Word: newshens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Marguerite Higgins of the New York Herald Tribune (TIME, July 10), only woman among the 131 correspondents in the Korean theater, was ordered to return to Tokyo last week. Lieut. General Walton H. Walker, ground forces commander in Korea, feared for her safety in the front lines. Said angry Newshen Higgins: "I am going down to General Walker's headquarters [to] convince him that I ... am here as a correspondent and not as a woman...
...Traveler seems like a shrieking sister of the Herald, but unlike most Boston papers, it often has the courage to shriek in crusades against political shenanigans and incompetent bureaucrats. Last year, its able newshen Sara White wrote a series which helped reinstate Miriam Van Waters, a competent reformatory superintendent who had been fired for too progressive penal methods. Last week, Reporter White also won freedom for a pregnant mother of four children, imprisoned for neglect without having been given legal counsel. But neither the Traveler nor any other Boston paper printed the prison record of J. Joseph Connors, appointed...
...mellow mood at a private party, and his quickness in sensing a news opening, that had won him his exclusive. What really galled his fellow newsmen was the fact that Krock had once more beaten them cleanly at their own game. In a left-handed way, sulking Newshen Fleeson gave him his due. Said she: "I take off my hat to Arthur Krock. He kicks Truman's teeth out 364 days a year, and on the 365th he gets an exclusive interview from [Truman's] own bleeding mouth...