Knock's Law

Even though New York Times Pundit Arthur Krock has aimed many a shrewd blow at the New and Fair Deals, both Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman gave him exclusive interviews that resulted in Krock's winning a Pulitzer Prize and a special citation. Last week James ("Scotty") Reston, No. 2 man in the Times's Washington bureau, explained how Bureau Chief Krock manages to do it. Writing in the Times's house organ on Krock's 25th anniversary with the paper, Reston says that Krock's exclusives illustrate "what must hereinafter be known as the give-'em-hell rule of journalism or Krock's law." The law: "Nothing loosens up a well-informed circle like a good kick in the pants."

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