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...From Hollywood: I had a long talk last night with Chris Cunningham of the United Press, who was with Ernie in Eng land and North Africa. He is here advising the United Artists studios on the production of a movie based on Pyle's book, Here Is Your War. He says that the studio is sticking fully to Ernie's stipulation that the picture must be dedicated to the infantry and tell a true story of the G.I.s. But the movie will be full of Ernie. And it will stress his frailties throughout. It will admit his fear...
...Ernie Pyle's first invasion dispatch, which reached the U.S. four days late, was written aboard a landing craft en route to France. In it he described newsmen's pre-invasion sensations with his usual disarming frankness...
Some of the people Ernie Pyle grew up with dropped in there last week to talk about Ernie. They found the News's 31-year-old Owner-Editor Luther B. Mathes telling how he had suggested a Pyle column for weeklies, how his idea has finally been taken up. The column was costing Editor Mathes about $1 a week, but he could reckon it a dollar well spent as he listened to his neighbors...
...Visitors. Outside Dana, in a farm home behind a long lawn, lives Ernie's father, William Clyde Pyle. He is 76, partly deaf, on the mend after a hip-fracturing fall. With him lives Ernie's 78-year-old Aunt Mary Bales, sister of his late mother. Editor Mathes looked in last week to see what they thought of the weekly column. Father Pyle's verdict: "Fine, I reckon the visitors can clip it." He referred to the fact that motorists are always dropping in to say how they enjoy Ernest (he is never "Ernie...
...Almost Everybody. Western Newspaper Union (it has some 10,000 small-newspaper customers) bought the weekly Pyle syndicate rights from Scripps-Howard's United Feature Syndicate. W.N.U., limited to territories where there is no conflict with Pyle-carrying dailies, expects that Pyle will soon be printed by at least 2,000 U.S. weeklies. That would add about 4,000,000 circulation to Ernie's daily count...