Word: pyle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...World War II as a division commander, ended up with four armies under him. His armies delivered the final knockout to the Nazis' Afrika Korps in three weeks, knifed through Sicily in jig time and had the Germans reeling out of France in less than a month. Ernie Pyle broke his own ban against writing about Army brass to eulogize this general with the schoolmasterish manner, "so unanimously loved and respected by the men around him and under him." One of his officers summed up Bradley to Pyle: "He has the greatness of simplicity and the simplicity of greatness...
...Senate on March ninth one week after a surprise presidential order transferred control of the nine transports to the Army from the Maritime Commission which had operated the ships for student travel last summer. The ships all capable of carrying up to 900 passengers, were the Ernic Pyle, the Marine Jumper, Marine Carp, Marine Marlin, Marine Robin, and Marine Perch, as well as the three boats named above...
...part of its program, the Maritime Commission had slashed the wartime limit of 900 passengers for each ship to 600 and added recreational facilities. The nine ships are the Ernie Pyle, Marine Tiger, Marine Jumper, Marine Shark, Marine Carp. Marine Marlin, Marine Flasher, Marine Robin, and Marine Perch...
...Harold (Prince Valiant) Foster has stuck by the older and less fashionable tradition of N. C. Wyeth and Howard Pyle. The bloody adventures of his Arthurian prince are crammed with careful details, less dramatic than Caniff's, but also richer...
Invitation to Learning (Sun. 12 noon, CBS). A continued critical look at "Children's Classics," with a discussion of Howard Pyle's Robin Hood...