The Press: Maggie v. the Boors

As a correspondent in Korea, the New York Herald Tribune's Marguerite Higgins could hardly find words enough to praise the battling G.I.s—and they liked her too. Fortnight ago, Correspondent

Higgins took a look at another group of G.I.s and clucked her tongue. She wrote from Frankfurt that some soldiers in the U.S. occupation forces are brawling, raucous boors who whistle and shout "Kommen Sie her" from street corners at every passing fraulein. Such carryings-on may have been understandable right after the war, wrote Correspondent Higgins, but now it is inexcusable, and hardly the way...

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