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Ernest Taylor Pyle, better known to millions as Ernie, is an inconspicuous, frail, 110-lb. man of 42, homely and quiet-mannered. He looks exactly as if he came smack off an Indiana farm - which he did, some two decades ago. This week this pixyish little man, America's most widely read war correspondent, won one of the National Headliners Club's annual awards for newspaper, radio and photographic excellence. Pyle's award (one of twelve) was for "best foreign feature" reporting...
...description of the way some 75 war correspondents in North Africa live came last week from Ernie Pyle, Scripps-Howard reporter now in Tunisia. Wrote...
Remarried. Ernest Taylor ("Ernie") Pyle, 42, veteran Scripps-Howard columnist, now in North Africa and Geraldine Siebolds Pyle, 43, eleven months after their divorce (after 16 years); by proxy; in Albuquerque...
Puzzled by the "astonishing number of Axis sympathizers in North Africa," peripatetic Ernie Pyle reported to Scripps-Howard newspapers that the U.S. occupying forces were arresting only "the most out-&-out Axis agents" and allowing Fascist societies to continue operations...
While this week brought reports that General Giraud and Fighting France's General Charles de Gaulle might be able to get together, Reporter Pyle concluded: 1) the going will be "tough and probably long" before U.S. troops can move on "to bigger fronts"; 2) the French are "fundamentally behind us, but ... a strange illogical stratum is against us"; 3) "our fundamental policy still is one of soft-gloving the snakes in our midst...