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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...
Last week Manhattan's Overseas Press Club dealt out its annual awards, coveted because they are the kudos of working newsmen. With a tactful sense of discrimination, it gave Homer Bigart its citation for the "best consistent press reporting from abroad." To Maggie Higgins went the George Polk Memorial Award (plus $500 provided by CBS) for "courage, integrity and enterprise above and beyond the call of duty." Other awards: ¶General war reporting, A.P.'s Hal Boyle. ¶Foreign-news interpretation, the New York Times's James Reston. ¶Radio & TV interpretation, CBS's Ed Murrow...
...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...
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...