Word: pyle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prizewinner André Gide, looking like a Roman Senator in marble. Helen Keller was portrayed with her thinking hands upraised. Charlie Chaplin's vain, subtle face bowed in a corner. Einstein's uncombed locks stood forever snarled in bronze. John D. Rockefeller Sr. pursed withered lips. Ernie Pyle grinned shyly from a pedestal. And there was also a bust of an emaciated, fanatically intense young artist in a floppy tie, who, on close inspection, turned out to be Frank Sinatra...
...paratrooper's boots. It is held together by an elusive, improbable and unresolved love story involving a pink-haired British girl named Elaine (he called her Pinky) and interspersed with morning-after recollections of nights before spent with more-or-less real people with names like Ernie Pyle, Quentin Reynolds and Ernest. Hemingway. At worst, the text can hardly spoil the pictures-or spoil the illusion that all photographers are exasperating but fascinating eccentrics who drink, love and live intensely...
...G.I.s had played The Mikado to G.I. audiences in Tokyo's Ernie Pyle theater a year...
...Gamble. Though it has not been souped up for popular appeal, North African Waters makes fascinating reading. The narrative repeatedly slows down to take aboard tables, charts and technical details. More informal books-e.g., Ernie Pyle's Here Is Your War-give more colorful pictures of life on the Operation Torch convoys, and still others (since this is a naval history only) deal more fully with the beach fighting and the land battles. But no other book shows as clearly what a slam-bang gamble the invasion was, and how easily-and tragically-it might have gone...
...hundred of them from the American Youth Hostel, Inc. had sailed from New York in June on the Ernie Pyle. They carried plenty of food because they didn't want to be a burden. They took few clothes, because they were going over to work. They were setting out to help rebuild Europe's youth hostels, damaged...