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Last week, after the Herald Tribune had added its protests to those of Correspondent Higgins, General Douglas Mac-Arthur reversed Walker's ruling. To the Herald Tribune, MacArthur sent a soothing telegram: "Ban on women correspondents in Korea has been lifted. Marguerite Higgins is held in highest professional esteem by everyone...
...weeks on the picket line at Scripps-Howard's New York World-Telegram & Sun, Reporter Joan Gahan, 24, had worn out three pairs of shoes. Last week, as she has done since the C.I.O. Newspaper Guild's strike began at the third biggest evening newspaper in the U.S. (circ. 612,468), Newshen Gahan took her two-hour daily turn. As the pickets ambled in circles at the newspaper's three entrances, some worked puzzles, read papers, or played "20 Questions...
...lines. Occasionally, the ugly cry of "Scab!" went up as a nonstriking editorial or business staffer darted into the dark, gloomy recesses of the W-T & S. A picket dangled a SCAB sign over a nonstriker while a photographer snapped him for the strikers' daily, two-page Guild Telegram & Sun. After their stint, Joan and some other pickets fanned out to cover their regular W-T & S beats for the strikers' 15-minute daily "radio newspaper," Seven Star Final, on three New York stations five nights a week. Once a week, strikers dropped into headquarters, in a doll...
...tabloid Post. Wall Streeters were also sending out for the Newark (N.J.) News, the only nearby afternoon paper that prints the complete stock market tables. All that the W-T & S could offer were daily sports broadcasts with this hopeful commercial: "Brought to you by the New York World-Telegram and Sun-a newspaper worth waiting...
Half a World Away. Waiting for the telegram from the Government in Washington (which arrived two days later), the Shadricks assembled their recollections of Kenny. It was probably the football uniform, his father decided, that started Kenny on the way to his death, half a world from Skin Fork...