Word: pyle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tastes in past and present art are entirely what his work would lead one to expect. He venerates Rembrandt and Breughel. He feels the normal awe for Michelangelo, but explains, "Michelangelo is not my star. If I could own an original, I'd rather own a fine Howard Pyle." Among his favorite contemporaries are Thomas Benton, John Steuart Curry, the late Grant Wood. He says "you can learn a tremendous lot from the abstractionists and so forth." But he adds that his own feeling for art is remote from the modernists'-"I like to please people and they...
With the caution of a baby-show judge, Correspondent Ernie Pyle radioed from Africa that he has found a couple of faults in the Army's favorite vehicle: the jeep...
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 Washington Daily News's managing editor. Unhappy, in 1935 he asked for a roving assignment...
...Pyle has been a roving reporter ever since, prowling around the U.S., Canada, Alaska, South and Central America by train, ship, plane, horseback but mostly by auto, and writing chatty, personalized copy, always digging out the ignored and ignoring the obvious...
...first hints of the fame that was ahead for Pyle came in 1940, when he went to England to write about the wartime doings of people there. His dispatches about the great fire-bombing of London in December 1940 were milestones of graphic journalism, later were published in book form (Ernie Pyle in England). Pyle returned to the U.S. in 1941, prowled around the country some more, finally booked Clipper passage for Hawaii. At the last minute his booking was canceled to make room for some China-bound propellers. While Pyle cooled his heels in San Francisco, his Clipper reached...