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When the hard-fighting 27th (Wolf hound) Infantry Regiment stopped a Communist tank drive on Taegu a month ago, the New York Herald Tribune's pert, fearless Correspondent Marguerite Higgins cabled an eyewitness story of the four-hour battle. Last week, in a letter to the Trib, the regiment's hard-bitten Colo nel J. H. ("Mike") Michaelis complained that she had left out something important. He supplied...
Correspondent Higgins 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...
...Hong Kong in 1920, got her schooling in France and the University of California ('41). During the summer after graduation, she cubbed for the Vallejo (Calif.) Times-Herald. While she worked for her master's degree at Columbia's School of Journalism, she landed her first Trib job as a campus correspondent, was taken on full time when she finished Columbia in 1942. She was sent to the London bureau in 1944, got to Germany in time to cover the closing battles of World War II. At the Dachau concentration camp, while some correspondents dodged SS bullets...
...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 a lot of other good stories [readers] would be more interested...
Publisher Helen Reid of the Herald Tribune, as appalled as Parsons, sent Buel Weare, the New York Trib's syndicate manager, hustling to Paris to take over from Wise, who had resigned. Weare started to trim the small (19 men) editorial staff, and cut the Herald's eight-page editions to six and sometimes four pages. Month ago, Editor Parsons got a cable from Mrs. Reid to come home for a conference. There he learned that Weare had made another recommendation: lop off the editor's job-and Parsons' $19,500 salary-and combine the editor...