NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENT

War Correspondent.

Marguerite Higgins was the most publicized newspaperwoman of the 1950s. Although a seasoned reporter from her experience during World War II—she was with Allied troops as they liberated the Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps in 1945—Higgins first gained widespread public notice as a war correspondent during the Korean War.

Korean War.

Higgins joined the staff of the New York Herald Tribune in 1942 and remained with the paper throughout her career. From 1946 to 1950 she served as Berlin bureau chief for the Herald Tribune. In 1950 she was transferred to Tokyo as chief of the Far East bureau just before the invasion of South Korea by North Korea. She arrived in Korea two days after the initial Communist invasion and remained near the front for much of the war, to the dismay of both Homer Bigart, the official Herald Tribune war...