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...Ernie Pyle, talking to a fellow newsman three months ago. Like many correspondents, and more than most, he had certainly used up chances. He had covered London in the blitz, slugged across North Africa, landed with the troops in Sicily. He had been bombed, slightly wounded and awarded the Purple Heart at Anzio. He had gone into Normandy on D + 1 and later watched in horror as Lieut. General Lesley J. McNair and other Americans were killed by their own planes at Saint...
Others could do the headquarters reporting, but his kind of copy, the artfully simple "hometown name-&-address stuff" about U.S. fighting men, compelled him to be up front. "War to an individual is hardly ever bigger than a hundred yards on each side of him," Pyle wrote. That 200 yards was his beat. In articles home to 393 daily and 297 weekly newspapers (total daily circulation: 13,390,144) Ernie Pyle covered that 200-yard view, its terrors, fatigues, laughs and heroism, more vividly and more simply than any other U.S. reporter. After 29 months of it, he wrote from...
...Pulitzer Prize, and the first Raymond Clapper Memorial Award for war correspondence. His collected G.I. columns, Here Is Your War, sold over a million copies; a second collection, Brave Men, sold 875,000. Hollywood made a movie (soon to be released) with Burgess Meredith playing Ernie Pyle. Ernie's earnings reached a half million dollars...
...civilian correspondents including Ernie Pyle, and five men each for the A.P. and U.P. (When the landing proved to be the least bloody the Marines have made, one hulking Marine sergeant wanted to wear Ernie Pyle around his neck as a good-luck charm...
...Average Man is now beloved and honored. When he is in uniform, Ernie Pyle and a host of other correspondents watch him, note his casual expressions, solicit his opinions, record his hopes and fears, marvel at his fortitude. When he is in civilian clothes, the public opinion polls eagerly tabulate his beliefs, his prejudices, his tastes. Few contemporary novels reflect this revolution in the status of the Average Man so sharply as Lower than Angels. Its hero is a character Sinclair Lewis might have drawn: Marvin Lang, son of a Staten Island delicatessen merchant. The story records his progress...