Word: walker
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...bureaus in Berlin, Washington, Dallas and Tokyo all contributed to this issue's cover story on Walton Walker, commanding general of the Far East Command's Eighth Army. The story's opening account of one of the general's trips to the Korean front came from Frank Gibney, TIME'S Tokyo bureau chief, who went along for the ride...
...tough ride," Gibney cabled. "The general's expert jeep driver treated the jeep as if it were a plane while we rocketed along the narrow, crumbling, dusty roads. Taking that jeep ride was the best way of finding out how tireless and driving a man Walker is. There were no wasted seconds-even for lunch. The general did suggest that I take time out to eat with the drivers while he was conferring at a regimental command post, but I was too interested in the conference to accept his offer...
Last week Douglas MacArthur appointed stocky, tough-minded Lieut. General Walton H. Walker as ground commander in Korea, with the title of commanding general of the Far East Command's Eighth Army. "Johnnie" Walker, 60, replaced Major General William F. Dean, who reverted to his old job as commander of the 24th Division, which has borne the brunt of the U.S. fighting in Korea...
...General Walker has a reputation as a crack tactician and a canny trainer of green troops. In World War II he commanded the famed XX Corps, which spearheaded the late George Patton's Third Army across Western Europe. The Korean situation was as different from that as a model-T Ford is from a 30-ton truck. In Korea, Walker would need every scrap of his tactician's ingenuity; hardly ever before in history had a U.S. general taken on such a tough...
Marguerite Higgins of the New York Herald Tribune (TIME, July 10), only woman among the 131 correspondents in the Korean theater, was ordered to return to Tokyo last week. Lieut. General Walton H. Walker, ground forces commander in Korea, feared for her safety in the front lines. Said angry Newshen Higgins: "I am going down to General Walker's headquarters [to] convince him that I ... am here as a correspondent and not as a woman...