Word: bigart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like many a war correspondent, the New York Herald Tribune's Pulitzer Prizewinner Homer Bigart feared that postwar reporting would seem dull. But last week, in his new post in Poland, he was in no danger of being bored. Bigart, who describes his own politics as "left-of-center," expected to be welcomed in Warsaw. Instead, he found himself in the thick of a fight...
...Other winners: The Scranton Times, public service; Reporters William L. Laurence and Arnaldo Cortesi (New York Times), Homer Bigart (New York Herald Tribune), Edward A. Harris (St. Louis Post-Dispatch); Cartoonist Bruce Russell (Los Angeles Times). History: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.'s Age of Jackson. Biography: Linnie M. Wolfe's Son of the Wilderness. Play: Lindsay & Grouse's State of the Union. Music: Leo Sowerby's Canticle of the Sun. Novel and poem: no award...
...Homer Bigart of the New York Herald Tribune looked at Warsaw last week through U.S. eyes. He attended Polish National Council meetings, reported them a "sorry travesty on parliamentary democracy," with a show-of-hands voting procedure so informal that he could have voted on half a dozen bills without detection. Wrote Bigart...
Only encouraging note in Bigart's report was the fact that it was sent, uncensored, from behind the Iron Curtain...
...Time. Homer Bigart, and many a city-room veteran like him, now wanted to return to assignments where one person getting killed at a time was news. Said Bigart at Guam last week: "A lot of foreign news is going to sound dull after the war. I wouldn't mind writing murder stories for a while-if I could pick the murders I wanted to cover...