Word: bigart
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with us or to try to outflank us." The Trib still had stars: Drama Critic Walter Kerr, TV Critic John Crosby, Fashion Editor Eugenia Sheppard, Food Editor Clementine Paddle-ford; Columnists Red Smith, Art Buchwald, Joe Alsop and Walter Lippmann; Pulitzer Prizewinning Korean War Correspondents Homer Bigart and Marguerite Higgins. But while they still provided some bite, the paper had no molars. Able reporters and rewritemen, a paper's lifeblood, were vanishing. Star Reporter Bigart, back from Korea, was appalled at the change and defected to the Times...
...battlefield. "Maggie wears mud like other women wear makeup," said an admiring G.I. In fact, she used her blonde, blue-eyed charm to get the stories she wanted, a ploy that left some of her male colleagues sputtering with rage. Angriest of all was her fellow Trib reporter Homer Bigart. "Maggie is driving Homer right into a Pulitzer Prize for the best coverage of the Korean War," said another correspondent. The two drove each other; they shared a Pulitzer...
...outlawed by the Belgians 40 years ago, but the local misheke, or tribal poison mixer, remains a man of high honor and awesome power. In recent weeks, since the revival of tschipapa trials, 241 witches have been poisoned to death, reported New York Times Correspondent Homer Bigart...
Sometimes Belgian police, arriving immediately after a poison trial, have administered emetics and saved the lives of suspected witches, but this merely means the defendant must undergo another trial later. Most victims, anxious to prove their innocence, undergo tschipapa willingly, reported Correspondent Bigart, and are reluctant to help the Belgians prosecute the sorcerers...