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...cowboy belt, a jeep. He won a Pulitzer Prize, and the first Raymond Clapper Memorial Award for war correspondence. His collected G.I. columns, Here Is Your War, sold over a million copies; a second collection, Brave Men, sold 875,000. Hollywood made a movie (soon to be released) with Burgess Meredith playing Ernie Pyle. Ernie's earnings reached a half million dollars...
...Burgess Meredith does all the talking in "Forgotten Village," but the camera is the hero. It shies at nothing, going even farther than the Russians' recent "Rainbow" in showing the agony of a woman in primitive childbirth. Generally when Hollywood runs down to Mexico to make a movie, it leaves out all the flies and filth; "Forgotten Village" is full of both...
...David S. Burgess, Manhattan Congregational minister, cried that the attack was "unChristian and un-American." Requiring every Government official to accept the divinity of Christ, said he, "would bar all Jews, nonbelievers, and a good percentage of Protestants from state and federal appointments. If it had been applied in the past, it would have eliminated many of the signers of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution from participating in national affairs." He might have added Presidents Taft and the two Adamses, Justice Brandeis...
Other Brödel pupils represented in the show are Hopkins' Ranice W. Birch and Annette Burgess, Mayo Clinic's Russell Drake, Yale's Armin Hemberger. Their pictures clearly demonstrate that a good medical artist takes pleasure in beauty as well as scientific exactness. Most delicate are Miss Burgess' paintings of the tissue at the back of the eye, with each vein in glowing color. There is also a careful picture of a seven-and-a-half-day-old human embryo magnified 500 times (see cut), which James Didusch took two months to draw...
Ernie Pyle, on his way to report the war in the Pacific, stopped off in Hollywood, posed with his cinema self, bewigged Burgess Meredith, who plays the U.S.'s favorite war correspondent in the forthcoming film...