Whenever the good, grey New York Times scored a notable beat on labor union news over the past quarter-century, competing papers scarcely needed to look at the byline to know who had scooped them. Almost always it was studious, mild-mannered Louis Stark, ablest of U.S. labor reporters.
Thus he was first with the story that the A.F.L. had secretly decided to pull out of the United Labor Policy Committee (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). For Stark, the scoop was a valedictory. Last week, after 28 years in the rough & tumble of the union beat, ailing...
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