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Every salaried newsman, they say, dreams of some day buying his own little newspaper. For New York Times Columnist James Reston, the dream has come true. Last week he announced that he had purchased the Vineyard Gazette (average circ. 5,900), the 122-year-old weekly that serves the resort island of Martha's Vineyard, Mass. If Reston ever gives up his Washington beat to ruminate for the Gazette, it will not be all that much of a comedown. For the Gazette is one of the most colorful and quoted of U.S. weeklies...
Sooner or later, Reston will add his own thoughts to the weekly. He is not sure what he will say but it will not be what his current readers are used to. "It will be interesting to report life," he says, "instead of politics...
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...
Under Arthur Krock and James Reston, the Times's outpost in the capital grew into an independent 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...
...Book. In a review of the manual, Humorist Marvin Kitman revealed that he was the author, with an assist from other editors of Monocle magazine. Not that he entirely approves of the practice. "The four most shocking pseudonyms in use today," he confides, "are Walter Lippmann, Art Buchwald, James Reston and Arthur Krock...