Word: pyles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first issue, in 1923, with a story on the now defunct New York World. To date, TIME has run 56 cover stories on the press, profiling a varied range of figures, including Walter Lippmann (1931,1937), William R. Hearst Sr. (1927,1933,1939), Drew Pearson (1948), Ernie Pyle (1944), William F. Buckley Jr. (1967), Arthur Sulzberger (1977) and Dan Rather...
...rape in an Anderson, S.C., motel room by three men, after which the 80-lb. woman victim required four pints of blood and five days of hospitalization. The rapists had pleaded guilty in the hope that as first offenders, they would receive a lenient sentence from Judge C. Victor Pyle. "The defendants," intoned Pyle, "shall be confined to the custody of the South Carolina department of corrections for a period of 30 years." That was the maximum. The real jolt came when the judge added that he would suspend the sentence "upon the defendants' voluntary agreement to be castrated...
...file in time for the January issue, expects to sit down at the typewriter this week. This fills him with fear and loathing. What sort of article he will turn out is anybody's guess. But one thing is certain: the military should not expect an Ernie Pyle paean to its bravery in the field. "A bunch of newsmen with baseball bats," Thompson says, "could have taken this island...
...sort of a psychological thing with Harvard," says Eli stickwoman Molly Pyle. "You start to see them as the enemy." Among "the enemy" is sister Jennifer, who plays on Harvard's JV team. Jennifer was recruited by both Harvard and Yale; she could have gone to either school...
...darned housewife" when Annie Glenn refuses to see him: later he leeringly introduces fan-dancer Sally Rand; and during a film presentation with Eisenhower, Johnson sees the face of a Russian scientist and drawls. "Get that moron off of there," with the most extended moron this side of Gomer Pyle. Moffat's characterization, or rather caricature, elicits a laugh or two, but The Right Stuff's otherwise steady wit makes such heavy-handed jabs unnecessary...