Letter to the New York Herald Tribune about becoming a stringer

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Title: Letter to the New York Herald Tribune about becoming a stringer
Description: Letter from Beverly Keever to the New York Herald Tribune about whether she would be hired as a stringer at the paper
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Saigon.
March 19, 1962
Managing Editor
New York Herald-Tribune
230 West 41st Street
New York 36, New York
Dear Sir:
I have not received your reply to my letter of February 11.
May I or may I not be the Herald-Tribune stringer in Vietnam?
Enclosed is an article for you to judge my writing. If you don't
want it, toss it in the wastebasket.
I am a woman in a man's world-Viet Nam. I'm a young Midwesterner in
an old situation-war in the Far East. I can give the Herald-Tribune
top-flight stories written by a woman--a statement no other paper in the
United States can make.
Both the Vietnamese and United States military respect me as a journalist-
Gen. Tran Van Don in the I Corps area
and perhaps more important as a woman.
south of the 17th parallel--a sold military man-would take me on almost any
mission. Gen. Ton That Dinh in the II Corps--the playboy type-would do the
same.
I have
I am positive I can get an interview for you with President Diem.
already held a 1-hour one with his powerful sister-in-law, Madame Nhu, which I
wrote for the Associated Press. I have even been "honored" by having dinner
with the head of the secret police.
My reporting will supplement-not compete with daily wire service
coverage.
It will be concentrated outside of Saigon where the military action
is taking place. I'm not afraid of getting shot at--and I'm lucky enough not
to get hit. I love getting into trouble, but I make sure I can get out of it.
What else do you want in a correspondent?
Dean Edward W. Barrett,
Please check the references I listed previously:
Columbia University Graduate school of Journalism and Mr. Samuel Lubell,
180 East End Avenue. And cable your reply to Associated Saigon
Thank you for your consideration of this letter.
Sincerely yours,.
(Miss) Beverly Deepe
Date: 1962, Mar. 19
Subject: Stringers (Journalists); Journalists; Journalism; New York herald tribune
Location: Saigon, South Vietnam
Coordinates: 10.8231; 106.6311
Size: 20 x 26 cm
Container: B12, F7
Format: commercial correspondence
Collection Number: MS 363
Collection Title: Beverly Deepe Keever, Journalism Papers
Creator: Keever, Beverly Deepe
Collector: Keever, Beverly Deepe
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Language: English