Word: pyle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before the war made him famous, the late Ernie Pyle roamed the U.S. grinding out daily columns that were part travelogue, part a oneman Gallup poll, part homely philosophizing. Last week another short, shy newsman was making a career out of the same kind of dream assignment. Jack Dadswell's column, "Roving with Dadswell," only six months old, now appears in 40 little newspapers from Maine to Florida...
...difference between Pyle and Dadswell is that Pyle worked for Scripps-Howard, whose 19 dailies frequently left out Pyle's pleasant prewar aimlessness. Columnist Dadswell, who is 51, is his own boss, as four syndicates who tried to sign him have discovered. He beats up his own material singlehanded, types it at 3 a.m. (he sleeps till noon), edits it at the nearest coffee shop ("the restaurants of the country are my workshops"), sells it, mimeographs and distributes it to his newspaper clients. He goes where he pleases, mostly in his own car, writes whatever his common-denominator instinct...
...whim takes him, Dadswell goes to sea, works in the black gang or deck crew, returns with human-interest yarns that set him solid with his plain-folks readers. He has none of the synthetic open-eyed wonder of the late O. 0. Mclntyre, or the troubled sympathy of Pyle. Says Dadswell: "I always have a specific story in mind when I make a trip. Soon I am going to Cuba to find out if Sloppy Joe's is really sloppy and if a guy named Joe really runs...
...served ten months as a gunnery officer on Atlantic and Mediterranean convoys. Later, in the Solomons, he nearly lost an arm when his jeep overturned. When he recovered he got a job as press censor at Sydney. Scripps-Howard tried to spring him out of the Navy after Ernie Pyle died; luckily for Ruark, he stayed in, and was spared the ordeal of trying to follow in Pyle's footsteps (TIME...
Female relatives of the late Vice Admiral Howard L. Vickery, former vice chairman of the Maritime Commission, had been in special demand as bottle-smashers. Five had received $6,457.65 in shipyard gifts; Daughter Barbara's share included two diamond bracelets. Ernie Pyle's widow, for christening a ship named in her husband's honor, was handed a $25 gimmick...