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AUTHOR Letterman, GretchenTITLE Here Is Our Ernie Pyle.PUB DATE Aug 74IOU 44p.; Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the

Association for Education in Journalism (57th, SanDiego, California, August 18-21, 1974); Some pageshave marginal reproducibility

PDRS PRICE MF-S0.75 HC-$1.85 PLUS POSTAGEDESCRIPTORS *Biographies; Higher Education; *Journalism;

*Newspapers; *News Reporting; *United States History;Writing

IDENTIFIERS *Pyle (Ernie)

L9eTRACTThis document contains a biographical sketch of Ernie

Pyle, the Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist from Indiana who gainedfame during World War II as a nationally syndicated correspondent forthe Associated Press. The story of Pyle's life is traced from hisbirth in Dana, Indiana, through his college years and his early yearsas a rowing reporter for the "Washington Daily News," and concludeswith his experiences as a war correspondent and his death vilecovering an invasion in the Pacific. (The original presentation ofthis sketch ir.:luded a slide show compiled from pictures taken by theauthor and from a collection of pictures at Indiana University.)(RB)

4TITLE' HERE IS OUR ERNIE PYLE

DATE: August 18, 1974

GRETCHEN LerreRmAN

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4/ ERNIE PYLE--FAMED HOOSIER CORRESPONDENT OF WO=

WAR II, MEMBERED MOST FOR "HIS SYMPATHETIC POTITRAYAL

OF THE MATTER -OF -FACT HEROISM OF THE COMMON hAN CAUGHT

UP IN A SAVAGE WAR"--1

POSSESSED MUCH MORE THAN A

TALENT FOR RECORDING THE BLOOD AND GUTS OF BATTLE. A

PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING JOURNALIST, PILE USED HIS

INNATE SENSE OF CONCERN FOR THE COMMON PEOPLE NOT ONLY

IN WAR BUT IN PEACE AS WELL. PYLE'S WELLOW WAR

CORRESPONDENT NOLAND NORGAARD OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SAYS* "WE MUST ALSO REMEMBER THAT PYLE WAS LA TRAINED

NEWSMAN, INTOLERANT OF POM POSITY AND Sr.M"2

LONG

BEFORE HE BECAME A FAA OUS WAR CORRESPONDENT,. PYLE

SHOWED THIS SAME CONTEMPT FOR POMPOSITY AND SHAM AS

HE TRAVELED ACROSS THE CONTINENT WRITING HIS AMERICANA

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COLUMNS. HIS HWANE CAPACITY TO DEPICT THE SMALL

THINGS OF LIFE IN AND OUT OF WAR IS A QUALITY OFTEN

OVERLOOKED IN JOURNALISM TODAY. PYLE RETORTED THE

STORIES THAT WOULDN'T WRITE THEMSELVES -- STORIES ABOUT

EVERYLAY EVENTS AND EVERYDAY PEOPLE RATHER THAN THE

CHAOTIC AND BIZARRE HAPPENINGS THAT DOMINATE MOST

FRONT PAGES. THIS DOCUMENTARYTHROUGH BIOGRAPHICAL

NARRATION, BOOKS AND LETTERS, AND MOST HUMANLY THROUGH

TAPED INTERVIEWS WITH HIS FRIEgDS AND COLLEAGUES--

SHOWS WHY ERNIE PYLE WILL REMAIN FANOUS NOT ONLY FOR

HIS JOURNALISM BUT FOR HIS HUMANISM AS WELL.

THE LIFE OF ERNEST TAYLOR PYLE BEGAN ON AUGUST 3,

1900, IN THE SMALL TOWN OF DANA, INDIANA, WHICH LIES

ON THE FLAT, ALMOST PRAIRIE LAND DEAR THE ILLINOIS

BORDER. BROUGHT INTO A RURAL COUNTRY AND QUIET LIFE

BY HIS PARENTS, WILLIAM C. AND MARIA TAYLOR PYLE, HE

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SEEMED TO HAVE THE AESTHETIC APPREOIATION WHICH LATER

SC CHARACTERIZED HIS WRITING. t4RS. HAROLD RUSSELL, A

CHILDHOOD NEIGHBOR ,REMEMBERS MOLEST AS BEING QUITE AN

ARTIST. "hIS BEDROOM WALL; WERE COVERED WITH HIS

COMIC STRIPS. I THOUGHT HE WOULD BECOME A GREAT ARTIST

INSTEAD OF STUDY= JOURNALISM AT INDIANA UNIVERSITY, "'

SHE RECOLLECTS. IN THE WORDS OF MRS DOROTHY ELDER OF

DANA, WHO DONATED PYLES BIRTHPLACE TO THE STATE OF

NDIANA AND THE PEOPLE; OF DANA, IT IS PROBABLE THAT

ERNIE GOT HIS FIRST IDEAS OF WRITING ABOUT THE LITTLE

THINGS AND ORDINARY PEOPLE WITH SUCH PERFECT DESCRIPTION

FRol LIVING IN THE SMALL TOWN OF DANA.

(rn. ELDER)

HE LIKED TO SIT THERE AND LISTEN TO THE GENTLEMEN

TELL TALES OF WHAT USED TO HAPPEN AROUND DANA. HE' D

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RATHER DO THAT THAN GO TO THE SHOW.

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PYLE, WHOSg SENSE OF IMAGERY POSSINA CAN BE

TRACED TO HIS SMALL-TOWN ORIGIN IN INDIAnt WAS A BIT

SKEPTICAL ABOUT THE INFLUENCE HAD HIM, IN A

COLUMN WRT1TEN LATER IN HIS CAREER, ON A NOSTALGIC

RETURN TRIP TO DANA, HE CONVEYS IN SIMPLE WORDS HOW HE

FELT ABOUT HIS HOMETOWN.

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"PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN AROUND SAY DANA IS A MEDIUM-

GOOD TOWN. I REALLY DON'T KNOW WHETHER IT IS OR NOT.

I NEVER FELT COMPLETELY AT SASE Th DANA. I SUPPOSE

IT WAS AN INFERIORITY HANGOVER FROM CHILDHOODS I WAS

A FARM BOY, AND TOWN KIDS CAN MAKE YOU FEEL AWFULLY

BACKWARD WHEN YOU'RE YOUNG AND A FARM BOY. I NEVER

GOT OVER IT. I SHOULD HAVE, OF COURSE, BECAUSE ALL

THAT WAS LONG AGO, AND THE PEOPLE I SAW ON THE STREET

WERE PEOPLE I'D KNOWN ALL MY LIFE, AND MANY OF THEM

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WERE OUR FARh FRIENDS WHO HAD MOVED TO TOWN IN THEIR

DECLINING YEARS. BUT JUST THE SAME,.I FELT SELF -

CONSCIOUS WHENEVER I WALKED DOWN THE STREET IN DANA,

IMAGINING THE TOWN BOYS WERE MAKING FUN OF MR."5'

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EVEN THOUGH DANA MADE HI:1 SELFCONSCIOUS, THE

SMALL TOWN AND SURROUNDIWG IFIDIANA COUNTRYSIDE BECAME

THE INSPIRATION FOR MANY OF HIS COLUTINS. IN ONE

DISPATCH WRITTE WHILE HE WAS ROVING THE UNITED STATES

IN THE THIRTIES, PYLE JOKES ABOUT THE PROPENSITY OF

ALL TOM 113 TO Mt= .11 BURIALS TO TliaUR LOCAL HERO.

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"PRACTICALLY EVERY 50 MILES FROM KANSAS TO OHIO

YOU PASS THROUGH A TOWN WHERE SODS REMARKABLE FIGURE

WAS BORN OR SPENT HIS EARLY DAYS: JESSE JAMES, J. C.

PERM, GENERAL JOHN J. PERSHING, MARK TWAIN, ABRAHAM

LINCOLN AND E. TROCAMERO PYLE. AT THE CROSSROADS WHERE

HIGHWLY 36 CUTS PAST DANA, THERE MI3RT BE A LARGE MARKER

SAYING: 'THREE NILES SOUTH IS THE HOUSE IN WHICH E. PYLE,

4MRMPIMONMIINNO.MMI1.00.1.1.2wOOMIONIMMMillil..MINM

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INDIANA'S GREAT SKUNK-TRAPPER, JELLY-EATER, HORSE-

HATER AND SAAKE-AFRAIDEA-OF, WAS BORN. IN HIS LATER

YEARS MI. PYIJ ROSE TO A STATE OF ATIONAL YEDIOCRITY

AS A LETTER WRITER, A STAYER IN HOTELS, A TALKER TO

OBSCURE PEOPLE, AND A DRIVER FROM TOWN TO TOWN. THE

OLD mum IS IN A STATE OF PRESERVATION, ALTHOUGH THE

SAME CANNOT BE SAID FOR liE. PYLE. HISTORIANS SAY HE

HAS BEEN FALLING TO PII2CES FOR YEARS. '"6

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TODAY A MEMORIAL MARKER STANDS IN A REST PARK ON

HIGHWAY 36 NEAR DAMA,BUT THE MESSAGE READS DIFFERENTLY

THAN PYLE PROJECTED IN HIS COLUMN. A REPLICA OF THE

ACTUAL METIORIAL MARKER AT HIS DEATH SIDE ON A TINY

PACIFIC ISLAND, AND A COli1' ltiORAT/V1.; PLAQUE NAMING HIM

"Ale,RICA'S GREATEST AND BEST LOVED" OF WRITERS AND WAR

CORRWONDENTS ADD ERNIE PILE'S NAME TO THE LIST OF

"REMARKABLE FIWRES" HE MWTIONS IN HIS COLUMN. PYLE

GOT THE MEMORIAL HE KIDDED ABOUT, FOR THE FOLKS AROUND

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13. Slides Dana, Home ofErnie Pyle

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, DANA ARE PROUD THAT SUCH A MOUS AND LOVED PERSON WAS

A PRODUCT OF THEIR TOW?'.

PYLE LIZT DANA AFTER BEING GRADUATED FROfT HIGH

SCHOOL IN 1918, AND JOINED THE NAVY. SE&4T TO THE

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOId FOR PRELIMINARY TRAINING, HL WAS

SOON PLACED Oh INACTIVE DUTY BY THE SIGVING OF THE

ARUISTICE.

IN 1919, ERNIE ENTERED INDIANA UNIVERSITY. JOHN

STEilPEL, FORMER JOURNALIST DEPARTMENT HEAD AT I.U. AND

FRTE1-DLY CLASSMATE COMPETITOR OF ERNIE TALKS ABOUT THE

RunoR THAT ERNIE MAJORED IN JOURNALISM BECAUSE TT WAS

EASY.

(JOHN STEliPEL)

THAT STORY HAS GON2 AROUND THAT HE ELECTED TO MAJOR

IN JOURNALISM BECAUSE SOPLEBODY HAD TOLD HIM TT WAS

EASIER THAL ANYTHLiG ELSE. WELL THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER

IS, THAT AT THAT TIME YOU COULDN'T MAJOR IN JOURNALISM..

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HE CHOSE Ecovotacs, AND HE HAD A VERY SOLID HIGH B

RECORD.7

(FIRST NARRATOR)

THOUGH A 'MAJOR IN JOURNALIS,17 WAS NOT POSSIBLE,

ER4DI GOT PLENTY OF JOURNALISTIC EXPERIENCE IN ELECTED

COU AND AS REPORTER, NEWS EDITOR, AND 1922 SUMMER-

TERN EDITOR -IN -CHIEF OF= INDIANA DAILY STUDENT.8

WILLIAM A. EVAtIt'il AN EDITOR ON Tit A.MANA DAILY sTurENT

WITH ERNIE, WALLS HIr AS A MAN FIT FOR A REPORTER'S

JOB.

(WILLIAM EVANS)

Tit= TS AN OLD NEWSPAPER SAYING THAT THE COOLEST

A44 ON THE HOTTEST JOB MAKES THE FhaTIEST TIME, AND I

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ow.....=Molm?John Stempel, interviewed by Gretchen Letterman,

Bloorington, Indiana Nov. 16, 1973,

8Lee G. Miller, AgLitmjabliAlpum (New York,William sloans Associates, Inc., 1946) , p. 15.

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IT WAS WHILE HE WORKED IN A "HOTTEST" JOB ON THE

NEWSPAPER THAT A HINT OF HIS DESIRE TO TRAVEL AND WRITE

BECAME EVIDENT. WHEN TqE INDIANA UNIVERSITY BASEBALL

TEAL WAS INVITED TO JAPAN IN 1922, HE AND THREE SIGMA

ALPHA EPSILON FRATERNITY BROTHERS WORKED THEIR WAY

ACROSS THE PACIFIC AS BELLBOYS ON THE LINER KEYSTONE

STATE TO FOLLOW THE TEAM. WHILE ON THIS TRIP ERNIE

MI= AN ARTICLE TO zapAikY =am SIGNED "ERNEST

T. PYLE, '23," WHICH WAS HIS FIRST BYLINE.

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ERNIE ALSO WORKED FOR THE ARBUTUS, INDIANA

UNIVERSITY'S YEARBOOK, AS A JUNIOR EDITOR. IN THE

1923 VOLUME HE WAS THE FIRST OF TEN MEN sumo OUT

TO BE CARICATURED. THE Vasa UNDER THE SKETCH OF HIM

HOLDING DA ;PDIANA DAILY Zinn WITH A LITTLE

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THIS BRILLIANT GEM WHICH BLUSHED UNSEEN IN DANA,

LONG SINCE GLOBE TROTTER, STUDENT ED., AEON AND

WHO KNOWS WHAT,

STILL WEARS THE SAME OLD HAT, IS STILL THE SAME GOOD

FELLOW ,

LO THIS IAN S NAM HEADS ALL THE LOT . "

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AFTER HIS SPORTS-REPORTING ADVENTURE IN JAPAN,

ERNIE WAS QUITE THE CELEBRITY ON CMPUS . BUT IN HIS

SENIOR YEAR, PYLE S "BIG MAN" POSITION GAVE WAY TO

CRUSHED FEELINGS WHEN THE GIRL HE LOVED PASSED HIM BY

FOR Xi OTHER MAN. DISILLUSIONED, HE INQUIRED Amur A

POSITION OFFERED BY THE LAPORTE, INDIANA HFISALD, AND

WITH THE APPROVAL OF DEAN EDNON'DSON, ACCEPTED THE JOB,

LEAVII4 BLOM 1NGTON WITHOUT GRADUATING, AND WITH NO

IaTENTIOil OF SETTING FOOT OLZ TIE INDIANA CAMPUS AGAIN.12

1 piaglug(Bloosington, Indiana, Indiana.University, 1 3.

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PYLE'S FIRST BOSSES ON THE HERALD, RAY SMITH AND

CHARLES BEAL, SAW HIM AS "BASHFUL MD UNIMPRESSIVENOT

LIKE A NEWSPAPER ;AN AT ALL." THEIR ATT1T ND+. CHANGED,

HOWEVER, WHEN HE TURvED ;MT L,TOTIILS A3OUT TIM COURTHOUSE,

THE POLICE STATION, AND CITY HALL THAT MADE PEOPLE LIKE

HIM IM EDIATELY.13

WHEN INVITED IN 1923 WITi A RAISE IN PAY TO BE

R1TORTER FOR THE V/AVIITITOri DAILY PYLE LE `r HIS

SIIALL TOWN POSITIOi; FOR ONE IN A TRADITIONAL NEWS-

PAPERMAN'S HAVEN IN THE NATION'S CAPITOL.14

AT FIRST

ERNIE WAS ONLY A RETORTER, Buff THEN HE MOVED TO THE

POSITION OF COPY READER, A JOB THAT PINKED HIM TO HIS

DESK.

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HANDLING, PYLE GAVE WAY, (ONE OF THE iANY TIMES HE DID

SO) , TO HIS URGE FOR TRAVEL. IN 1926, AFTER QUITTING

HIS JOB, PYLE AND HIS WIFE JERRY, WHOM HE HAD MARRIED

A YEAR BEFORE, SET OUT TO "DRIVE AROUND THE RIE OF THE

ULITED STATES. "15 FIRST TOURING THE COUNTRY, THEY

STOPPED iEW YORK TEN WEEKS LATER, !MERE HE TRIED

JOBS AT BOTH THE NEW YAK EVCNING WORLD, A14D THEN THE

NEW 0 C pOST. MEANWHILE, THE WASHINGTON Dana Nag,

BADLY MEDED A TELEGRAPH EDITOR AND LEE MILLER, TIM

THE I:ANAGING EDITOR, SUGGESTED PYLE. ACCEPTING THE

t..11 011Y IF MILLER WAS TO BE RETAINED AS MANAGING

EDITOR, PYLE RETURNED TO WASHINGTON.

WHILE IN THAT POSITION, PYLE TOOK UP AY AVIATION

COLUNI ON Ti Z SIDE. BECAUSE HE WA6 HARRIED BY THE

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GIVEN PERMISSION TO TAKE ON THE COLUMN FULL TIME. IN

1932 HE WAS PRONOTEDTO MANAGING EDITOR. WNEN TALKING

ABOUT PYLM TI? AS liANAGING EDITOR, JACK HOWARD, NOW

PRESIDENT or THE SCRIPPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPER CHAIN, TO

WHICH THE WASHINGTOfl DAILY NEWS BELONGS, REMEMBERS AN

INCIDENT THAT INDICATED PYLE WAS NOT CUT OUT FOR

MANAGING, BUT FOR WRITING. WHEIT THE LINDBERG BABY

KIDNAPPING STORY CArE OUT, la HOWARD RECOLLECTS, ERNIE

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PYLE REALIZED HIVS6LF THAT HE WAS

UNHAPPY IN THE POSITION OF AVAGER. HE WROTE TO A

CO E FRIEND, GENE UEBELHARDT, "I AN STILL MANAGING

EDITOR, BUT IT IS NOT A JOB THAT I LIKE. IT IS HARD

AND FATIGUING WORK', AN) I GET NO CTIAYCE TO DO ANY URITIFG,

I THThK THAT IS WHERE NY GREATEST SATISFACTION LIES -.

IN WRITING - IN EXPRESSING MY FEELINGS IN PRINT, AND I

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'3, Slides Ernie and Jerryready to travel

DON'T GET A CHANCE TO DO IT VOW. MAYBE THINGS WILL

CHANGE LATER."17

WHILE ON a VACATION TO RECUPERATE FROM ONE OF HIS

FRAIL BODY'S MANY BOUTS WITH THE FLU, PYLE WROTE COLUMNS

ABOUT HIS TRAMS WITH JERRY TO FIND THE NICE WARM

SPOT THE DOCTOR PRESCRIBED.18 ONCE HE RESUMED HIS JOB,

PYLE TURNED IN 11 TRAVEL COLUS WHICH WERE INSTAar

HITS. FOUR PONTHS LATER, STILL LOT CONTENTED WITH THE

MALAGERIAL POSITION, HE PROPOSED A ROVING ASSIGNMENT.

WITH INSTRUCTIONS FROM SCRIPPS-HOWARD TO "DRIVE.

WHEREVER HE LIKED, WRITE SIX COLUMNS A Dmi ABOUT

ANYTHING THAT INTERESTED HIN, AND MAIL THEM TO

WASHINGTON FOR DISTRIBUTION TO THE TWO DOZEN SCRIPPS-

HOWARD NEWSPAPERS," PYLE WAS OFF FULFILLING HIS DREAM.

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"I WILL GO WHEREVER I PLEASE AND WRITE WHAT I PLEASE.

IT'S JUST THi; KxrD OF JOB I'VE ALWAYS WANTED AID I

HOPE I CAN MAKE A GO OF IT." HE WROTE A FRIEND.19

ERNIE WAS WOW WRITIAG FOR AUDIENCES OF ABOUT 70

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DAILIES AND RECEIVING GREAT PUBLICITY. NATT MEYER, NOW

PRESIDVNT OF THE SCRIPPS-HOWARD FOULTATION, WHO WAS

ADVERTISING DIRECTOR OF THE wAmixecTox anx YEWS

UHILE MUM PYLE WORKED THERE, TELLS ABOUT ERNIE AT

THAT TI10.

(men MEYER)

AND THE STAR, REALLY THE STAR OF THE PAPER FROM A

WRIT/140 STANDPOINT WAS ERNIE PYLE. HE AT THAT nut

WAS THE ROVING REPORTER: SParDING A GREAT DEAL OF HIS

THE AWAY FROM THE PAPER, AND sPErDriz A GREAT DEAL OF

IT ON BUSES BETWEEN HERE AITD THE WEST COAST, OR WHEREVER

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HE WANTED TO CO.

AS THE ADVERTISING DIRECTOR, I PICKED UP THE IDEA

THAT THE BEST SALE I COULD MAKE WAS AROUND ERNIE PYLE

AS A MATTER OF FACT, BECAUSE EVERYBODY IN TOWN READ

21HIM AND EVERYBODY KNEW HIM.

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EVEN THOUGH HE WAS THE STAR OF THE PAPER, PYLE

V.EVER SHOWED ANY SELF REIGHTEOUSII 2,f3S IN HIS WRITING. HIS

FIRST CONCERN WAS TO SEEK OUT THE COQ: iON PEOPLE AND

ORDINARY THINGS THAT OTHER REPORTERS PASSED UP AS

UNIMPORTANT AND PORTRAY THEti TO HIS I IN' WITH A

HUNAN INSIGHT FOR DETAILS. WESTBROOK PEGLER, FELLOW

COLUMNIST WROTE: "ERNIE PYLE WRITES HTS WAY ALONG,

KEEPS OUT OF NEW YORK AND OTHER BIG CITIES THAT ARE

OVERCOVERED BY OTHER REPORTERS AND WRITERS, KNOWS MORE

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21.tett Ileyer, interviewed by Gretchen Letterman

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siALL-TOWN AND DIRT-ROAD AMERICANS THAN JIM FARLEY,

AND IS BETTER INFORMED ON THE CONDITION - OR ANYWAY

THE FEELING - OF THE SMALL PEOPLE THAN S. ROOSEVELT

HERSELF."22 PYLE TOOIC ON HIS OWN STYLE OF WRITING, AND

IiI SIiiPLE WORDS VIARLY ATTRACTED HIS READERS.

RALPH HOLSINGER, JOURNALISN PROFESSOR AT INDIANA

UNIVERSITY, ANALYZES SOiE OF TIM ELEMENTS OF PYLE'S

WRITIIKI STYLE AND POINTS our HON IT ENDOWED HIS

JOURNALISM UITH ENDURING QUALITIES THAT MAKE HIS

WRITING VALID EVEN TODAY.

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31 Slides Ralph Holsinger WELL, I SUPPOSE WITH HIM IT WAS A HATTER OF STAYING

WITH IT LONG ENOUGH TO CET TO THE POINT WHERE HIS SIMPLE,

DIRECT SIMITENC2S N Or. D A TEXTURE OF WANING THAT

impr THEN FROii r ONOTONOUS. THIS ONLY CANE THROUGH

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JUST VERY CLOSE ATTRITION TO DETAIL. NOT LONG AGO THE

,pRon COqi4TY DEFOP_RAT REPRINTED STORIES HE wRarE IN

1940 ABOUT HIS TRIPS TO BROWN COMITY, AND HE DIDN'T MISS

A DETAIL OF LIFE OVER THERE. I KNOW; I LIVE THERE NOW,

AND HE TOLD IT LIKE I KNOW Tr.23

(FIRST NARRATOR)

HERE IN ONE OF THOSE BROWN COUNTY ARTICLES, PYLE'S

=AILED SIDTLICITY PERFECTLY CAPTURES THE SMALL TOWN

OF NASHVILLE.

(SECOND gARRATOR)

"BROWN COUNTY WAS NOT THE SAIL E AS IT WAS WREN THE

ARTISTS DISCOVERED IT. THE ARTISTS NO LONGER CONSIDERED

IT PICTURESQUE. THEY SAID IT WAS "SPOILED." THEY

WOULD HAVE GONE AWAY, EXCEPT THAT THEY SAID IT WAS

BETTER THAN ANYWHERE ELSE. FINE ROADS AND HOTELS HAD

IMPINGED UPON THE HILLS AND VILLAGES. IKE PATCH FARM

00 LIVED UP THE HOLLER WAS NEARLY PUSHED OFF THE

SIDEWALK BY GANIX,RS FROM THE CITY. THERE WAS LITTLE

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PRIVACY LEFT. AND YET THE 'NW PINEE ATTRIBUTES OF THE

PEOPLE ENDURED. THE NATIVE OF BROWN COUNTY .OAS

INNATELY COURTEOUS. HE WOULD DO ANYTHIJG FOR YOU AND

rOT THINK OF PAY., HIS HONESTY WAS ALMOST OLD FASHIONED.

FEW PEOPLE IN BROWN COUNTY LOCKED THEIR HOUSES, AND

WHEN THEY DID THEY HUNG THE KEY ON A NAIL =ADE THE

DOOR. THEY WORKED IN A WAY THAT WOULD PARALYZE AN

ASSEMBLY LIVE, YET THEIR WORK COT DONE AND FRIENDS

TOLD THERE Wk. SOIOTHVG FUNDAMENTAL IN THE BROWN

COUNTY AIR THAT COMPELLED AN HONEST DAY'S WORK FOR Ali

HONEST DAY'S PAY. THE TYPICAL BROWN COUNTY MAN PLAYED

A GUITAII, AND SANG IN HARMOrY, AND LOVED TO SQUARE

DANCE, AND DIDN'T GET LOST IN THE WOODS, AND NWT TO

CHURCH AND DRANK WHISIUY. ...SOMETIMES HE WAS PROSPEROUS

AND SOH TIMES HE DIDN'T MOUNT TO A DAMN - BUT IT

DIDN'T MATTER WHETHER HE LIVED 20 MILES UP THE CRICK

IN A CLAPBOARD CABIN OR WORKED IN THE GARAGE DOWNTOWN

AND WORE A DERBY HAT, STILL HIS CODE OF GAIETY AND OF

HONESTY AND HIS IRATE SENSE OF DIGNITY REMAINED THE

24SAE."

(FIRST MRRATOR)

FROA BROWN COUNTY TO ALASKA, CROSSING THE MUTED

24Pyle, Eqps gou4rv, P. 455

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P-410 in old Mercedes,taken 1937

STATES 35 TIAES, ERNE PYLE WROTE ABOUT ?4YRIAD TOPICS,

FRCh. MAPPED PLACES IN THE COUNTRY, TO ONE-HANDED

CIGARETTE HOLLERS, TO GETTING STRANDED IN A PAIR OF

FAi:TS WITH A ZIPPER THAT WOULDI T UrIZIP. JACK HOWARD,

WHO WORIXD OF. THE WASHIDC,TON DAILY, NEWS WITH PYLE,

RECALLS WHY ERNIE'S Ai ERICANA COLUVNS WERE SO POPULAR.

(JACK HOWARD)

ALL Or atn 30 11U Ai. YOU .:".1.01.1, THINGS

THAT HAVE HAPPENED TO EVERYBODY, AND THAT'S WHY I

TH/NK HE WAS SO EFFECTIVE; PEOPLE READ HIS COLUMNS

AND THEY MIRE PART OF THEM SO MANY TIMES.25

(FIRST AARRATOR)

AS THE LEAN YEARS OF THE THIRTIES NEARED AN END,

AERICA WAS KEEPING POSTED OU THE STATUS OF THE WORLD

IN REGARD TO WAR. II; 1939, WHILE IN SEATTLE, PYLE

25Jack Howard, interview.-

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37. Slides Pyle in England

MUSIC...UP AND UNDER(FROM STRAVINSKY'S Aug9' SPRING)

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WROTE OF HIS CONCERN OF THE WAR TO HIS BOSS, LEE

11LLER WHO lAS 014 THE WAY TO FRAME FOR A VACATION, "ALL

THE CRISES OVER THE COUPLE OF PAST YEARS WE'VE NEVER

PAID 'UCH ATTENTION TO1 BUT SOZTHING GOT LI US ABOUT

THIS ONE, AND WE'VE FELT RIGHT FM, THE FIRST DAY THAT

THIS OhE WAS GOING TO BE WAR--NOT A WAR TO END WAR, BUT

A WAR TO END EVERYTEEIG IF WAR BREAKS OUT YOU

BETTER STAY OVER THERE, AND JERRY AND I WILL CONE OVER

AFD JOIN YOU, AND WE'LL BECONE FAMOUS WAR CORRESPONDENTS

....I WILL WRITE 'HOilEY STUFF' FROM WALES AND TENMARX."26

WORLD WAR II DID BEGIN AS PYLE PREDICTED, AND IN

DECEMBER 1940 HE ARRIVED IN ENGLAND TAXING ON HIS FIRST

'MILITARY ASSIGICEIIT. 1, WITH THE SA= HUNANISTIC CON-

CEPTIOL FOR Limn, WHICH HE USED IF WRITING BACK HOME,

ERNIE CAPTURES BOTH THE NAJESTY AND TERROR OF THE

26Miller, in a= 91 =it r.Yakt P. 117.

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39. Slides London on fire

LONDON BLITZ.

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(SECOND NARRATOR)

"SONE DAY WHEN PEACE HAS Herman TO THIS OLD

WORLD I ilANT TO CONE TO LObDON AGAIN AND STAND ON A

CERTAIN BALCONY ON A mum OIGHT AND LOOK DOWN UPON

THE PEACEFUL SILVER CURVE OF THE THAI= WITH ITS DARK

BRIDGES. AND STANDING THERE, I NA:IT TO TELL SOMEBODY

WHO HAS NEVER SEEN IT HOW LONDON* LOOKED ON A CERTAIN

NIGHT IN THE HOLIDAY SEASON OF THE YEAR 1940."

"FOR ON THAT NIGHT THIS OLD, OLD CITY WAS - EVEN

THOUGH I MST BITE hY TONGUE IN SHAM FOR SAYING IT -

Ti, POST BEAUTIFUL SIGHT I HAVE EVER It

"INTO THE DARK SHADOWED SPACES BMOW US, WHILE WE

WATCHED, WHOLE BATCHES OF INCENDIARY BOMBS FELL. WE

SAW TWO DOZEN GO OFF IN TWO =oars. THEY FLASHED

TERRIFICALLY, THEN QUICKLY SIMMERED DOWN TO PINPOINTS

OF DAZZLING WHITE, 3UREING FEROCIOUSLY. TI WHITE

FIN POINTS WOULD GO OUT ONE BY Oa, AS THE UNSEEN

HEROES OF THE 11013NT SMTHERED TON WITH SAND. BUT

ALSO, WHILE WE WATCHED, OTHER PIN POINTS WOULD BUM

ON, AND SOON A YELLOW FLAIAE WOULD LEAP UP FROM THE

WHITE CENTER. THEY HAD DONE THEIR WORK - ANOTHER

BUILDING WAS ON FIRE..."

"...THE THING I SHALL ALWAYS HEMMER ABOVE ALL

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THE OTHER THINGS IN a LIFE IS THE r;OWSTROUS LOVELINESS

OF TEAT oa SINGLE VIM OF LONDON ON A HOLIDAY NIGHT -LONDON elfABBED WITH GREAT FIRES, SHAM BY EXPLOSIONS,

ITS DARK REGIONS ALONG THE THANES SPARIIINC WITH :XS

PTII POIxITS OF NMITE-HOT BOMBS, ALL OF IT ROOFED OVER

WITH A CEILIX OF PINK THAT HELD BURSTING SHELLS,

BALLOONS, FLARES AND THE GRIND OF VICIOUS ENGINES.

MD IN YOURSELF THE rICITEDUNT MD ANTICIPATION AND

WONDER IN YOUR SOUL THAT THIS COULD BE HAPPENING AT

ALL"

"THESE THINGS ALL wan TOGETHER TO FAKE THE MOST

HAT NOST BEAUTIFUL SINGLE SC 'SE I HAW EVER

ITOWi;."27

(FIRST NARRATOR)

THIS MAGNIFI NIA PICTURIZATION OF THE WAR IN

LONDON, RECORDS HOW DEEPLY ERNIE PYLE'S EMOTIONS WERE

TOUCHED BY THE SCENE. WITH THE SAME HUMANISTIC DETAIL

MD APPRECIATION FOR IMAGERY EVIDENT IN HIS HOME COLUMNS,

HE TOOK ONE DAY IN A VAST WAR AND VIVIDLY RECREATED IT

anil....411MINNININAm11111111.mlIMM1.11111=1M1111mid.....

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via, Slide Pyle

FOR THE PEOPLE BAC.i AT HOiE. AND IT WAS WELL RECEIVED.

AFTER THE LONDON BLITZ, HE EAGERLY WROTE HIS WIFE ABOUT

THE PRAISE HIS BLITZ COLUMNS GETTING, (COLUMNS

HE ORIGINALLY HAD DCT BEEN C0i1PLEIELY SATISFIED WITH).

IN A imam DATED JANUAnY 12. 1941, HE TOLD HER THAT

CABLED, "CONGRATULATIONS MARI/mous STUFF

GETTING TERRIFIC PLAY." THAT LETTER ALSO INCLUDED

PYLE'S JUBILATION AT A "FANTASTIC AND MARVELOUS

110-WORD CABLE" FROfl ROY HOWARD, THEN PRESIDENT OF

SCRIPPS-HOWARD. A CABLE OF THAT LENGTH WAS A RARITY

TN ITSELF DURING WAR TIME, AUD THE CONTEITS MADE IT

EVEN NORE CHERISHED BY ERNIE. IT READ, "YOUR STUFF

NOT ONLY GRFATEST YOUR CARE! BUT MOST ILLUMINATING

HUMAN ANTI APPEALING DESCRIPTIVE ?TATTER PRINTED AMERICA

SIME OUTBREAK BATTLE BRITA1N...MEANTIM SCRIPPS-HOWARD

IS, AilD BRITAIN SHOULD BE, PROUD JOB YOU'RE DOING.

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YOUR DAILY PICTURIZATIONS BRITISH CHARACTER COURAGE

THRILLING AaRICA." ABOUT THIS PRAISE 12 CONTINUED TO

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43, Slide: Jack Howard

JERRY, "IT CIVEs NE STYE FRIGHT SO BAD I'VE HARDLY

ABLE TO WRITE A LINE SINCE."213

JACK HOWARD, SON OF ROY HOWARD, REMEMBERS ERNIE'S

SELF CONSCIOUSNESS ABOUT HIMSELF AIM HIS WRITING.

(JACK HOWARD)

HE HAD A TREaCIDOUS EGO, BUT AT THE SME TINE HE

WAS VEflY SELF-EFACI1C, YOU 13i0i1, BUT HE CERTAINLY HAD

iA PRIM IN HIS WORK. HE WAS A CRAFTSMAN.29

(FIRST NARRATOR)

SINCE GOOD CRAFTSMISHIP CAN BE MEASURED IN THE

ENDURANCE OF THE WORK, PYLE'S WRITING CERTAINLY PROVES

ITS GREATNESS. ROY HOWARD SAID BRITAIN SHOULD BE

28Pereonal latter from Ernie Pyle to Jerry Pyle,Jan, 12, 1941.

29Jack Howard, latex-vim

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PROUD OF PYLE IN 1941, AND A REACTION BY ONE WHO

:4. Slides Air raid shelter LIVED THROUGH THE HOLOCAUST 07.7 T11. I min MOO THAT

PYLE HAS EuDURED. DORIS HORNS, A BRITISH SALESCLERK

IN AV INDIAJAPOLIS FABRIC STORE REYJNISCES, "THE

WAR IN ENGLAND WAS AN ALL EACOMASSING WAR, NOT JUST

SIALL WARS III ISOLATED SPOTS LIKE KOREA, AND THEN

5, Slides Pyle

VIET NAH. IT WAS ALL OVER. BLESS HIS HEART, HE

IIHOTE ABOUT IT THAT WAY."30

WHEN THE UtiITED STATES ENTERED WORLD WAR II IN

1941, Ali! RICANS BECAi!E wrist' AS THEY HAD BEEN DURING

NO PREVIOUS WAR.31

PYLE FELT THIS, AND HIS SgriSE OF

DUTY TO GIVE THE PEOPLE BAMC HOME A CLEAR AND HUMAN

UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT THEIR OWN COUNTRY WAS DOING

BECAME STRONGER. ACCORDING TO HENRY STEELS COt'MAGER,

30Doris Horne, interviewed by Gretchen Letterman(Mary Lester Tactics, Indianapolis, Indiana), Var. 1,14.

31Henry Steele Comager, Dr Axe an agit (New

Haven, Yale University Press, 1950 p. 30.

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6. Slides war ruins

W. Slide: Homesick soldiers

W3. Slide: Brotherhood

4.9. Slides

baking

50. Slides

joking

Pyle with soldierbread

Pyle with soldieraround

"THE ACHIEVEPLINS AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF WAR SEEMED TO

HAVE BROUGHT, ALONG WITH A masa OF

AND coen6Ioa n32

TO EVERY AORICAN.

pym 1D4

' ei BEWILDERMENT

D THE ANERIC,Ali TO COL2 DOWN TO EARTH

AND REALIZE WHAT ACTUALLY WE'eT INTO THE CONDUCT OF WAR

BY COVERING ITS SERIOUSNESS IN TERM OF HOW BATTLEFIELDS

PRODUCE A BROTHERHOOD ALM H04t THCSE AT HOME SHOULD

HAVE ktO SHANE OR COMM: ABOUT A DIVISION 'S ABILITY

BECAUSE OF A RETREAT, AITINTERSP2RSING IT WITH

LIGHTER COLUMS ABOUT THE "SOLDIER AS A BORN HOUSEWIFE,"

OR THE TYPE OF BEARDS NOW IN STYLE. JOHN STEMPEL

EMPHASIZES FMNIE'S POPULARITY mu HIS AUDIENCE BACK

HOME AS HE TALKS ABOUT THE PARALLEL OF HIS DOI-ESTIC

COLUI,INS TO THOSE OF THE WAR.

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2. Slide: Pyle with soldiel:

3. Slides Ernie and Jerrybefore Pyle leaves on atrip

THE SECRET OF COURSZ, OF HIS VAR COLUMNS WAS THE

FACT THAT WHEN HE WAS DOING HIS DOAESTIC COLUMNS BEFORE

THE WAR, TRAVELING BACK AND FORTH ACROSS THE COUNTRY

AND VISITING UITH ALL KINDS OF PERSONS, WITH FARMERS IN

THE FIELDS, WITH FILLING STATION ATTENDANTS, WITH

PERSONS IN STORES, WITH DESK CLERKS AT HOTELS - WHEN

HE GOT TO NORTH AFRICA HE DISCOVERED THAT TIRE ARMY WAS

SIPPLY THESE INDIVIDUALS VAT HE HAD BEEN VISITING

WITH FOR YEARS, AND SO HE LDWERSTOOD TIM.33

(FIRST NARRATOR)

IN THE COURSE OF HIS WAR WORTING, ERNIE MADE

VARIOUS TRIPS BACK TO THE UNITED STATE~ FOR PERIODS OF

REST. EACH TIME HE WAS TEMPTED TO FORGET THE WAR AND

MAIN HOW 1k! HOPES OF REMEDYING THE PSYCHOLOGICAL

1=111.....1111NYMM.110033,

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PROBLEMS HIS WIFE, JERRY WAS HAVING, BUT HE ALWAYS

FOLLOWED A SENSE OF DUTY TO HIS WRITING. NOW IN

AFRICA, HE WAS NOT ONLY WITNESSING BATTLE OF THE

INFANTRY ON TEE WAR FRONT, BUT WA3 ALSO EXPERIENCING

TURMOIL OF HIS OWN. HE AND HIS WIFE HAD BEEN DIVORCED

IN A FINAL EFFORT TO SHOCK JERRY OUT OF A HELANCHOLY

PRODUCED BY A COMBINATION OF CONFUSION, ALCOHOL, ILLNESS,

AND DRUGS, YET STILL HE PLODDED ON. IN ONE LETTER TO

HER HE REVEALED THAT THE WAR WAS "NO LONGER EXCITING OR

ROMANTIC TO NE, BUT JUST HORRIBLE. "34

AFTER A REMARRIAGE BY PROXY, 35 ram LIFTED HIS

!SPIRITS AND WROTE JERRY OF HIS DETERMINED SENSE OF

OBLIGATION TO THE WAR. "I'M CONVINCED THAT ESPECIALLY

IN THESE TIKES NOBODY CAN STEP ASIDE Alin JUST LET THE

'Personal letter from Ernie Pyle to Jerry Pyle,1Jan. 7, 1943,(from collection at Indiana University).

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56. Slides Pyle in trench

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WORLD PASS BY WITHOUT ACHIEVING A PEELING OF UTTER

DEFEAT FOR RINSER. I TOO HATE AND DETEST THE WAR AND

THE TRAGEDY AND INSANITY OF IT, BUT I KNOW I CAN'T

ESCAPE MD I TRULY BELIEVE THE ONLY THING LEFT TO DO

IS TO BE III IT TO THE HILT."36

AN UCKIENT a 4.1PLE OF ERNIE PYLE'S HUMANISTIC

CONCERN FOR YTHING AND EVERYONE INVOLVED IN WAR WAS

THE FRIENDSHIP HE EXTENDED TO FELLOW WAR CORRESPONDENT

GRAHAii HOVEY, NOW A rrialiBER OF THE NEW YORK UFA

EDITORIAL BOARD. PYLE WROTE:

( -iD- }ID NARRATOR)

"I LIKED PRACTICALLY ALL THE CORRESPONIENTS, BUT

ONE OF MY FAVORITES WAS GRAHAM HOVEY OF INTERNATIONAL

NEWS SERVICE. I LIKED HIM BECAUSE HE WAS QUIET AND

UNICA/MENG, AND BECAUSE HE WAS SErSITIVE TO THE

BEAUTIES AS WELL AS THE HORRORS OF WAR."

HOVEY HAD AN UNUSUAL BAPTISIT. HE HAD BM{ IN THE

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57. Slides Graham Hovey

58. Slides Pyle "sittingAround

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HEADQUARTERS OFFICE FOR SOa TIME, PESTERING HIS BOSS

TO GET TO THE FRONT. FINALLY HE WENT, AND ON THE FIRST

DAY ALMOST GOT Kuala)."

"THE VERY FIRST BOMB HE EVER SAW FALL, THE VERY

FIRST ONE HE EVER HEARD EXPLODE, WAS A 500-POUNDER THAT

HIT WITHIN FIFTY FEET OF HIM AND KILLED THREE MEN. HE

AND BOOTS NORGAARD OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, A VETERAN

AT SUCH THINGS)ESCAPED ONLY BY THE FREAKISH LUCK OF

FINDING A READY -vAre SLIT INICH JUST WHERE THEY STOPPED.

HOVEY WAS SHAKEN BY no EXPERIENCE, YET AFTER A FEW

HE FELT TEAT LAME FASCINATION FOR THE FRONT THAT

I DID."37

(FIRST NARRATOR)

GRAHAM HOVEY HIP REMMERS THAT AS HIS FIRST

ENCOMTER WITH ERNIE PYLE.

(GRAHAM HOVEY)

THIS LITTLE NAN WAS SITTING AROUND, I DIDN'T KNOW

WHO HE 11AS, BUT HE WAS OBVIOUSLY INTERESTED IN OUR STORY,

AND INTERESTED IN THE FACT THAT THIS HAD BEIM NY VERY

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FIRST DAY AT THE WAR, AND THE FIRST ENEffY BOMB I HEARD

CONE DOW.

(FIRST NARRATOR)

HOVEY RECOLLECTS THAT ERNIE HAD LENT HIS JEEP TO

AND BOOTS NORGAARD, ANOTHER CORRESPONDENT, SO THEY

COULD TURN Li THE STORY OF THEIR FRIGHTENING EXPERIENCE.

(GRAHAti HOMEY)

AND I THINK IT WAS TYPICAL OF ERNIE THAT HE WAS

GOING TO WRITE ABOUT THIS SAME EPISODE LATER anew IN

A WAY THAT GOT BOTH NORGAARD AND ME MORE FAME VAN WHAT

WE WROTE THAT NIGHT BY CANDLELIGHT AT TINS& AND YET

HE APPRECIATED HOW BADLY WE WAXED TO GET THIS STORY

OUT OF THIS FIRST DAY OF THE GEAN ATTACK.39

( FIRST NARRATOR)

ERNIE PYLE HAD AN UNDERSTMDING, THEN, NOT ONLY

3814Lae= Hovey, interviewed Gretchen Letterman(New York Times Building, New York, Mar. 15, 1974.

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FOR THE SOLDIERS, BUT FOR THE CORRESPONI1ENTS. IN THIS

PASSAGE FROM BRAVA EZ HE TAKES TIM OUT FROM MUM

THE SOLDIERS' STORY TO GIVE THE CORRESPONDENTS' SIMILAR

VERSION.

(SECOND NARRATOR)

"WITH THEM AND WITH US CORRESPONDENTS, IT'S THE

CEASELESSNESS, THE ENDLESSNESS OF EVERYTHING THAT

FINALLY WORI'IS ITS WAY THROUGH U3 AIM GRADUALLY nuns

TO DEVOUR US."

"IT'S THE PERPETUAL, CHOKING DUST, THE iiUSCLE-RAKING

HARD GROUND, THE STATCHED FOOD SITTING ILL ON THE

STOMACH, THE HEAT AND THE FLIES AND DIRTY FM MD THE

CONSTANT ROAR OF ENGINES AND THE PERPETUAL MOVING AND

THE NEVER =TWIG DOWN AND THE CO, GO, GO, NIGHT AND-#.

DAY, MD ON THROUGH THE NIGHT AGAIN. EVENTUALLY IT

ALL WORKS ITSELF INTO AN EMOTIONAL TAPESTRY OF ONE DULL,,

DEAD PATTERN-YESTERDAY IS TOMORROW AND TROINA IS

RANDAZZO AND WHEN WILL WE EVER STOP AND, GOD, I'M SO

TIRED."

"I AN NOT max THIS TO MAHE HEROES OF THE

CORRESPONDENTS, BECAUSE ONLY A FEW LOOK UPON THEMSELVES

IN ANY DRAMATIC LIGHT WHATEVER. I AM WRITING IT MERELY

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;4. Slide: Ernie at type-writer


65. Slide: Pyle with Hod-enfield

TO LET YOU KNOW THAT CORRESPONDENTS, TOO, CAN GET SICK

OF WAR - AND DEADLY TIRED."4°

(FIRST NARRATOR)

ERNIE RELATED TO THE OTHER CORRESPONDERTS IN MORE

WAYS THAN OA PAPER. G. K. HODEMIELD, A COMBAT

CORRESPONDENT FOR THE MILITARY PAPER ,STARS &J)2 STRIPES,

RMEitEEMS SHARING THESAHE CORRESPOiXONTS'TENT WITH

ERNIE AND LEARHING UNSPOKEN LESSONS AS HE WATCHED HIM.

(G. K. HODENFIELD)

AND ANOTHER THING, I THIAK ERNIE PROBABLY HAD,

WITHOUT EVER GIVING tE ANY KIND OF laS00 OR SUGGESTING

A DIFFERENT APPROACH ON A STORY, I THINK ERNIE HAD MORE

ItiPACT, noustast WHATEVER UORD YOU WANT, ON ME AS A

WRITER AhD AS A NEWSPAPER NAN THAN ANYBODY I HAVE EVER

LET, ANYBODY I HAD CLASSES UNDER, ANYBODY I'D EVER

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56. Slides books by Pyle


;7,Slidet Pyle at war

STUDIED, WITHOUT EVER TRYING TO.

(FIRST NARRATOR)

ANY EXCERPT FROh ONE OF HIS BOOKS OR COLUMS GIVES

CLEAR REASON WHY ERNIE AND HIS STYLE OF WRITING

APPEALED TO THE PEOPLE, BUT STRONGER PROOF LIES NOT

ONLY IN THE MASS AUDIENCE HE WROTE FOR BUT ALSO IN THE

PEOPLE HE WROTE ABOUT IN THE WAR, THE G.I.'S PROFESSOR

RALPH HOLSINGER, AN EMU MAN IN WORLD WAR II,

REVIEMBERS ERNIE PYLE FROM A SOLDIER'S POINT OF VIEW.

(RALPH HOLSINGER)

AND I THINK I CAN SPEAK FOR SOLDIERS, LIKE

M4 WE FELT THAT EBNIE PYLE CAME CLOSER TO TELLING

PEOPLE BACK HOhE WHAT THE WAR WAS LIKE, ESPECIALLY WHAT

IT WAS LIKE TO US ORDINARY SOLDIERS THAN ANYONE ELSE

WE READ. EVEN THOUGH WE WERE THERE, WE READ HIM, AND

41C. K. Moddenfie1d, interviewed by Gretchen

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69. Slide: Pyle at war

I DON'T EVER REIM tH' READING HIM AS YOU WOULD READ

SUE OF THEi.i AND SAYING, "THAT'S A CROCK OF CRAP, HE

DOESN'T NNOU WHAT HE'S TALKING ABOUT." BUT PYLE KNEW.

HE 1AS THERE.42

(FIRST NARRATOR)

THE WAR tiAGED ON, AND SO DID PYLE, FOLLOWING

CORBAT IN AFRICA, SICILY, AND ITALY. HE RECEIVED MANY

AWARDS FOR HIS DEDICATION AND BRAVERY AS A WAR

CORRESPONDENT, AM CtliG THE.; A PULITZER PRIZE, A PURPLE

HEART, AND TWO DOCTOR Or HUMANE LETTERS DEGREES, FROM

THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW NEXICO Ai D HIS ALMA MATER,

;O. Slides Pyle at ceremony INDIANA UNIVERSITY.43

HERMAN WELLS, THEN PRESIDENT OF

with John Adams, JohnHastings (IU)

INDIANA UNIVERSITY, AND NOW CHANCELLOR, !MEMOS

ERNIE'S MODESTY AND FRIGHT.' - BEFORE THE CEREMONY AT

42Ralph Holsinger, interview.

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2. Slides Bashful Pyle atthe ceremony

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?4. Slides talking withsoldiers

75Slides On Navy ship

SCRIPT

THE PROSPECT OF IIAIDG A

Oral

THOSE 4000 PEOPLE OUT THERE ARE ALL THERE JUST TO

SEE YOU AND IT WOULD BE A VERY GREAT THRILL TO THEM IF

THEY COULD JUST HEAR YOUR VOICE. COULD.YOU SAY JUST

A FEU WORDS? ...HIS ADAWS APPLE WENT UP MD DOWN

THREE OR FOUR MORE TIiNS AND HE FINALLY SAID,

WARLY A STAGE WIIISPER, "TRANI: YOU."44

(FIRST NARRATOR)

AFTER WENDING A TOTAL OF 29 MONTHS Otf THE FRONT,

DIGGING TRENCHES, EATIVa COLD C-RATIONS AND WRITIN1

700,000 WORDS AB= THE WAR" ERNIE PYLE WAS BECOMING

WORN AND TIRED OF WAR. YET HIS DESIRE TO GET THE FEEL

OF THE PACIFIC WAR LURED HIM TO MOTHER SIDE OF THE

WORLD THAT HE HAD NEVER COVERED BEFORE. TO PYLE, THE

(PAGL 3?)

SPIECH.

wiraimtmlOWIN=ImiemsomisssINNOM,Im..a........ammewommrworms.r...o.rwmwme

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"7. Slides Pyle

8. Slides Pyle with PaigeCavanaugh

9. Slides Concern for hisfate

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WAR IN THE PACIFIC WAS A MEM MORE COQ ICATED WAR,

MD THE INCREASED STRESS CLEARLY AFFECTED HIP. TO HIS

WIFE HE WROTE, "ONCE IN A WHILE I'LL CET A LOU SPELL

WHEN THE VAR AND ITS DETAILS OF DEATH AND MISERY GET

TOO REAL IiF FY MIND. "46 FROM GUAM HE WROTE TO HIS

CLOSE FRIEND SINCE COLLEGE DAYS, PAIGE CAVANAUGH,

"I'M STILL NOT BACK TO WAR AS I SHOULD BE, AND I'M

STILL VERY CONFUSED ABOUT EVERYTHING. I'M JUST NOW

COMING OUT OF THE LOWEST SPELLS I'VE EVER HAD. DIDN'T

URITE A LINE FOR ABOUT FIVE DAYSJUST LAY ON NY COT

AND LET NY IMAGINATION RUN WILD ABM MY OWN PRoBABLE

PERSONAL FATE IN THIS WAR, WHICH I CAN'T QUITE FACE,

AitD GOT LOWER AO LOWER. AND THE WAY I LOOK AT THINGS

NOW, I WOULDN'T GIVE YOU TWO CENTS FOR THE LIKELIHOOD

46Personal letter from Ernie Pyle to Jerry Pyle,

Mar. 11, 1945.

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OF ME BEING ALIVE A YEAR FR011 NOW. AND NOT JOH/M.41

IN HIS LAST LETTER TO HIS WIFE, ERNIE SAID, "YOU

CAN'T KNOW THE RELIEF I FELT, FOR AS YOU KNLX I HAD

DREAD THIS ONE TERRIBLY. NOW IT IS BEHIND HE, AND I

WILL NEVER I:AZ:ANOTHER LANDING. "48 ERNIE'S EERY

SENSE OF PRELONITION GAVE UAY TO REALITY FOR ON APRIL 18,

1945, HE IZT HIS DEATH IN A JAPANESE IACHINE GUN AMBUSH

31. Slides Front page of WHILE COVERING THE INVASION OF YE siiimA.49

Washington auk. pews

ERNIE PYLE LOST HIS LIFE RECORDING THE WAR FOR THE

32.Slidet Rough sign erectedby soldiers PEOPLE BACK HONE. IN ONE RECOLLECTION OF ERNIE PYLE,

JO}fr STEMPEL SPEAKS OF PYLE'S JOURNALISTIC CONTRIBUTION

:3. Slides Replaced sign AS A VAR CORRESPONDENT.

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47Personal letter from Ernie Pyle to Paige

Cavanaugh, Mar, 14, 1945, (from collection at IndianaUniversity).

"Personal letter from Ernie Pyle to Jerry Pyle,Apr. 8, 1945.

Obituarip En Ink Ma (Apr. 19, 1945).

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EXCERPT FROil TAPEDINTERVIEW 106/73

Air. Slide: Pyle and soldiers

35. Slides surrounded bysoldiers

36. Slides relaxing on cot

37. Slide s listening toaccordion music

38. Slides with kids in Guam

39. Slides Unveiling ofmonument

?0. Slides Pyle

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(JOHN MEMEL)

HE PROBABLY GAVE THE AVERAGE AMERICAN A FAR BETTER

IDEA OF THE VAR THAN ANYBODY ELSE DID BECAUSE HE TOLD

IT AGAIN IN TERMS OF PEOPLE.5o

(FIRST NARRATOR)

ERNIE norE IN TERMS OF PEOPLE, NOT ONLY IN HIS

WAR CORRESPOLIENCE, BUT IN HIS EVERY SENTENCE. HE WAS

LOVED BY EVERYONE HE TO 44 *It HIS FRIENDS, HIS

COLLEAGUES, TIE SOLDIERS RE LIVED WITH, AND THE PEOPLE

HE WROTE FOR. ON THE NOMUMPT ERECTED AT HIS ]EATH

SITE, THE rOSCRIPTION READS THAT TIME THE 77TH

INFANTRY DIVISION "LAST A BUDDY." HERE IS OUR ERNIE

PYLE: NOT MST A BUDDY TO HIS COMRADE, BUT A FRIEND

WHO GAVE A HUNAN IN OF HIS EXPEMENCES THAT WILL

PERPETUATE TO ALL MAN1aND.

50John Stempel, interview.

ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY: ERNIE PYLEABLE

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IS INTERUEWS cOUDUCTEP 111 la AUTHOR

Elder, Mrs. James P., interviewed by Gretchen Letterman, Dana, Indiana,Feb, 2, 1974. Her husband's family owned the land that Pyle's parentssharecropped. She now owns Pyle's birthplace, and has collections ofhis writings, pictures, and books, plus many personal notes and lettersfrom Pyle's Aunt Mary Bales. She is heading the American Legion fund-raising drive to h 113 the birthplace rejuvenated as a state museum. Inter-view was taped.

Evans, William A. interviewed by Gretchen Letterman, 9535 Broadway,Indianapolis, Indiana, War. 2, 1974. He was a colleague of Ernie at I.U.on the Indiana Daily Student. Interview was taped.

Hodenfield, GA., interviewed by Gretchen Letterman, Indiana University,Bloomington, Indiana, Feb. 13, 1974. He was a combat correspondent forthe Stars and stripes, and knew Ernie personally in North Africa and Europe.He is now Pubications Editor of the News Bureau at I.U. Interview was taped.

Holsinger, Ralph, interviewed by Gretchen Letterman, Indiana University,Bloomington, Indiana, Feb. 18, 1974. He was an enlisted man in the warwhen Pyle was there--was able to give a soldier's point of view of theimpact Pyle had on the G.I.'s. He is now a Professor of Journalism at I.U.Interview was taped.

Hovey, Graham, interviewed by Gretchen Letterman, New York Times Building,New York, March 15, 1974. He was a war correspondent for the InternationalNews Service during World War II. He knew Ernie Pyle personally, havingmany recollections about Pyle as a humanist and journalist. He is nowa member of the Times editorial board. Interview was taped.

Howard, Jack, interviewed by Gretchen Letterman, Pan American Building,New York, Mar. 14, 1974. He worked on the Washington ,Daily News at thesame time Pyle did. Remembering personal incidents, he was close to Pyle.Mr. Howard is now president of Scripps-Howard Newspapers. Interview wastaped.

Meyer, Matt, interviewed by Gretchen Letterman, Pan American Building,New York, Mar. 14, 1974. He was advertising director for the WashingtonD41v News while Ernie Pyle was there. Mr. Meyer is now president ofthe Scripps-Howard Foundation. Interview was taped.

Von Tress, Edward, interviewed by Gretchen Letterman, Indiana University,Bloomington, Indiana, 12, 1974. Involved. in the funding of journal-ism scholarships, he was instrumental in getting personal letters fromPyle to his wife and to Paige Cavanaugh, which are now temporarily housedin Lilly Library on the IU campus. He was former executive vice presidentof Curtis Publishing Company.

Wells, Herman B., interviewed by Gretchen Letterman, Indiana University,Bloomington, Indiana, Mar. 22, 1974. He was colleague of Ernie Pyle atIU, and also president of IU when Pyle received his honorary degree.He is now chancellor at IU. Interview was taped.

BIBLIOGRAPHY (2)

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Horne, Doris, interviewed by Gretchen Letterman, Mary Lester Fabrics,Indianapolis, Indiana, Mar. .1, 1.974. Fondly recalling her days in Britainduring the war, she remembers the impact Pyle had on the people.

PERSONAL LETTERS WRITTEN/RECEIVED

Cavanaugh, Paige, to the author, Feb. 25, 1974. He was close friend toPyle from college, and throughout the rest of Pyle's life.

Ferree, Mark, to the author, Mar. 28, 1974. He was former business

manager at Scripps-Howard at time Pyle worked there.

Lowensohn, Naoma, to the author, Feb. 20, 1974. She is a trustee:tor%Scripps-Howard, vxdoompiled a thorough list of Ames to contact from there.

Norgaard, Noland, to the author, apr. 8, 1974. He was a war correspondent

and knew Pyle personally. Pyle wrote about him in his columns.

Letterman, Gretchen, to Helen Palmer, Mar. 19 1974. She was acting

secretary for Hal Boyle of the Associated Press, and I wrote for the

text of a speech made by Or. Boyle honoring Pyle.

ORIGINAL DOCUMEETS

Personal letters to his wife, Jerry, and to his close friend Paige

Cavanaugh, dated /930-1945, are temporarily catalogued in Lilly Library

at Indiana University. Alsr in the collection are Pyle's original wires,

columns, and dispatches. These itemsv.alont withother*Pyle memorabiliawill be displayed in Ernie Pyle Hall on the IU campus, when remodeling

r+' that building is completed.

NEWSPAPERS Mp liAGAZINE ARTICLES

No page numbers are listed because all articles came from clipping files

in IU journalism library.

Blann, Bob, "One Guy Came to Cbver the Story--His Last," mg Indiana

pe4JygUNAggi April 18, 1959.

Cady, Richard. E., and Gallien, John F., "hoveL Started to Preserve Home

Where Pyle was Born," Thg Indianamolls Star, July 13, 1973

Collier, Joe, -Hoosier Vagabond," mapdianapolis yimes, July 24, 1940.

Eller, Herb, "Ernie Has Visited Bloomington Once, and That Was Because

He Had To Go Through Here on Detour," 2112Xloomitlaton World, August 2, 1940.

Guthrie, Wayne, "Pyle Had. Fears About His Death," nig in4anabolis News,

February 28, /974.

Guthrie, Wayne, Pyle Hated War from EarlyAge," 210! ANAnapoliellm,March 19. 1974.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY (3)

UM= AN It =ME Manias (con. )Guthrie, Wayne, "Pyle Was Artist Turned Journalist," 112g ;ndianamlisEng, February 21, 1974.

"Ernie Pyle," T.okfe Amato, November 15, 1943.

"Ernie Pyle's War," Time Magacjne, July 17, 1944.

"Ernie's Sorry- -We're Sorry," nig Indiana Daily Student, September 22,1943.

"Hoosier is Shot Near =name.," Tim kndi.apapolis News, April 18,1945.

"Pyle on Way over Pacific; Will Cover Navy for Star," 112t kooriat =lagawl January 31, 1945.

"Pyle's Birthplace is in ,haables," s Indiapapolts A. August 5, 1973.

Obituary, 1,:elE xati nmeets April 19, 1945

Obituary, Publisher's Weekly,, April 21, 1945.

Sommers, tlartin, "The Way to Get War News," fth2 214311,.1t Perlin% post,Narch 25, 1944.

"Stahl Remembers Pyle As 'A Very diet Yottle," Thst Terre taut p Tzsibunet,March 14, 1974.

Stempel, John E., "Ernie Pyle," 1172 Quill, May-June, 1945.

Suess, Laura, "P71P: G.I. Journalist," Itigt ;1a ajaz Studept,September 4, 1944.

ISSail IX Mail DUPyle, Ernie, ;tame tom, New York, Grosset and Dunlap, 1944.

Esnis Pyle, In Cruclando New York, Robert ii.NoSride and Co.,1941.

Ingut Exa.'s Soutjasst, ed. by Ed Ainsworth, Palm Desert,California, Desert-Southwest, Inc., 1965.

. BM II IsE, New York, Henry Holt & Co., 1943.

,, Acme C9u4try, New York, William Sloane Associates, Inc., 1947.

I lbs.Witg :awe York, Henry Holt .!1 Co., 1946.

WirEiCurrent Bioicc4phy, New York, The H. V4 Wilson Co., 1941, pp. 687-689.

Hiller, Lee G., &I anut 73ck guys, key York, William Sloane Associates,Ilia., 1946.

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PIOGRAPHY (CONT.)BEST COPY AVAILABLE

hiller, Lee G., pm Story, of Ernie DE12 New York, The Viking Press,1950. Boht Hiller books very personal, complete biography, Allgatmostly pictures.

Em HISTORY

Commager, Henry Steele, Amerj,ganitia, New Haven, Yale UniversityPress, 1950, pp. 406-443.

Hartshorne, Thomas, The Oistorte4 Imalge, The Press of Case Western

Reserve University, Cleveland, 1968.

ladiana Un.Versity, Arbutus, ed. by the Senior Class, Indiana University,Bloomington, Indiana, 1923. Not only gives little sidelights about Pyle,but also gives a picture of what life' was like at that time.

Sulebergez C.L., ZbIzt!mimu Heritage Picturs Jiisto 0.. WgrktNew York, American Heritage Publishing Co., Inc., 1966. Good source

for war history; includes excerpts from Pyle's books and his feelings

of the war.

This Fabulous Cent y, 1920 -1930, 100-1940, New York, Time-Life Books,

19?O. Pictorial history of the way life was when Pyle was writing.

OTHER BONS

The People's Choice, gEnisi Pyle, Chicago, Illinois, Sears People's Book

Club, 1945. Includes excerpts of Emig Dig NaLas feature of themonth, with personality sketches and tritutes to Pyle and his wife Jerry.

Wilson, Helen, It= gyjd, 121E02 Agra Hove, Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill Co., Inc., 1955. Warm, personal children's story.

AI=Slides were made from a collection of pictures at Indiana University,MIEBIte PylegNm, gla American Heritage. Picture History of WorldVA:II..0ther slides are original, taken by the author at interviews,and around campus.

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