Reporting Under Fire (28 page)

“the opposition of the
…”: Peter Kurth,
American Cassandra: The Life of Dorothy Thompson
(Boston: Little, Brown, 1990), 425.

Although Dorothy's editors:
Ibid.

Chapter 3
: A Second World War: 1939–1945

“tremors of approaching
…”: Irene Corbally Kuhn, “Shanghai: The Way It Was: A Glance Back at a Short, but Extraordinary Era,”
Los Angeles Times,
October 19, 1986.

Martha Gellhorn

“I
think the world
…”: “The Outsiders: Martha Gellhorn,” interview by John Pilger, 1983, video, 26:05,
http://johnpilger.com/videos/the-outsiders-martha-gellhorn
.

“so that she can buy
…”: Martha Gellhorn, “Chronicling Poverty with Compassion and Rage,”
New Yorker,
January 17, 2013.

They stopped at a bar:
Kenneth Schuyler Lynn,
Hemingway
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987), 465.

“After all, they have
…”: “Only the Shells Whine,”
Collier's,
July 17, 1937, 64–65.

“The
boy was shy
…”: Ibid., 49.

“would soon start
…”: Ibid., 64.

“Hurry, hurry, before
…”: Martha Gellhorn,
Travels with Myself and Another
(New York: Jeremey P. Tarcher/Putnam, 2001), 27.

“a face of black hate”:
Ibid.

“M. is going off
…”: Ibid., 32.

“small tatty planes”:
Ibid., 15.

“The passengers
…”: Ibid., 33.

“a city shrouded”:
Ibid., 35.

“
in a class
…”: Ibid., 35.

“Endurance,”
Martha learned: Ibid., 35, 37.

“
were humane and civilized”:
Ibid., 64.

“He saw the Chinese
…”: Ibid., 61.

“
Behind the barbed
…”: Martha Gellhorn, “Dachau: Experimental Murder,”
Collier's
, June 25, 1945, 16.

“
wounded, napalmed
…”: Martha Gellhorn, “Combat Reporting,”
Telegraph
, April 28, 2001.

“
all this objectivity
…”: Ibid.

Sickened by what she saw
: Martha Gellhorn,
The View from the Ground
(New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1988), 329.

“
The Muslim Arab attitude
…”: Ibid., 293.

“
sexual scandal-mongering
…”: “The War for Martha's Memory,”
Guardian
, May 15, 2001.

“
Most of the media
…”: John Pilger, “The Salacious Demolition Job on Martha Gellhorn Cannot Obscure a Remarkable Human Being,”
http://johnpilger.com/articles/the-salacious-demolition-job-on-martha-gellhorn-cannot-obscure-a-remarkable-human-being
, accessed February 19, 2013.

Margaret Bourke-White

“
We climbed over
…”: Margaret Bourke-White,
Portrait of Myself
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1964), 18.

“
Wait,
”
Father said
: Ibid.

“
plump and harmless
…”: Ibid., 14.

“
that we both could
…”: Ibid., 24.

“
silver-cord entanglement
”: Ibid., 17.

“
You got him away
…”: Ibid.

“
opened a dazzling
…”: Ibid., 32.

“
smokestacks on the
…”: Ibid., 35.

“
Don't worry about
…”: Ibid., 35.

“
pictures and words
…”: Ibid., 64.

“
ghostly patchwork
…”: Ibid., 110.

“
Here in the Dakotas
…”: Ibid., 110.

“
more heart and mind
…”: Ibid., 136.

“
Then in the next
…”: Ibid., 183.

“
most determined
…”: Ibid., 183–84.

“
golden chains
”: Ibid., 197.

“
invisible ink
”: Ibid., 202.

Most military commanders
: Ibid., 202.

“‘
Hi, taxi!
'”: Ibid., 211.

All the while, Margaret hugged
: Ibid., 211.

“
Jesus Christ, they're
…”: Ibid., 231.

Margaret was on her way
: Ibid., 235–36.

“
sound of rushing wind
…”: Ibid., 246.

“
grotesque routine
”: Ibid., 246.

War could explain a lot
: Ibid., 248.

“
We didn't know
…”: Ibid., 258.

“
veil
”: Ibid., 259.

“
made the most
…”: Ibid.

Chapter 4
: A Cold War: 1945–1989

Marguerite Higgins

“
Then suddenly, for
…”: Marguerite Higgins and Carl Mydans,
War in Korea: The Report of a Woman Combat Correspondent
(New York: Doubleday, 1951), 107.

“
engaged in three
…”: Carl Mydans, “Girl War Correspondent,”
Life
, October 2, 1950, 57.

“
flabby routine of his
…”: Marguerite Higgins,
News is a Singular Thing
(New York: Doubleday, 1955), 26.

“that she should …”: Peter Noel Murray, “Marguerite Higgins: An Examination of Legacy and Gender Bias,” (PhD diss., School of the University of Maryland, College Park, 2003),

88–89. DRUM (
http://hdl.handle.net/1903/47
).

“
Marguerite is not so
…”: Ibid.

“
bitchy little story
”: Keyes Beech,
Tokyo and Points East
(New York: Doubleday, 1954), 168.

“
Korea was no
…”
War in Korea
, 17.

“
The road to Seoul
…”: Ibid., 19.

“
Streams of retreating
…”: Ibid., 27.

“
Are you correspondents
…”: Ibid., 78.

“
We know now that
…”: Ibid., 16.

“
What is more important
…”: Ibid., 58.

“
I had already been
…”: Ibid., 99–100.

“
there are no facilities
…”: Ibid., 97.

“
further clarified his
…”: Ibid., 107.

“
Ban on women
…”: Ibid., 107.

“
I started to say
…”: Ibid., 126.

“
Then, as the conviction
…”: Ibid., 127.

“
At three o'clock
…”: Ibid., 141–2.

“
Finally we pulled
…” : Ibid., 143.

“
The control ship
…”: Ibid., 143.

“
Come on, you big
…” : Ibid., 144–5.

“
the warmth and new
…”:
News is a Singular Thing
, 248.

“
For the simplest
…”: Ibid., 252.

“
Despite her success
…”:
Tokyo and Points East
, 183.

Chapter 5
: Ancient Peoples, Modern Wars

“
South Vietnam represents
…”: “John F. Kennedy Speeches: Remarks of Senator John F. Kennedy at the Conference on Vietnam Luncheon in the Hotel Willard, Washington, DC, June 1, 1956,”
www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Research-Aids/JFK-Speeches/Vietname-Conference-Washington-DC-19560601.aspx
.

Gloria Emerson

“Now Vietnam is our …”: Gloria Emerson,
Winners & Losers: Battles, Retreats, Gains, Losses, and Ruins from the Vietnam War
(New York: Random House, 1976), vii.

“Gloria Emerson, an award-winning …”: “Gloria Emerson Obituary,”
http://gloriaemerson.com/obit.pdf
.

“
And scoop a cloud
…”: Joyce Hoffman,
On Their Own: Women Journalists and the American Experience in Vietnam
(Cambridge, MA: De Capo Press, 2008), 23.

“
allowed to go
…”: Craig R. Whitney, “Gloria Emerson, Chronicler of War's Damage, Dies at 75,”
New York Times
, August 5, 2004,
www.nytimes.com/2004/08/05/arts/gloria-emerson-chronicler-of-war-s-damage-dies-at-75.html
.

“
Even the Postcards
…”: Gloria Emerson, “Even the Postcards in Saigon Depict G.I.'s in Battle,”
New York Times
, March 7, 1970.

“
On Med-Evac Copter
…”: Gloria Emerson, “On Med-Evac Copter, Faces and Pain,”
New York Times
, June 20, 1970.

build a truly sovereign
: Gloria Emerson, “Buddhist Monks Quietly Lead Campaign Against Thieu,”
New York Times
, September 3, 1971.

Once a Vietnamese woman
: Gloria Emerson, et. al.,
War Torn: Stories of War from the Women Reporters Who Covered Vietnam
(New York: Random House, 2002), xvi.

“
warrior sense of revenge
”: Gloria Emerson. “Vietnamese General and a G.I. Who Want to See Victory,”
New York Times
, February 17, 1971.

“
Facts Invented for
…”: Gloria Emerson, “Facts Invented for a General's Medal,”
New York Times
, October 21, 1970.

“
To Company B
…”: Gloria Emerson, “To Company B, Apricots Suggest Death,”
New York Times
, December 13, 1970.

“
She
[Gloria]
jerked me by
…”: Judith Coburn, “Gloria Emerson,
May 19, 1929–August 4, 2004,”
http://gloriaemerson.com/memorial_gloria.html
.

“
such a dark and
…”:
On Their Own
, 14.

She took on rock star
: “John Lennon's Legacy,”
The Notion
blog on
The Nation
's website, December 7, 2006,
www.thenation.com/blog/john-lennons-legacy
.

“
I could not rejoice
” Maria S. Bonn, “The Lust of the Eye: Michael Herr, Gloria Emerson and the Art of Observation,”
Papers on Language and Literature
29, no. 1 (1993): 29–30.

“
It's absolutely disgusting
…” : Rod Nordland, “Gloria Emerson, May 19, 1929–August 4, 2004,”
http://gloriaemerson.com/memorial_gloria.html
.

Georgie Anne Geyer

“
Being from the South
…” Georgie Anne Geyer,
Buying the Night Flight: The Autobiography of a Woman Foreign Correspondent
(New York: Delacorte Press, 1983), 120.

“
For one reason
…”: Ibid., 282-83.

“
simply
knew
things
”: Ibid., 276.

“
If you were not
…”: Ibid., 27.

“
one of those suburban
…”: Ibid., 27–28.

“
a very real bully
…”: Ibid., 27

“
What if one person
…”: Georgie Anne Geyer, e-mail to author, October 25, 2012.

“
My choosing a profession
…”:
Buying the Night Flight
, 29–30.

“
My family simply told
…”: Ibid.

“
I particularly resented
…”: Ibid.

“
Heroism had failed
…”: Ibid., 38.

“
The
Daily News
was also
…”: Ibid., 40.

“
The mob went to a party
…”: Ibid., 42.

“
The bishop of Chimbote
…”: Ibid., 50.

“
In that languid scene
…”: Ibid., 56.

“
every night we argued
…”: Ibid., 57.

“
We—and only we
…”: Ibid., 58.

“
What you have here
…”: Ibid., 60.

“
I could take no chance
…”: Ibid., 73.

Castro exerted
“
mind control
”: Ibid., 78.

“
You're not playing games
…”: Ibid., 5.

But the polite stranger
… : Ibid., 5.

“
puta
”: Ibid., 12.

A young guerilla startled
: Ibid., 16.

After dinner with a friend
: Ibid., 20.

“
You learn what is real
…”: Ibid., 144.

“
torment for any honest
…”: Ibid., 145.

“
Dear, I'm surprised
…”: Ibid., 154.

“
it would be around
…”: Ibid., 154.

“
When I went to Latin
…”: Georgie Anne Geyer, e-mail to author, October 25, 2012.

“
a whole wonderful
…”: Ibid.

“
a direct descendent
…”:
Buying the Night Flight
, 327.

“
sense of serenity
…”: Ibid., 287.

“
Strange things
…”: Georgie Anne Geyer, e-mail to author.

Chapter 6
: A Challenge That Never Ends

Janine di Giovanni

“
When I look at war
…”: Janine di Giovanni, “Syria: When Nonviolent Revolutions Spin Into Bloodshed,”
Newsweek
, March 11, 2013.

“
isolated profession
…”: Janine di Giovanni, interview with author, September 25, 2012.

“
eccentric and out-of-the-box
…”: Ibid.

“
live the life
…”: Ibid.

But the neighboring country
:
No Man's Land
:
Women Frontline Journalists
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