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...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...
Professorial-looking Bigart, who talks with a slight stammer, joined the Herald Tribune in 1929 as an office boy, in 1933 began writing church news, finally worked up to fires and murders. In early 1943, when papers began converting young police reporters into war correspondents, Bigart was sent to England...
...Bigart was with the Seventh Army in Sicily, saw the Fifth Army liberate Rome, and watched MacArthur land in the Philippines. He was in action at Leyte, and invaded Okinawa with the Tenth Army. Other correspondents learned to respect him as a reporter who was "trying to build his reputation at the cannon's mouth." His dispatches appeared in only one paper, so his by-line was not as well known as many; but he was one of the war's best reporters...
...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...