Word: pyle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ernie Pyle, most widely read (11,500,000) and most endearing of U.S. war correspondents, last week made good in his own home town...
...weekly condensation of Pyle's columns went to the weekly News of Dana, Ind. (circ. 600), as to several hundred other small U.S. weeklies. Appropriately, Ernie Pyle signalized the week by a bit of gossip about his Dana neighbors...
From a tank-destroyer unit's invasion base in England, he reported a conversation with Sergeant Dick Showalter, a gun-crew commander from Muncie, Ind. Wrote Correspondent Pyle...
Some of the people Ernie Pyle grew up with dropped in there last week to talk about Ernie. They found the News's 31-year-old Owner-Editor Luther B. Mathes telling how he had suggested a Pyle column for weeklies, how his idea has finally been taken up. The column was costing Editor Mathes about $1 a week, but he could reckon it a dollar well spent as he listened to his neighbors...
...Jockey-sized Correspondent Ernie Pyle, forced to follow the same rule, reported: "I eat till I'm bulging and sick...