 Dickinson was the first to report many wartime events and the only reporter to land on Leyte from the same landing barge as Gen. Douglas MacArthur.He flew with MacArthur from Okinawa to Tokyo to witness the surrender of Japan aboard the in 1945.From 1949, he was successively news editor, managing editor and executive editor of the "Philadelphia Bulletin" until his retirement in 1973, by which time the newspaper had reached the then highest circulation in its history.