologies. At his weekly press conference the next day, correspondents in the first row, close...
...back in a characteristic little mannerism, which both announces that he is ready for a fresh question and helps his astigmatic eyes spot the next questioner through his glasses. He spotted a fellow Missourian, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's able Raymond Brandt. Brandt asked whether the Krock interview had been authorized in that form. It had been, said the President...
...welfare state. Before the briefing began, all 61 sat down to answer a list of 25 questions-"an audit of mid-century America." For the next three days they shuttled busily back & forth from the State Department to a conference with Labor Mediator Cyrus Ching, to Capitol Hill to interview members of the Congress, to a friendly visit with Missouri Baptist Harry Truman. Afterwards ten of the visitors sat down and answered the same questions all over again on an electrical voting gadget. Some before-&-after results...