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

["Charles and Marilyn Morris" <morriscm@cafes.net>]

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>From: Ben Frank <ben.frank@tcs.wap.org>
>To: KOREAN-WAR-L@raven.cc.ukans.edu
>Subject: Re: [the-forgotten-war] Stars and Stripes
>Date: Thu, Jun 22, 2000, 7:19 PM
>

>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
>-- 
>Benis M. Frank <ben.frank@tcs.wap.org>
>