News is a Singular Thing [antikvár]

Introduction T In the midst of the worst fighting in Korea, I received a telegram from Emmet Hughes, then text editor of Life magazine, inquiring, "What does it feel like to be a lone woman correspondent among all those men?" I thought it best at the time to leave the evaluation of my performance to some- one else, in that case Carl Mydans of Life's staff, who, it seemed to me, answered the question thoroughly. But it has been my experience that curiosity about a woman working in a man's world (so called) frequently takes discon- certing priority over my own greatest interest: the reporting and interpretation of foreign affairs. It's deflating to work hard at putting together a lecture on the Communist plan for tak- ing over the Far East and then have the first question from the audience be, "How did you get to be a foreign correspond- ent?" or "Why did you want to do all those things?" All of this, of course, is an indirect way of inquiring, "What makes Maggie run?"