Word: pyle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dwight Floyd Pyle, seaman, second class, Bainbridge...
Scripps-Howard's Columnist Eleanor Roosevelt once last week led off her Day with a few words of praise for another Scripps-Howard writer. Said she: "I don't know whether any of you are reading about Ernie Pyle's trip to England with as much interest as I am, but I have read everything since he left...
Until last week Ernie Pyle, an inconspicuous little man, with thinning reddish lair and a shy, pixy face, was not celebrated as a straight news reporter. Once, for a few years, he was managing editor of he Washington News against his better judgment, distinguished himself by putting the arrest of Hauptmann, kidnapper of the Lindbergh baby, at the bottom of page 1. But five years ago Ernie left Washington, went to New Mexico for a rest. He sent some informal stories to the News about things and people around him, soon got a roving commission from Scripps-Howard to write...
...Ernie Pyle went to London to cover World War II as a tourist, to write about it as he used to write about the summer wind that blows across the prairies, about folks in Guayaquil, El Paso, Kalamazoo. He had been there just four days last week when Nazi bombers turned the city into a lake of fire-and overnight turned Tourist Pyle into a war correspondent...
From a hotel room high above Britain's blazing capital, Ernie Pyle last week sent one of the most vivid, sorrowful dispatches of the war. "Some day," he wrote, "when peace has returned to this odd world, I want to come to London again . . . and look down upon the peaceful silver curve of the Thames with its dark bridges. And ... I want to tell somebody who has never seen it how London looked on a certain night in the holiday season of the year...