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...people of Albuquerque gave him a $500 wrist watch. Paulette Goddard, Olivia de Havilland and Jinx Falkenburg kissed him, all in one afternoon. Two universities gave him honorary degrees. Admirers sent him apples, pecans, a 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...
...late Raymond Clapper had New Deal leanings that did not blind him to New Deal faults; his prose was not always exciting but his words were usually scrupulously fair. These qualities are shared by his good friend Raymond ("Pete") Brandt, 48, Washington bureau chief since 1934 for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, whose kettledrum voice frequently rattles the gimcracks on Franklin Roosevelt's desk when he rumbles out an embarrassing question at Presidential press conferences...
Last week ex-Rhodes Scholar Pete Brandt was unanimously chosen by fellow newsmen to be the first recipient of the $500 annual Raymond Clapper Memorial Award for the fairness and quality of his Washington reporting. He got the prize at a White House Correspondents' dinner attended by Franklin Roosevelt. The President had not been told the winner's name beforehand, only that it was someone he liked and respected. Said he, when Brandt's name was announced: "I'd have voted the same...
...Raymond Clapper, plainspeaking, widely read, plain man's columnist who was killed in a plane crash during the invasion of the Marshalls a year ago, was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart by the U.S. Navy, which cited him as a "brilliant journalist" who died in "gallant company and in a worthy cause...
...late Raymond Clapper once wrote: ". . . When government is fluid and dominated by the executive branch, [power] goes to the men who have the force to win it?the boldness, the resourcefulness and the sure judgment that command confidence. . . ." Like his boss, Harry Hopkins has boldness and resourcefulness in high degree. His admirers think his judgment is not only uncannily swift, but uncannily sure to fit what the President is thinking...