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...Scotty. Reston exercises that responsibility in a far different way from Arthur Krock: while Krock held only two staff conferences in the 21 years he headed the bureau, Reston calls the staff together frequently, talks to them in specific terms about their beats, exhorts them to get the story before it is announced. To the staff, the old correspondent was always Mr. Krock; now even the office boy calls the boss Scotty...
...Reston has no compelling outside interests-except those that affect his work. "Mr. Reston," says Mr. Krock, "is not exactly what you would call a cultivated man." Reston says he has not read a novel in 20 years-but he has read practically every nonfiction work that he thought would be valuable in improving the way he does his job. This self-education has helped make Reston a reporter who can write well on almost any subject from the public appeal of Elvis Presley to the pitfalls of relating contemporary America to the decline of Rome. Says Managing Editor Catledge...
Like many newspapermen whose working hours are controlled more by deadlines than by their own wishes, Reston feels that he does not have enough time for his family. But the family is the one interest that can get him away from the job. The Times's Washington correspondent is also an unsalaried contributor to Reston's Weekly, a journal issued sporadically from 3124 Woodley Road, N.W., and sent to friends and relatives. The younger two of Reston's three sons-Richard, 22, who was graduated last month from the University of Wisconsin, Jim, 18, a freshman...
...Great Phone Man. Working for his other bosses at the Times keeps Reston busy 12 to 15 hours a day. He is usually up around 6 to collect the four papers on the front steps, the Times, the New York Herald Tribune, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal. These he reads with deep concentration, over a pot of coffee, making notes. At 8 he listens to the news broadcast on the radio, and just before 9 Sally drives him to work...
...Interpretation. Approaching the job of getting and interpreting the news with his Calvinistic gravity of purpose, Reston works as if the very life of the republic rested on his ability, and the ability of his fraternity, to alert the people on the issues of the day. He worries that the people are not listening as carefully as they should to interpretive reporters like Scotty Reston. "There is more good, hard, tough reporting coming out of Washington," says Reston, "than the public shows much stomach...