Word: pyle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Average Man is now beloved and honored. When he is in uniform, Ernie Pyle and a host of other correspondents watch him, note his casual expressions, solicit his opinions, record his hopes and fears, marvel at his fortitude. When he is in civilian clothes, the public opinion polls eagerly tabulate his beliefs, his prejudices, his tastes. Few contemporary novels reflect this revolution in the status of the Average Man so sharply as Lower than Angels. Its hero is a character Sinclair Lewis might have drawn: Marvin Lang, son of a Staten Island delicatessen merchant. The story records his progress...
...Ernie Pyle, on his way to report the war in the Pacific, stopped off in Hollywood, posed with his cinema self, bewigged Burgess Meredith, who plays the U.S.'s favorite war correspondent in the forthcoming film...
...Stokes signed a new contract with United Feature Syndicate, and went to the head of the columnar class in the New York World-Telegram, bellwether of the Scripps-Howard chain. Stokes's column was appearing in 63 other newspapers, plus 32 in which it was temporarily replacing Ernie Pyle...
Information. U.S. readers wanted to be informed as well as entertained. War books continued in strong demand, with such human-interest and eyewitness accounts as Ernie Pyle's Here Is Your War and Brave Men, and Robert Sherrod's Tarawa, in the lead...
...books from the fighting fronts appeared steadily; they were generally competent, rarely outstanding. Among the favorites after Ernie Pyle's homespun anthologies; Jack Belden's frank, often bitter Still Time to Die; Target: Germany, the admirable, official story of the Eighth U.S.A.A.F. ; Captain Herbert L. Merillat's detailed report of the battle for Guadalcanal, The Island; Charles Wertenbaker's Invasion! For warmly personal reasons, Mina Curtiss' Letters Home, 254 samples of the billions of letters that U.S. service men have written home since they went to war, became a public favorite...