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...hardly known outside his small audience. We note with pleasure that many of the writers, reporters, cartoonists and newspapers that TIME has singled out for praise have later turned up as Pulitzer Prizewinners (including Anthony Leviero of the New York Times; Marguerite Higgins and Homer Bigart of the New York Herald Tribune; Cartoonists James Berryman and Rube Goldberg; and Long Island's Newsday...
...said U.S. Presidential Envoy Joseph Lawton Collins last month, "unless the Vietnamese are determined to be free." Last week General Collins flew back to Washington bearing news of considerable Vietnamese determination. "Things are looking up in South Viet Nam," reported the New York Herald Tribune's Homer Bigart at the same time. "The odds on holding the place, quoted at no better than one in ten a month ago, are now reduced to one in five." One of the reasons for the changing odds-adverse though they still are-is a series of indications that Nationalist Premier Ngo Dinh...
Last week the New York Herald Tribune's Correspondent Homer Bigart became the first U.S. newspaperman to visit the camp on Phuquoc. Bigart reported that the refugee Nationalists have been whipped into a tight, well-conditioned force which, in spite of three years of jungle life and inadequate health facilities, could field some 12,000 combat troops on quick notice...
...Bigart found the camp excited about President Eisenhower's deneutralization of Formosa, and hopeful that it meant that they now would be allowed to rejoin Chiang Kai-shek on Formosa...
...fact that many of the censorship violations and other troubles with correspondents were due to snafus . among the Army censors themselves. But Voorhees does pay his respects to many reporters who in his judgment did a good job. Topping his list is the Herald Tribune's Homer Bigart. Among several dozen others who rate high marks on his list: the Associated Press's Leif Erickson, Reuters' Ronald Bachelor, I.N.S. Correspondent Frank Conniff (the best for "atmospheric prose"), the New York Times's Dick Johnson. The Trib's Marguerite Higgins often filed good stories, says Voorhees...