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Correspondent Homer Bigart of the New York Herald Tribune told what happened when several hundred trapped Reds stormed two U.S. artillery batteries. "In action of a type seldom seen outside American Civil War prints, the artillerymen leveled their 105-mm. howitzers at enemy troops which at times penetrated within a hundred yards of the guns. With fuses set at zero, the artillerymen were using Charge 7-the maximum powder charge a 105 will take. Charge 7 is almost as rough on the guns as it was today on the Reds." Three out of the batteries' four guns were burned...
From a low ridgeline above the Kum River last week, three U.S. correspondents watched an outnumbered, outgunned battalion of G.I.s fight a desperate delaying action. Only one of the newsmen, the New York Herald Tribune's Homer Bigart, got back to write about it. The others, Ray Richards of Hearst's International News Service and Corporal Ernie Peeler of Stars and Stripes, were killed as they ran for a jeep when the battalion was cut off. Richards was shot through the head, Peeler through the chest. They were the first newsmen to die in the Korean...
Wanted: Six Divisions. On a day when Pentagon spokesmen in Washington described the Korean situation as "not serious," the New York Herald Tribune's Homer Bigart, who was in the field, described it as not only serious but "desperate." On good flying days, U.S. and Australian fighter planes harried the enemy armor and communications, but in the rainy monsoon season, good flying days are too few. In spite of continued B-29 bombing north of the 38th parallel and effective raids on the Han River crossings, the enemy seemed to be keeping his supply lines in fair order...
Divine Prerogatives. To back up his charges, Dean Bowie cited such modern instances as the Vatican's Lateran Treaty with Mussolini (which named Roman Catholicism "sole religion of the State"); the recent reports by New York Herald Tribune Correspondent Homer Bigart of discrimination against Protestants in Spain (TIME, March 7); the 1885 encyclical of Pope Leo XIII stating that "it is not lawful for the State ... to hold in equal favor different kinds of religion"; and an article in the Jesuit publication La Civiltà Cattolica (TIME, June 28, 1948) which stated: "The Roman Catholic Church, convinced, through...
...many obstacles to reporting the news in Russia's satellite Balkan countries that their number has been reduced to a handful. Each remaining correspondent wonders whether his next visa will be renewed. A recent departure from their thinning ranks was the New York Herald Tribune's Homer Bigart who, although his visa was in perfect order, was given 24 hours to get out of Hungary for a straightforward piece of reporting that displeased the Communist authorities there...