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...ticked off as "highhanded and inept." Last week, as might be expected, a Look article said that MacArthur should be removed from command because of the reverses in Korea. As might also be expected, the writer of the article was the New York Herald Tribune's Correspondent Homer Bigart, who has been harshly critical of MacArthur's conduct of the war from the beginning...
...Look, battle-worn Correspondent Bigart flatly blamed MacArthur for the "unsound deployment of the United Nations forces and a momentous blunder." He shed an editorial tear for the "great tragedy that a man who served his country so nobly should be hounded and disparaged in the final hours of his career. But that," Bigart added, "is one of the occupational hazards of being a general. MacArthur grossly miscalculated . . . the forces against him. And no nation in the spot we are now in can string along with a leader whose ill-considered decision to launch the offensive of November 24 precipitated...
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...
...travels light, usually carries only a typewriter and a musette bag of toilet gear, eats & sleeps where she can (often on the ground), insists on no billeting favors because of her sex. As an all-round journalist, Newshen Higgins may not be quite up to her Trib colleague, Homer Bigart (with whom her feud for beats is already a Korean legend), or with some of the other crack correspondents in Korea. But she tries to make up for it by getting up earlier, and if necessary, working 24 hours a day. Said one colleague: "There's nothing...
...Philip Potter of the Baltimore Sun and Jean de Premonville of Agence France-Presse, who were wounded slightly when they ran into a guerrilla ambush during a night drive from Yongsan to Pusan. Three other correspondents who were with them, including the New York Herald- Tribune's Homer Bigart, escaped injury...