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...Ernie Pyle, talking to a fellow newsman three months ago. Like many correspondents, and more than most, he had certainly used up chances. He had covered London in the blitz, slugged across North Africa, landed with the troops in Sicily. He had been bombed, slightly wounded and awarded the Purple Heart at Anzio. He had gone into Normandy on D + 1 and later watched in horror as Lieut. General Lesley J. McNair and other Americans were killed by their own planes at Saint...
...York University's Medical School, had a private Manhattan practice on the side. Resoundingly successful in her profession, she has met less success at the poker table and was baffled in the case of Bridget, a ten-year-old Briton whom she took in during the blitz. Bridget, though a nice child, proved many child-care textbook theories wrong, taught the child expert a good deal about children...
...clamped down on razzle-dazzle bucket-shop operations in the U.S., more & more high-pressure share-pushers have hung out their shingles in Ontario, where securities legislation is liberal. Well aware that war wages have burned new holes in many pockets, these "wheedle whackers" have lately stepped up their blitz...
...never been). He went to school on the Continent-first in Switzerland, then in Germany; and he lived and worked in Germany as a New York Times correspondent for years-all through the shame of Munich and the ravaging of Poland, the fall of France and the blitz of Britain. In fact, his mother and three sisters were caught in Leipzig when Hitler declared war on America-went through three of the heaviest bombings there ("The house was like rubber, bending back and forth, the floor rising up and down like waves...
This is an assignment that might stump a less experienced reporter-but Thompson, now 37, is a veteran foreign correspondent who started covering World War II almost from its beginning, during the Blitz in London. At home and abroad he worked 20 years for U.S. papers-gathered and wrote just about every kind of news "because I wanted to make myself an all around newsman." That background should stand him in good stead in Russia, where he will have to report not just diplomacy and war but the growth of a whole, new civilization...