Word: bigart
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tactful Discrimination The bitter, no-quarter rivalry between the New York Herald Tribune's Marguerite Higgins and Homer Bigart became legend among correspondents early in the Korean war. In their efforts to outdo each other, Bigart and Maggie Higgins also turned in some of the war's best reporting. Both were named 1950 Pulitzer Prizewinners...
...York Herald Tribune's Marguerite Higgins and Homer Bigart (a two-time winner, TIME, Aug. 27, 1945 et seg.); the Chicago Daily News's Keyes Beach and Fred Sparks; and Associated Press's Relman Morin and Don Whitehead. A.P.'s Max Desfor won the picture prize with a shot of refugees fleeing across a war-wrecked bridge in Korea; the New York Times's roving European correspondent, Cyrus Sulzberger, a special citation for his European interviews. On the home news front, .the Columbia University trustees gave no prize for national coverage...
Married. Homer Bigart, 43, Pulitzer Prizewinning correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune; and Alice Veit, 32, former Trib secretary; in New York City...
Look's editors had cabled Bigart for "a report on the situation in Korea," after he had made much the same charges early in December in a dispatch to the Herald Tribune from Seoul. MacArthur had ignored the Trib story. But this time, prompted by Radio Commentator Robert Montgomery, MacArthur fired off a scorching reply to Bigart's article...
MacArthur identified Bigart's charges as "a phase of the irresponsible propaganda campaign against the command." He added: "I know of no professional soldier who will fail to recognize that the tactics of which [Bigart] complains and which he understands so little probably saved the Eighth Army from destruction and certainly from much heavier losses...