– Frank McNally on a pioneering war correspondent, Maggie Higgins

Among the mostly male and typically grim faces in the exhibits of a war museum near the Korean border, there is a strikingly female one, smiling broadly.

She recalled: “In my father’s telling and retelling of his exploits as a World War I ambulance driver and later as a flier, it became apparent escaping the flabby routine of his petty bourgeois life in Oakland, California, a city noted for neither character nor excitement”. Berkeley University followed, and later Colombia in New York, a city she travelled to in 1941 “with a suitcase and $7″.

Later she also had to face down a more senior Tribune correspondent, Homer Bigart, who arrived to cover the conflict and ordered her back to the bureau in Tokyo.

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