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Cause to Sweat. The prime blame for the leak should have been put on Howard Handleman, International News Service bureau chief in Tokyo, who wrote the first dispatch announcing that fresh U.S. troops had arrived in Korea to the tune of two brass bands. Handleman's report violated a correspondents' agreement to wait for an official release from General Headquarters, ignored a GHQ ruling against revealing the arrival of new units until they were in action. After he filed, U.P. put out the story also. Said Handleman in self-justification : "I stand on what I file. If they...
Army Public Information officers, hot under the collar at Handleman's story, were given fresh cause to sweat only a day later. Spurred on by INS reports that some of the ist Marine Division had reached Korea, the Associated Press announced the arrival of the division nearly 24 hours before it actually happened. Army men were worried, too, by front-line stories detailing U.S. losses and plans-a practice for which the U.P.'s Robert Miller had been reprimanded early in July...
...same day, General MacArthur flew to Korea (see WAR IN ASIA), taking along four correspondents-the Associated Press's Russell Brines, the United Press's Earnest Hoberecht, International News Service's Howard Handleman, and Australian Newsman Roy MacArtney. In the Bataan, when it flew back to Tokyo with MacArthur, was LIFE'S Photographer David Duncan, who took with him the first complete picture coverage of the war. (His photographs appear in this week's LIFE and TIME...
LEYTE CALLING - Lieut. Joseph St. John, as told to Howard Handleman-Yanguard...
George H. Handleman -- Miss Rosa Sadler, Cambridge...