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MORE OR LESS PERSONALNewspaper people are a restless lot. As a result any editorial department has Interesting alumni from faraway places who dropin from time to time.• • *Over the holidays, alumni from Toledo.Minneapolis and New York stopped thewheels of progress forJournal a ^ew moments whilethey reminisced aboutAlumna the days on The LincolnJournal and talked about the world outside.One alumna isn’t likely to drop in for awhile, but a write-up about Beverly Deepe in Time magazine brought back memories of the quiet, studious young girl who worked at The Lincoln Journal during her college years at the University of Nebraska.Beverly started making a mark for herself the day she entered the University. She won scholarship honors during her first year and never stopped piling them up throughout her academic career at NU and Columbia University where she took graduate work.In 1958 she was one of a group of 40 students who went to Russia on an exchange program. During that time she wrote some stories for The Journal.• • •Armed with education, ability and courage, Bev roamed the world at a free lance reporter. In 1961 she applied for a visa to visit Communist China. She booked passage on a Polish freighter from Japan with a stop scheduled for Shanghai, hoping to win permissionfrom local officials to go ashore.• • • •She didn’t get it, but wrote her observa-s from the harbor, which appeared in an story in The Journal in 1961.At present she is a correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune covering the War in South Vietnam. What made her feature copy for Time Magazine was her scoop interview with Lieut. Gen. Nguyen Khanh inwhich the general attacked Ambassador Maxwell Taylor.Time says she is the only U.S. reporter not regularly invited to official U.S. briefings. To which Beverly retorts, “They don’tlike me because I won’t say what they want me to say.”• • •She gets a good rating from Time which not only calls her “Saigon's prettiest Western correspondent.” but says, “By now she has developed resources and contacts that largely obviate the need for getting along with the embassy, or even with Saigon’s somewhat clubby and introspective press corps.”APalless. She told Time, “I luxury I can’t afford.Deepe HigginsI’m a woman journalist, and I’m competing with men.This is not new for her. A 1957 clipping reads, “The men student journalists had to swallow their pride. Beverly Deepe of Carle-ton was announced winner of the Sigma DeltaChi (a men’s journalistic fraternity) awardfor the senior with the highest scholastic ranking.”• • »Still back in those days no one lookedupon Beverly as a second Marguerite Higgins,the New York Herald Tribune gal who covered the Korean War.
Newspaper Details
Lincoln Evening Journal and Nebraska State Journal
Lincoln, Nebraska, US
Sat, Jan 09, 1965
Page 4
Full Page
Clipped by
Bernard M.
USA 13 Feb 2023
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