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...last August, a spry, 78-year-old Wetumka, Okla. farmer named J. M. Carter excitedly handed a copy of a local newspaper to his wife Martha Ellen. Their son, 19-year-old Pfc. James Madison Carter, said a news dispatch from Korea, had been decorated with the Silver Star, for helping to destroy an enemy tank. He had also been wounded in the action. Proud, worried, but in a way relieved in knowing that he would be out of danger in a hospital, they wrote asking him for details. This month their letters began coming back stamped: "Deceased-verified...
President Allen acted with dispatch. He impounded the 852 negatives, locked them up and suspended all photographing. But he was not in time to silence the howls. Newspapers picked up the story, splashed it into headlines (NUDE POSING OF COEDS RISES STORM . . .). To a good many readers, the whole affair sounded like some sort of campus peep show...
...Korea (TIME, July 24, 31), now stays at the front most of the time. She ranges such a wide beat that her New York office seldom knows where she is. This week, after days of suspiciously un-Higgins-like silence, they learned from her first delayed dispatch that Maggie Higgins had landed with the fifth wave of marines at Inchon and stayed with them under mortar and rifle fire and grenades until the beachhead was secured. She was making good an earlier promise: "I walked out of Seoul, and I want to walk back...
...months ago, Editor Gunn did it again. Over a dispatch from Korea, the Standard headlined: PEASANTS OUTCLASS THE MIGHTY U.S.A. Canada-born Lord Beaverbrook, who considers himself a staunch friend of the U.S., was furious, especially when the headline was quoted in the U.S. press as an instance of British ill will. The subeditor who wrote the headline was fired and the Beaver scorched Gunn for good measure. Gunn stood firm, argued that the headline was "no more than a quotation" (but not an exact one) from the story under it by Chicago Daily News Correspondent Keyes Beech...
...Tribune's front page one morning, readers found two local stories (FENCE PUZZLE NO ALDERMAN CAN STRADDLE; FIND WOMEN "SMUGGLED" INTO JAIL INMATES) and eight national and international stories, but no mention of the war, except a four-line box tucked in a Washington dispatch: "South Koreans fall back a mile . . . Details on page 9." On page 9, the Trib covered the Korean fighting with two brief wire-service stories. Explained a Trib deskman: "There wasn't much developing in the war that day. The people who get out the Tribune thought that there were...