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...other Balkan correspondent yearned to do, the New York Herald Tribune's Homer Bigart up & did. He found and interviewed Greek guerrilla General Markos in his Grammos Mountain stronghold. This week, after sitting on it for more than a fortnight (presumably to avoid competing with convention news), the Trib ran his interview as a four-part series. It tingled with some of the cloak-&-dagger thrills of an Eric Ambler novel...
...score his beat, Reporter Bigart had to "disappear" for two weeks. He was in Belgrade, and had told his office he was going to Rome to buy clothes. The first the Trib knew of his perilous mission was when the visit was broadcast over the rebel radio. (The U.S. Embassy at Athens, still nervous after Folk's murder, passed the word to the Trib that it would not be responsible for Bigart's safety...
...Trib, which had shouted the loudest against the plan, accusingly ticked off a list of beneficiaries, including the New York Times and Herald Tribune, LIFE, TIME, Newsweek and Reader's Digest (all of which publish foreign editions) and the A.P., U.P. and I.N.S...
...Washington, Cissie Patterson's Times-Herald, little cousin of the Trib, picked up the story. When Mississippi's John Rankin read it, he brayed to the House that "if it is true, it certainly is an outrage and . . . Congress should investigate it, and should...
...typical case was that of the European edition of the Herald Tribune. Last winter, it was forced to cut its circulation in Germany to under 5,000. It was unwilling to continue piling up marks which it could not exchange for other currencies or spend in Germany. The Paris Trib could sell 50,000 more copies a day to Germans and Austrians "who are hungry for news of the U.S." But to meet this demand, it would have to be able to trade $462,000 a year worth of blocked marks for dollars...