Word: pyle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ernie Pyle announced that he was coming home from the battlefields of France. Said he: "I've been 29 months overseas . . . nearly a year in the front lines. . . . My spirit is wobbly and my mind is confused. . . . All of a sudden it seemed to me that if I heard one more shot or saw one more dead man, I would go off my nut." Frail, brave Columnist Pyle added that, as soon as he is rested up, he hopes to push off for the Pacific...
...shrapnel-scarred 2 rue des Italiens, United Pressmen Henry T. Gorrell, Richard D. McMillan and Ernie Pyle found the Germans had stolen the mahogany desks. But a U.P. employe had hidden the typewriters in his home...
Wrote Ernie Pyle from France...
Sirs: When it comes to writing, Ernie Pyle has nothing on the person who wrote "Ernie Pyle's War" [TIME, July 17]. That was plenty good! OTELIA C. CONNOR Durham...
...amusement, and is gifted with a sardonic manner which is most effective when directed at waiters who neglect to have his food prepared without butter or his bacon fried to a sufficient crispness. He is also an accomplished journalist, and has been called the rich man's Ernie Pyle. Long a TIME writer, principally of Sport and Cinema, he is now a LIFE editor and war correspondent. Last week he published his second book exactly 22 days after the appearance of his first...