...The most famous woman journalist to venture into the Korean war, and holder of the highest decorations in reward for her courage in braving the fire to gather news for the press.
"...Any woman who wants to enter man's working field while believing herself less capable than he, and confessing her helplessness because she is a female, is not fit for his world, and had better avoid the gamble," says Marguerite Higgins, the daring American journalist who writes the lead article of the most famous newspaper in the world, the New York Herald Tribune.
Marguerite entered the world of journalism at twenty-four, and distinguished herself in it while still at the universities of California and Columbia, where she was appointed correspondent for the latter before finishing her studies in 1941. The sun of that day had not set before the dawn of her success broke, as a result of the echo of her valuable address on the day she left the university, when she was appointed head of the staff of the aforementioned newspaper. She threw herself into the work with the energy of a giant who knows no weariness. She thinks much, speaks as little as possible, and is earnest, so as to create an atmosphere of partnership between herself and her brother man — avoiding excessive demands and orders, lest it be said that she exploits the position of the femininity complete in her, with its beauty that penetrates to the depths of hearts. In her glances there is a deep calm mingled with ambition and hope in the
unknown future, and in her voice a huskiness that draws the listener to her. Slender of figure, the curls of her golden hair falling over her forehead lend her the simplicity of a child, which rouses a man's chivalry to attend to her before he reads in her features the determination and steadfastness against life's temptations. Daring, integrity, and boldness are her most prominent qualities. She is frank in her speech and in her writings. Her greatest book, "War in Korea," explains the position of Europe and the instability of the Near and Far East, appreciating the struggle and the difficulty of its ascent — and there is no end of telling what mockery and ridicule Marguerite met with from her male colleagues when she boarded the plane bound for Korea, two days after war broke out there, to verify the reports for herself and to furnish her paper with the nearest thing to accuracy and truth.
She was the only woman among three hundred male competitors in the field of war. They whispered among themselves, sounding out one another's opinions about her, and the answer of those who pitied her was: "This is a man's fight" — woman has no part in it. At the first cannon she hears, she will turn back. All this did not turn her from her resolve, and she did not allow her femininity to come between her and her ambition. The roar of the cannon did not shake her, the moaning of the wounded did not frighten her, and the flowing blood did not daunt her. She accompanied the infantry
to the front, carrying with