News is a Singular Thing

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NEWS IS A
SINGULAR THING
Marguerite Higgins
This is the Pulitzer prize-winning
correspondent's own account of her
career in crises. In it Maggie Higgins
tells what it means to be in the front
lines of history-in-the-making, to live
in a world where your future is a
deadline and your home is a dateline.
The young New York Herald Trib-
une reporter has covered lots of
ground and lots of news in the past
fifteen years. Along with her highly
successful headline hunting she has
found time to lead a full personal life
and she describes with great candor
how «poignant love affair competed
with hoferiews beats.
This fMcinating story of journalistic
barnstorming is filled with colorful
people in g. veolorful profession, and
with events giav.e, humorous, or hor-
rifying, from Cfekland, California, to
New York, to Paris, to Buchenwald, to
Pusan—to fame. It also contains some
wise "second thoughts," whether on
the fate of nations or on that indefin-
able spirit... Tovább

Fülszöveg

NEWS IS A
SINGULAR THING
Marguerite Higgins
This is the Pulitzer prize-winning
correspondent's own account of her
career in crises. In it Maggie Higgins
tells what it means to be in the front
lines of history-in-the-making, to live
in a world where your future is a
deadline and your home is a dateline.
The young New York Herald Trib-
une reporter has covered lots of
ground and lots of news in the past
fifteen years. Along with her highly
successful headline hunting she has
found time to lead a full personal life
and she describes with great candor
how «poignant love affair competed
with hoferiews beats.
This fMcinating story of journalistic
barnstorming is filled with colorful
people in g. veolorful profession, and
with events giav.e, humorous, or hor-
rifying, from Cfekland, California, to
New York, to Paris, to Buchenwald, to
Pusan—to fame. It also contains some
wise "second thoughts," whether on
the fate of nations or on that indefin-
able spirit that binds people together
in time of war. This is why Maggie
Higgins—the heart behind the pencil
—is one of the most popular and
widely acclaimed reporters of our
time.
An ace reporters work is never done.
As Marguerite Higgins finished News
Is a Singular Thing, she was already
on her way to her next job, a com-
bination newspaper assignment and
research trip partly sponsored by
the Guggenheim Foundation. She
writes . . .
"I am currently in Helsinki, preparing
to leave for my first visit to Russia. . . .
I ask myself why I, a Western jour-
nalist considered by the Communists
to be a 'hyena of the press/ am sud-
denly equipped with a visa entitling
me to a ten-week trip through the
citadel of Communism. It has oc-
curred to me more than once that in
Korea I at least knew where my own
lines were. But once in Russia I will
have no lines at all. Inside thej|j|tftain
there is no island of safetyJMrpoint
of retreat. IgS^
"Despite these apprehj|[§ons I have
also been pleased to nc^SWat curiosity
and excitement stilwHSalance fear.
And, after all, the iBp are no greater
now than before. They are just dif-
ferent. I suspect that not only inter-
nationally but personally and profes-
sionally my life will in the future as
in the past be 'rough, but interesting.'
It also seems to me that this is prob-
ably the best frame of mind in which
to depart, as I do now, for Russia via
the Finland station." Vissza