Re: [the-forgotten-war] Stars and Stripes

[Ben Frank <ben.frank@tcs.wap.org>]

That was Marguerite Higgins, a New York Herald Tribune reporter, who 
was in competition for a Pulitzer with the other Tribune reporter in 
Korea, Homer Bigart. She was reportedly pushy, and somehow managed to 
wangle a ride up to the landing strip the 1st Marine Division had 
built to accommodate transports which brought in replacement, ammo, 
etc., and carried out the wounded. When General Shepherd, who was up 
there then visiting the 1st MarDiv commander, O.P. Smith, learned 
that she was there and wanted to march out to Hungnam with the 
division, Shepherd hit the ceiling and ordered her placed on the next 
plane out, and she was. BMF
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Benis M. Frank <ben.frank@tcs.wap.org>