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This event was reported by the first U.S. newsman to enter Paris, TIME'S Chief War Correspondent Charles Christian Wertenbaker. With LIFE'S Photographer Robert Capa, and Private Hubert Stickland of Norfolk, Va. as driver, Werten-baker's jeep drove directly behind General Leclerc's armored...
We stood in the twilight and discussed the news of the battle inside the city. It had started on the 19th and, in spite of a reported armistice which has never been verified, much less kept, had never slackened in fury. By Thursday night the Resistance forces held not only...
He signed up for journalism because he had heard it was a snap course. The high spot of his college career was a trip to Japan with the Indiana University base ball team. No athlete, he thumbed his way to the coast, worked his passage across the Pacific as a...
Writing and Restlessness. Ernie Pyle's first newspaper job was on the La Porte, Ind. Herald, whence he went in 1923 to the Washington Daily News (Scripps-Howard) as a reporter, later became a deskman. By 1932, after a brief fling at Manhattan news rooms, he had become the...
But there was time to praise heroes. Many were cited for gallantry last week, and the names of their home towns-Phoebus, Va., Quenemo, Kans., La Porte, Ind., Dabolt, Ky., Rector, Ark., Star City, W.Va.-were eloquent of the U.S. at war. Among those honored were: < Two Roosevelts, father and...