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Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1951. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. fair to good. Carl Mydans (Photographer). 223 pages. illus., endpaper maps. Name in ink on ffep. Spine and edges of boards discolored, spine edges worn. Marguerite Higgins Hall (September 3, 1920 - January 3, 1966) was an American reporter and war correspondent. Higgins covered World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. She wporked for New York Herald Tribune (1942-1963), and later, as a syndicated columnist for Newsday (1963-1965). She was the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for Foreign Correspondence awarded in 1951 for her coverage of the Korean War. In 1950, Higgins was named chief of the Tribune's Tokyo bureau. When war broke out in Korea, she was one of the first reporters on the spot. On 28 June, Higgins and three of her colleagues witnessed the Hangang Bridge bombing. She was ordered out of the country by General Walton Walker, who argued that the military had no time to worry about…
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