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With the caution of a baby-show judge, Correspondent Ernie Pyle radioed from Africa that he has found a couple of faults in the Army's favorite vehicle: the jeep...
...most substantial approvals of Pyle came from the Youngstown Vindicator, which used his column this spring when Columnist Westbrook Pegler was on vacation. When Pegler returned, the Vindicator kept Pyle...
Writing and Restlessness. Ernie Pyle's first newspaper job was on the La Porte, Ind. Herald, whence he went in 1923 to the Washington Daily News (Scripps-Howard) as a reporter, later became a deskman. By 1932, after a brief fling at Manhattan news rooms, he had become the Washington Daily News's managing editor. Unhappy, in 1935 he asked for a roving assignment...
...Pyle has been a roving reporter ever since, prowling around the U.S., Canada, Alaska, South and Central America by train, ship, plane, horseback but mostly by auto, and writing chatty, personalized copy, always digging out the ignored and ignoring the obvious...
...first hints of the fame that was ahead for Pyle came in 1940, when he went to England to write about the wartime doings of people there. His dispatches about the great fire-bombing of London in December 1940 were milestones of graphic journalism, later were published in book form (Ernie Pyle in England). Pyle returned to the U.S. in 1941, prowled around the country some more, finally booked Clipper passage for Hawaii. At the last minute his booking was canceled to make room for some China-bound propellers. While Pyle cooled his heels in San Francisco, his Clipper reached...