Word: pyle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Story of G.I. Joe (United Artists) is an attempt to picture the infantryman's war as the late Ernie Pyle saw it. Pyle himself (played in the film by Burgess Meredith) and nine fellow correspondents supervised and vouched for the movie's hard-bitten authenticity. The result is far & away the least glamorous war picture ever made. It is a movie without a single false note. It is not "entertainment" in the usual sense, but General Eisenhower called it "the greatest war picture I've ever seen...
...Ernie Pyle who got him round the last big corner. On the basis of Ernie's glowing comments, Mauldin's drawings were picked up and syndicated by United Feature Syndicate. Bill Mauldin thought his wildest dreams had come true...
When Ernie Pyle died, his syndicate offered newspapers a successor: Pyle's closest friend, fellow Hoosier and ex-boss, Lee Miller, who was already in the Pacific on a news assignment (TIME, May 14). Of the 396 newspapers which had printed Pyle's column, 151 would accept no substitutes. The rest decided to give Miller a try. Probably no one had more misgivings about the substitution than Miller himself. In his first column he wrote: "Maybe I can fill the space where his copy was run, but I'm fully aware that nobody will ever fill...
...Washington editors cabled him, suggesting that he change his approach. Instead, still depressed by his friend's death and by his own inability to catch on as a columnist, Lee Miller gave up last week and came home-after one month and five days in Ernie Pyle's spot...
Robert Girvin--Julie Pyle (Middlebury, Conn...