Word: pyle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ernest Taylor ("Ernie") Pyle, warm-worded war correspondent, learned that he had been given partial credit for improving U.S. mechanized equipment. From Africa, to the jeep's makers (Willys-Overland), Pyle had written: "The jeep is a divine instrument of wartime locomotion [but the present hand brake] is perfectly useless." Last week Willys-Overland wrote to tell him that they had substituted a good, new internal-expansion brake for the bad, old external-contraction type...
Ernest Taylor ("Ernie") Pyle, famed war correspondent now in Italy, gave careful directions of how to act Ernie Pyle in the cinema's forthcoming version of his book Here Is Your War: "[The actor] must weigh in the neighborhood of 112 pounds and look anemic. He must not be glamorized nor have any love interest in the picture. He must write on a typewriter and absolutely never be shown with a pencil or notebook...
...Washington Representative Samuel Weiss pressed for hearings on his "Ernie Pyle bill." Correspondent Ernie Pyle, noting that flyers are paid 50% above base pay, had written a column suggesting that foot soldiers be paid extra for combat. Whether or not it was a wise or practical idea,* it was typical of growing appreciation for the infantry...
...Ernie Pyle, top G.I. war correspondent, called Sergeant Bill Mauldin the best cartoonist of the war. His drawings, thought Pyle, often went beyond comedy, were "terribly grim and real . . . about the men who are ... doing the dying." That was enough for smart George A. Carlin, boss of United Feature Syndicate. In a fortnight 22-year-old Sergeant Mauldin's unshaven, unsmiling infantryman "G.I. Joe" and his hard-faced pals will become syndicated newspaper characters. This week Carlin reported that 42 papers had signed...
Columnist Fisher is warm in praise of warm-hearted Ernie Pyle (TIME, May 31) and the late Raymond Clapper (TIME...