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...Ernie Pyle who got him round the last big corner. On the basis of Ernie's glowing comments, Mauldin's drawings were picked up and syndicated by United Feature Syndicate. Bill Mauldin thought his wildest dreams had come true...
When Ernie Pyle died, his syndicate offered newspapers a successor: Pyle's closest friend, fellow Hoosier and ex-boss, Lee Miller, who was already in the Pacific on a news assignment (TIME, May 14). Of the 396 newspapers which had printed Pyle's column, 151 would accept no substitutes. The rest decided to give Miller a try. Probably no one had more misgivings about the substitution than Miller himself. In his first column he wrote: "Maybe I can fill the space where his copy was run, but I'm fully aware that nobody will ever fill...
...Washington editors cabled him, suggesting that he change his approach. Instead, still depressed by his friend's death and by his own inability to catch on as a columnist, Lee Miller gave up last week and came home-after one month and five days in Ernie Pyle's spot...
Robert Girvin--Julie Pyle (Middlebury, Conn...
Scripps-Howard's veteran Lee Miller liked to call himself "vice president in charge of Ernie Pyle." For more than 20 years he was Ernie's closest friend; they were fellow Indianans, fellow Washington reporters; and, as managing editor of Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance, Miller was Ernie's boss for 10 years. Last week, he took over the assignment on which his friend had died. His first columns, of the landing on Borneo, began humbly: "I'm not going to try to write like Ernie. All I can do is write like Miller...