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AUTHOR Letterman, Gretchen TITLE Here Is Our Ernie Pyle. PUB DATE Aug 74 IOU 44p.; Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism (57th, San Diego, California, August 18-21, 1974); Some pages have marginal reproducibility
PDRS PRICE MF-S0.75 HC-$1.85 PLUS POSTAGE DESCRIPTORS *Biographies; Higher Education; *Journalism; *Newspapers; *News Reporting; *United States History; Writing IDENTIFIERS *Pyle (Ernie) L9eTRACT This document contains a biographical sketch of Ernie Pyle, the Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist from Indiana who gained fame during World War II as a nationally syndicated correspondent for the Associated Press. The story of Pyle's life is traced from his birth in Dana, Indiana, through his college years and his early years as a rowing reporter for the "Washington Daily News," and concludes with his experiences as a war correspondent and his death vile covering an invasion in the Pacific. (The original presentation of this sketch ir.:luded a slide show compiled from pictures taken by the author and from a collection of pictures at Indiana University.) (RB) 4 Best Available copy U S DE, AN T ARENT OF NEAL TH. TITLE' HERE IS OUR ERNIE PYLE ED. CATiON&WELF ARE NAliONAL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION tNrA(h r( (,s'1 N t PlANt{f N I21-1,140 DATE:August18, 1974 t %....Ar vAl Writ .VI f NOM I HI PI s(11.4 Okk.ASit 741 ;ON 1CDIN PtIty s (1. c-rpoy PEST CCM' Pt": stATI . NW' NI .SA.): t ktPNI GRETCHEN LerreRmAN !fr7E L.t N AL tv,41,ttM, f,p)t k71 I LA!LI rt)N I'Cr? ftiv III.' PIA I( V
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MUSIC...UP AND UNDER (FROM COPLAND'S THIRD (FIRST NARRATOR) P1MPHONY) 4/ ERNIE PYLE--FAMED HOOSIER CORRESPONDENT OF WO= 1. Ernio Pyle
WAR II, MEMBERED MOST FOR "HIS SYMPATHETIC POTITRAYAL
OF THE MATTER -OF -FACT HEROISM OF THE COMMON hAN CAUGHT
1 2. Slide: Pyle with O- UP IN A SAVAGE WAR"-- POSSESSED MUCH MORE THAN A rations
TALENT FOR RECORDING THE BLOOD AND GUTS OF BATTLE.A
PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING JOURNALIST, PILE USED HIS
3.Slide: Pyle with dog INNATE SENSE OF CONCERN FOR THE COMMON PEOPLE NOT ONLY Shop
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
2 NEWSMAN, INTOLERANT OF POM POSITY AND Sr.M" LONG
4. Slide* Pyle, war cor- BEFORE HE BECAME A FAA OUS WAR CORRESPONDENT,. PYLE respondent
SHOWED THIS SAME CONTEMPT FOR POMPOSITY AND SHAM AS
HE TRAVELED ACROSS THE CONTINENT WRITING HIS AMERICANA
1 Personal letter from Noland Norgaard to author, April 6, 150714 a
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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. MUSIC...FADE OUT
THE LIFE OF ERNEST TAYLOR PYLE BEGAN ON AUGUST 3,
1900, IN THE SMALL TOWN OF DANA, INDIANA, WHICH LIES 5.Slide!aby, 10 months
ON THE FLAT, ALMOST PRAIRIE LAND DEAR THE ILLINOIS
BORDER. BROUGHT INTO A RURAL COUNTRY AND QUIET LIFE
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6. Alides with hobby horse 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 GREATARTIST
INSTEAD OF STUDY= JOURNALISM AT INDIANAUNIVERSITY,"'
7. SlidesOriginal birth- SHE RECOLLECTS. IN THE WORDS OF MRS DOROTHY ELDER OF place
DANA, WHO DONATED PYLES BIRTHPLACE TO THE STATEOF d SlidesOriginal birth- place NDIANA AND THE PEOPLE; OF DANA, IT IS PROBABLE THAT
ERNIE GOT HIS FIRST IDEAS OF WRITING ABOUT THELITTLE
THINGS AND ORDINARY PEOPLE WITH SUCH PERFECTDESCRIPTION
FRol LIVING IN THE SMALL TOWN OF DANA.
EXCERPT FROM TAPED (rn.ELDER) INTERVIEW 2/04 9. SlidesMrs. Elder and HE LIKED TO SIT THERE AND LISTEN TO THE GENTLEMEN author
TELL TALES OF WHAT USED TO HAPPEN AROUND DANA.HE' D
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RATHER DO THAT THAN GO TO THE SHOW.
(FIRST NARRATOR)
PYLE, WHOSg SENSE OF IMAGERY POSSINA CAN BE
10. SlidesDana, Indiana TRACED TO HIS SMALL-TOWN ORIGIN IN INDIAntWAS A BIT
MUSIC...UP AND UNDER SKEPTICAL ABOUT THE INFLUENCE HAD HIM, IN A (FROM. FAURE PAVANp)
COLUMN WRT1TEN LATER IN HIS CAREER, ON A NOSTALGIC
RETURN TRIP TO DANA, HE CONVEYS IN SIMPLE WORDS HOW HE
FELT ABOUT HIS HOMETOWN.
(SECOND NARRATOR)
"PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN AROUND SAY DANA ISAMEDIUM-
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
4Mrs.Dorothy Elder, interviewed by Gretchen Letterman (Dana,Indiana),Feb, 2, 1974. BEST COPYAVAILABLE
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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, MUSIC...FADE OUT IMAGINING THE TOWN BOYS WERE MAKING FUN OFMR."5'
(FIRST NARRATOR)
EVEN THOUGH DANA MADE HI:1 SELFCONSCIOUS, THE
SMALL TOWN AND SURROUNDIWG IFIDIANA COUNTRYSIDE BECAME
THE INSPIRATION FOR MANY OF HIS COLUTINS. IN ONE 5116g.aollEztlFs .C.EM. 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 TOTliaUR LOCAL HERO.
(SECOND NARRATOR)
"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
MUSIC ...FADE OUT HAS BEEN FALLING TO PII2CES FOR YEARS. '"6
(FIRST NARRATOR)
.1. Slide; Marker on 36 TODAY A MEMORIAL MARKER STANDS IN A REST PARK ON
HIGHWAY 36NEAR 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
12. Slides Plaque 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 of , DANA ARE PROUD THAT SUCH A MOUS AND LOVED PERSON WAS Ernie Pyle
A PRODUCT OF THEIR TOW?'.
PYLE LIZT DANA AFTER BEING GRADUATED FROfT HIGH
14. Slides Pyle, age 18 SCHOOL IN 1918, AND JOINED THE NAVY. SE&4T TO THE
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOId FOR PRELIMINARY TRAINING, HL WAS
SOON PLACEDOhINACTIVE DUTY BY THE SIGVING OF THE
ARUISTICE.
15. Slide: Indiana Univer- IN 1919, ERNIE ENTERED INDIANA UNIVERSITY. JOHN sity
STEilPEL,FORMER JOURNALIST DEPARTMENTHEAD AT I.U.AND
FRTE1-DLY CLASSMATE COMPETITOR OF ERNIE TALKS ABOUT THE
RunoR THAT ERNIE MAJORED IN JOURNALISM BECAUSE TT WAS
EASY.
EXCERPT FROM TAPED (JOHN STEliPEL) INTERVIEW 11/16/t THAT STORY HAS GON2AROUND THATHEELECTED TOMAJOR 16. Slide: John Stempel
IN JOURNALISM BECAUSESOPLEBODY HAD TOLDHIM TT WAS
EASIERTHAL ANYTHLiGELSE. WELL THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER
IS, THAT AT THAT TIME YOU COULDN'T MAJOR IN JOURNALISM.. BEST COPYAVAILINE
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HE CHOSE Ecovotacs, AND HE HAD A VERY SOLID HIGH B
7 RECORD.
(FIRST NARRATOR)
THOUGH A 'MAJOR IN JOURNALIS,17 WAS NOT POSSIBLE,
ER4DI GOT PLENTY OF JOURNALISTIC EXPERIENCE IN ELECTED
17. Slides Indiana Univer- COU AND AS REPORTER, NEWS EDITOR, AND 1922 SUMMER- sity
TERN EDITOR -IN -CHIEF OF= INDIANA DAILYSTUDENT.8
18. Slides Wm. Evans 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.
EXCERPT FROM TAPED (WILLIAM EVANS) INTERVIEW 3/2/74 Tit= TS AN OLD NEWSPAPER SAYING THAT THE COOLEST 19. Slides Wm. !vans
A44 ON THE HOTTEST JOB MAKES THE FhaTIESTTIME, AND I
9 ow.....=MolmALWAYS FIGURED ERNIE WAS THAT KIND OF A GUY. ?John Stempel,interviewed by Gretchen Letterman, Bloorington, Indiana Nov. 16, 1973,
8LeeG. Miller, AgLitmjabliAlpum (New York, William sloans Associates, Inc., 1946), p.15.
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(FIRST NARRATOR)
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 TOzapAikY =amSIGNED "ERNEST
10 T. PYLE, '23," WHICH WAS HIS FIRST BYLINE.
MUSIC...UP AND UNDER oMINMOMINI.m. am*. ERNIE ALSO WORKED FOR THE ARBUTUS, INDIANA ALA 22.1.4!1411.$ BY JOE T, GILES.) UNIVERSITY'S YEARBOOK, AS A JUNIOR EDITOR. IN THE
1923 VOLUME HE WAS THE FIRST OF TEN MENsumoOUT
20, Slides Picture from TO BE CARICATURED.THE Vasa UNDER THE SKETCH OF HIM otrtutus
HOLDING DA ;PDIANA DAILY Zinn WITH A LITTLE
1°EllenWilson, Ernie Pyle,ziattrozbajim Indianapolis, The Hobbs-Merrill Co., Inc., 1955, p. 165. BM COPY Finn! -.. AUDIO- VISUAL -MISC. SCRIPT (PAGE 10)
JAPAriME iiiut NIPPING AT HIS HEAL, READS s
( SECOND NARRATOR)
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." MUSIC.. FADE OUT (FIRST NARRATOR)
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,
1 a. SlidesWell house on : LEAVII4 BLOM 1NGTON WITHOUT GRADUATING, AND WITH NO campus 12 IaTENTIOilOF SETTING FOOT OLZ TIE INDIANA CAMPUS AGAIN.
1 piaglug(Bloosington, Indiana, Indiana. University, 1 3. 1211i tier, tor.el Ards Exle 25 BEST COPY AVAILABLE
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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,
I2. Slides young reporter HOWEVER, WHEN HE TURvED ;MT L,TOTIILS A3OUT TIM COURTHOUSE,
THE POLICE STATION, AND CITY HALL THAT MADE PEOPLE LIKE
13 HIM IM EDIATELY.
WHEN INVITEDIN 1923WITi 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-
14 PAPERMAN'S HAVEN IN THE NATION'S CAPITOL. AT FIRST
ERNIE WAS ONLY A RETORTER, Buff THEN HE MOVED TO THE
23. Slide; with Daily, ligya POSITION OF COPY READER, A JOB THAT PINKED HIM TO HIS staff
DESK.
BECOMING RESTLESS WITH THE CONFINES OF COPY
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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
4.SlidesErnie and Jerry 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."15FIRST 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 .5. SlidesPyle in airplane
COLUNI ON Ti Z SIDE. BECAUSE HE WA6 HARRIED BY THE
PRESSURE OF BOTH COPY DUTIES AID HI;."; COMM, HE WAS
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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 :6. Slides At desk
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
16 PUT IT ON PAGE 46. 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
16 Jack Howard, interviewed by Gretchen Letterman (Pan American Building, New York), Mar. 14, 1974. BEST COPTAVAILABLE
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DON'T GET A CHANCE TO DO IT VOW. MAYBE THINGS WILL
17 CHANGE LATER."
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.18ONCE 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.
7. Slides with car rea 4to WITH INSTRUCTIONS FROM SCRIPPS-HOWARD TO "DRIVE. roan
'3, Slides Ernie and Jerry WHEREVER HE LIKED, WRITE SIX COLUMNS A Dmi ABOUT ready to travel
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
19 HOPE I CAN MAKE A GO OF IT." HE WROTE A FRIEND.
ERNIE WAS WOW WRITIAG FOR AUDIENCES OF ABOUT 70
20 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.
EXCERPT FROII TAPED (men MEYER) INTERVIEW 3/104 AND THE STAR, REALLY THE STAR OF THE PAPER FROM A !9. Slides matt Meyer
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 ADVERTISINGDIRECTOR, I PICKED UP THE IDEA
THAT THE BEST SALE I COULDMAKE WAS AROUND ERNIE PYLE
AS A MATTER OF FACT,BECAUSE EVERYBODY IN TOWN READ
21 HIM AND EVERYBODY KNEWHIM.
(FIRaT NARRATOR) 30, Slide: Pyle "Star" EVEN THOUGH HE WAS THESTAR OF THE PAPER, PYLE
V.EVER SHOWED ANY SELFREIGHTEOUSII 2,f3S IN HIS WRITING. HIS
FIRST CONCERN WAS TO SEEKOUT THE COQ: iON PEOPLE AND
ORDINARY THINGS THAT OTHERREPORTERS PASSED UP AS
UNIMPORTANT AND PORTRAY THEti TO HISI IN' WITH A
HUNAN INSIGHT FOR DETAILS. WESTBROOK PEGLER, FELLOW
COLUMNIST WROTE: "ERNIE PYLE WRITES HTS WAY ALONG,
KEEPS OUT OF NEW YORK ANDOTHER BIG CITIES THAT ARE
OVERCOVERED BY OTHER REPORTERSAND WRITERS, KNOWS MORE
411M=.01.1=11111111.
21. tett Ileyer, interviewed byGretchen Letterman Pan American Building, New York),Mar. 14, 1974. BEST COPY AVAILABLE
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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."22PYLE 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.
EXCERPT FROM TAPED (RALPH HOLSINGER) INTERVIEW 2/18/74
TI 31SlidesRalph 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,
23 AND HE TOLD IT LIKE I KNOW Tr.
(FIRST NARRATOR)
MUSIC...UP AND UNDER HERE IN ONE OF THOSE BROWN COUNTY ARTICLES, PYLE'S WON COPLAND'S HOEDOWN)
=AILED SIDTLICITY PERFECTLY CAPTURES THE SMALL TOWN
OF NASHVILLE.
(SECOND gARRATOR)
32. SlidesPyle battered "BROWN COUNTY WAS NOT THE SAIL E AS IT WAS WREN THE ha t 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
23Ral Holsinger, interviewedby Gretchen Letterman (Indiana University, Bloomington,Indiana), Feb. 18, 1974. --11...... w.. BEST COPY 0111LARE AUDIO - VISUAL -UISC. SMUT (PAGE 19)
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 HONESTYWAS ALMOST OLD FASHIONED.
FEW PEOPLE IN BROWN COUNTY LOCKEDTHEIR HOUSES, AND
WHEN THEY DID THEY HUNG THE KEY ONA NAIL =ADE THE
DOOR. THEY WORKED IN A WAY THAT WOULD PARALYZEAN
ASSEMBLY LIVE, YET THEIR WORK COTDONE AND FRIENDS
TOLD THERE Wk. SOIOTHVG FUNDAMENTAL IN THEBROWN
COUNTY AIR THAT COMPELLED AN HONEST DAY'SWORK 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 THEWOODS, AND NWT TO
CHURCH AND DRANK WHISIUY. ...SOMETIMES HEWAS PROSPEROUS
ANDSOH TIMES HE DIDN'T MOUNTTO A DAMN - BUT IT
DIDN'T MATTER WHETHER HE LIVED 20MILES UP THE CRICK
IN A CLAPBOARD CABIN OR WORKED IN THEGARAGE DOWNTOWN
AND WORE A DERBY HAT, STILLHIS CODE OF GAIETY AND OF
HONESTY AND HIS IRATE SENSE OF DIGNITYREMAINED THE 24 4USIC...FADE OUT SAE."
33. Slide: Pyle with (FIRST MRRATOR) Sourdoughs FROA BROWN COUNTY TO ALASKA,CROSSING THE MUTED 34. Slide Alaska's first lady barber 2 4Pyle,Eqps gou4rv,P. 455 BEST COPY MARI E
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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.
EXCERPT FROH TAPED (JACK HOWARD) INTERVIEW 3/14/74 ALLOr atn 30 11U Ai. YOU .:".1.01.1, THINGS )5. Slide: Jack Howard 4nd P-410 in old Mercedes, taken1937 THAT HAVE HAPPENED TO EVERYBODY, AND THAT'S WHYI
TH/NK HE WAS SO EFFECTIVE; PEOPLE READ HIS COLUMNS
AND THEY MIRE PART OF THEM SO MANYTIMES.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
25JackHoward, interview. ..a - BEST COPYAVAILABIE
AUDIO -V3 SUAL -MISC SCRIPT (PAGE 21)11.11
36. Slide:Pyle 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 OUTYOU
BETTER STAY OVER THERE, AND JERRY AND I WILL CONE OVER
AFD JOIN YOU, AND WE'LL BECONE FAMOUS WAR CORRESPONDENTS
26 ....I WILL WRITE 'HOilEY STUFF' FROM WALES AND TENMARX."
WORLD WAR II DID BEGIN AS PYLE PREDICTED, AND IN
Pyle in England 37. Slides DECEMBER 1940 HE ARRIVED IN ENGLAND TAXING ON HIS FIRST
MUSIC...UP AND UNDER 'MILITARY ASSIGICEIIT.1, WITHTHE SA= HUNANISTIC CON- (FROM STRAVINSKY'S Aug 9'SPRING) CEPTIOL FORLimn,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. BEST COPY MIMI
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LONDON BLITZ.
0 (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 AmumOIGHT 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 SIGHTIHAVE EVER It
38. Slides London on fire "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 SOONAYELLOW FLAIAE WOULD LEAP UP FROM THE
WHITE CENTER. THEY HAD DONE THEIR WORK - ANOTHER
39.Slides London on fire BUILDING WAS ON FIRE..."
"...THE THING I SHALL ALWAYS HEMMER ABOVE ALL BEST COPY REAM
AUDIO-VISUAL-MISC. SCRIPT (PAGE 23)
THE OTHER THINGS IN a LIFE IS THE r;OWSTROUS LOVELINESS OF TEAT oa SINGLE VIM OF LONDON ON A HOLIDAY NIGHT- 40. SlidotCoventry Cathed- ral after bombing LONDON elfABBED WITH GREAT FIRES, SHAM BY EXPLOSIONS, ITS DARK REGIONS ALONG THE THANES SPARIIINC WITH :XS 4/. Slidesbomb being ex- tracted 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 HAPPENINGAT ALL"
"THESE THINGS ALL wan TOGETHER TO FAKE THE MOST
HAT NOST BEAUTIFUL SINGLE SC 'SE I HAW EVER ITOWi;."27 MUSIC...FADE OUT (FIRST NARRATOR)
THIS MAGNIFINIA 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 RECREATEDIT
anil....411MINNININAm11111111.mlIMM1.11111=1M1111mid..... 'ErniePyle, EI:nis kad ja England (New York, Robert H. McBride and Co., 1541), pp. 30-33. REST COPY AVMLARI1
*1111.0.0.MIDOMMINM 11114611..=1111.M...... AUDIO-VISUAL-TitISC. SCRIPT (PAGE 24)
FOR THE PEOPLE BAC.i AT HOiE. AND IT WAS WELL RECEIVED.
AFTER THE LONDON BLITZ, HEEAGERLYWROTE HIS WIFEABOUT
THE PRAISE HIS BLITZ COLUMNS GETTING, (COLUMNS via, Slide Pyle HE ORIGINALLY HAD DCT BEEN C0i1PLEIELY SATISFIED WITH).
IN Aimam 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. BEST COPY MARE
AUDIO-VISUAL-PaSO, scam (PAGE 25)
YOUR DAILY PICTURIZATIONS BRITISH CHARACTER COURAGE
THRILLING AaRICA." ABOUT THIS PRAISE 12 CONTINUED TO
JERRY, "IT CIVEs NE STYE FRIGHT SO BAD I'VE HARDLY
213 ABLE TO WRITE A LINE SINCE."
JACK HOWARD, SON OF ROY HOWARD, REMEMBERS ERNIE'S
SELF CONSCIOUSNESS ABOUT HIMSELF AIM HIS WRITING.
EXCERPT FROM TAPED (JACK HOWARD) INTERVIEW 3/1104
HE HAD A TREaCIDOUS EGO, BUT AT THE SME TINE HE 43, Slide:Jack Howard
WAS VEflY SELF-EFACI1C, YOU 13i0i1, BUT HE CERTAINLY HAD
29 iA PRIM IN HIS WORK. HE WAS A CRAFTSMAN.
(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
28Pereonallatter from Ernie Pyle to Jerry Pyle, Jan, 12, 1941. 29Jack Howard, latex-vim BEST COPY AVAILABLE
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PROUD OF PYLE IN 1941, AND AREACTION 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 FABRICSTORE REYJNISCES, "THE
WAR IN ENGLAND WAS AN ALLEACOMASSING WAR, NOT JUST
SIALL WARS III ISOLATED SPOTSLIKE KOREA, AND THEN
VIETNAH. IT WAS ALL OVER. BLESS HIS HEART, HE
30 IIHOTEABOUT IT THAT WAY."
WHEN THE UtiITED STATESENTERED WORLD WAR II IN
1941, Ali! RICANS BECAi!Ewrist' AS THEY HAD BEEN DURING
31 5, SlidesPyle NO PREVIOUS WAR. PYLE FELT THIS, AND HIS SgriSEOF
DUTY TO GIVE THE PEOPLE BAMCHOME A CLEAR AND HUMAN
UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT THEIR OWNCOUNTRY WAS DOING
BECAME STRONGER. ACCORDING TO HENRY STEELSCOt'MAGER,
30 Doris Horne, interviewed byGretchen Letterman (Mary LesterTactics, Indianapolis, Indiana),Var. 1,14. 31 Henry Steele Comager, DrAxe an agit (New Haven, Yale University Press,1950 p.30. BEST COPYAVAILABLE
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6. Slides war ruins "THE ACHIEVEPLINS AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF WAR SEEMED TO
HAVE BROUGHT, ALONG WITH A masa OF'ei BEWILDERMENT
32 AND coen6Ioa n TO EVERY AORICAN.
pym 1D4 D THE ANERIC,Ali TO COL2 DOWN TO EARTH
AND REALIZE WHAT ACTUALLY WE'eT INTO THE CONDUCT OF WAR
W. Slide: Homesick soldiers BY COVERING ITS SERIOUSNESS IN TERM OF HOW BATTLEFIELDS
W3. Slide: Brotherhood 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
4.9. Slides Pyle with soldier LIGHTER COLUMS ABOUT THE "SOLDIER AS A BORN HOUSEWIFE," bakingbread
50. Slides Pyle with soldierOR THE TYPE OF BEARDS NOW IN STYLE. JOHN STEMPEL jokingaround
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.
32 Commager, Ihgt American Mind, pp. 432-433. BEST COPY AVAILABIE
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EXCERPT FROM TAPED (JOHN STEim) IRBERVIEW11/36/73
THE SECRET OF COURSZ, OF HISVAR COLUMNS WAS THE
FACT THAT WHEN HE WAS DOINGHIS DOAESTIC COLUMNS BEFORE
Slides Pyle at type- writer THE WAR, TRAVELING BACK ANDFORTH ACROSS THE COUNTRY
AND VISITING UITH ALL KINDS OFPERSONS, WITH FARMERS IN
THE FIELDS, WITH FILLINGSTATION ATTENDANTS, WITH
PERSONS IN STORES, WITH DESKCLERKS AT HOTELS- WHEN
HE GOT TO NORTH AFRICA HEDISCOVERED THAT TIRE ARMY WAS
SIPPLY THESE INDIVIDUALS VATHE HAD BEEN VISITING
2. Slide: Pyle with soldiel:WITH FOR YEARS, AND SO HELDWERSTOOD TIM.33
(FIRST NARRATOR)
IN THE COURSE OF HIS WARWORTING, ERNIE MADE
VARIOUS TRIPS BACK TO THE UNITEDSTATE~ FOR PERIODS OF
3.SlidesErnie and Jerry REST. EACH TIME HE WAS TEMPTED TOFORGET THE WAR AND before Pyle leaves ona trip MAIN HOW 1k! HOPES OFREMEDYING THE PSYCHOLOGICAL 1=111.....1111NYMM.1100 33, John Stempel, interview: .01A .." 4, BEST COPY AIMIIABI E
AUDIO4ISUALMIS4. SCRIPT (PAGE 29)
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 BATTLEOF THE
INFANTRY ON TEE WAR FRONT, BUT WA3 ALSO EXPERIENCING
F. Rlidet Pyle - worn TURMOIL OF HIS OWN. HE AND HIS WIFE HAD BEEN DIVORCED
IN A FINAL EFFORT TO SHOCK JERRY OUT OFA HELANCHOLY
PRODUCED BY A COMBINATION OFCONFUSION, ALCOHOL, ILLNESS,
AND DRUGS, YET STILL HE PLODDED ON. IN ONE LETTER TO
HER HE REVEALED THAT THE WAR WAS "NOLONGER EXCITING OR
ROMANTIC TO NE, BUT JUST HORRIBLE. "34
AFTER A REMARRIAGE BY PROXY, 35 ramLIFTED HIS
!SPIRITS AND WROTE JERRYOF HIS DETERMINED SENSE OF
OBLIGATION TO THE WAR. "I'M CONVINCED THAT ESPECIALLY
IN THESE TIKES NOBODY CAN STEP ASIDEAlin JUST LET THE
'Personalletter from Ernie Pyle to Jerry Pyle, 1Jan. 7, 1943,(from collectionat Indiana University).
I 35Personalletter from Ernie Pyle to Jerry Pyle, liar. 12, 1943, BEST COPY AVAILABLE
AUDIO-VISUAL-MISC. SCRIPT (PAGE 30)
WORLD PASS BY WITHOUT ACHIEVING A PEELING OF UTTER
55. Slide:Ruins at Anzac DEFEAT FOR RINSER. I TOO HATE AND DETEST THE WAR AND
THE TRAGEDY AND INSANITY OF IT, BUT I KNOW I CAN'T
56. SlidesPyle in trench ESCAPE MD I TRULY BELIEVE THE ONLY THING LEFT TO DO
IS TO BE III IT TO THE HILT."36
NUSIC...UP AND UNDER AN UCKIENT a4.1PLE OF ERNIE PYLE'S HUMANISTIC (FROM BEETHOVEN'S PROMTHEUS) 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
Personalletter from Ernie Pyle to Jerry Pyle, Mar. 13, 1943, BEST COPY AVAILABLE
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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 THINGSESCAPED 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 37 MUSIC...FADE OUT I DID."
(FIRST NARRATOR)
GRAHAM HOVEY HIP REMMERS THAT AS HIS FIRST
ENCOMTER WITH ERNIE PYLE.
EXCERPT FROM TAPED (GRAHAM HOVEY) INTERVIEW 4/15/74
57. SlidesGraham Hovey THIS LITTLE NAN WAS SITTING AROUND, I DIDN'T KNOW
WHO HE 11AS, BUT HE WAS OBVIOUSLY INTERESTED IN OUR STORY, 58. SlidesPyle "sitting Around AND INTERESTED IN THE FACT THAT THIS HAD BEIM NY VERY
37Ernie Pyle, Egn la Your lazy pp. 220-221. BEST COPY AVAILABLE
4wee.. a.m..mqu.s.=.wwM.P.M1M. AUDIO - VISUAL -! IS. SCRIPT (PAGE 32)
FIRST DAY ATTHE WAR, AND THE FIRSTENEffY BOMB I HEARD
CONE DOW.
(FIRST NARRATOR)
HOVEY RECOLLECTS THAT ERNIE HAD LENT HIS JEEP TO
.9. slides Pyle and jeep AND BOOTS NORGAARD, ANOTHER CORRESPONDENT, SO THEY
COULD TURN Li THE STORY OF THEIR FRIGHTENING EXPERIENCE.
EXCERPT FROM TAPED (GRAHAti HOMEY) INTERVIEW 3/15/74
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
39 OUT OF THIS FIRST DAY OF THE GEAN ATTACK.
( FIRST NARRATOR)
MUSIC...UP AND UNDER ERNIE PYLE HAD AN UNDERSTMDING, THEN, NOT ONLY (FROM STRAVINSKY'S Eln SIE MIN)
3814Lae= Hovey, interviewed Gretchen Letterman (New York Times Building, NewYork,Mar. 15, 1974. "GrahamHovel interview. BEST COPYAVAILABLI
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;0, Slide: Correspondents FOR THE SOLDIERS, BUT FOR THE CORRESPONI1ENTS. IN THIS
PASSAGE FROM BRAVA EZ HE TAKES TIM OUT FROM MUM
31. Slides Diggingditches 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
Slides Pyle eating with HARD GROUND, THE STATCHED FOOD SITTING ILL ON THE soldiers STOMACH, THE HEAT AND THE FLIES AND DIRTY FM MD THE
CONSTANT ROAR OF ENGINES AND THE PERPETUAL MOVING AND
;3.Slide: war shot 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 BEST COPY AVAILABLE
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TO LET YOU KNOW THAT CORRESPONDENTS, TOO, CAN GET SICK
OF WAR - AND DEADLY TIRED."4° MUSIC...FADE OUT (FIRST NARRATOR)
ERNIE RELATED TO THE OTHER CORRESPONDERTS INMORE
WAYS THAN OA PAPER.G. K. HODEMIELD, A COMBAT
CORRESPONDENT FOR THE MILITARY PAPER ,STARS &J)2 STRIPES,
RMEitEEMS SHARING THESAHE CORRESPOiXONTS'TENT WITH
;4. Slide: Ernie at type- writer ERNIE AND LEARHING UNSPOKEN LESSONS AS HE WATCHED HIM.
EXCERPT FROM TAPED (G. K. HODENFIELD) INTERVIEW 2/13/74 65. Slide: Pyle with Hod- enfield 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 HADMORE
ItiPACT,noustastWHATEVER UORD YOU WANT, ON ME AS A
WRITER AhD AS A NEWSPAPER NAN THAN ANYBODY I HAVEEVER
LET, ANYBODY I HAD CLASSES UNDER, ANYBODYI'D EVER
°ErniePyle, Bray, tka (New York, Groaset and Dunlap, 1944), pp. 85-86. BEST COPYAVAILABLE
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STUDIED,WITHOUT EVER TRYING TO.
(FIRST NARRATOR)
56. Slidesbooks by Pyle ANY EXCERPT FROhONE OFHIS BOOKS OR COLUMS GIVES
CLEAR REASON WHY ERNIE AND HIS STYLE OF WRITING
APPEALED TO THEPEOPLE, BUT STRONGER PROOF LIES NOT
ONLY IN THE MASSAUDIENCEHE 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,
REVIEMBERSERNIEPYLE FROM A SOLDIER'S POINT OF VIEW.
EXCERPT FROM TAPED (RALPH HOLSINGER) INTERVIEW 2/10/74
AND I THINK I CAN SPEAK FOR SOLDIERS, LIKE
;7,Slidet Pyle at war 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
41 C. K. Moddenfie1d, interviewed by Gretchen Letterman, (Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana), Feb. 13, 1974 BEST COMAMAMI
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8, SlidesPyle at war I DON'T EVER REIM tH'READINGHIM 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.
42 69. Slide: Pyle at war HE 1AS THERE.
(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.; APULITZER PRIZE, APURPLE
HEART, AND TWO DOCTOR Or HUMANE LETTERS DEGREES, FROM
THEUNIVERSITY OF NEW NEXICO Ai D HIS ALMA MATER,
43 ;O. SlidesPyle at ceremony INDIANAUNIVERSITY. HERMAN WELLS, THEN PRESIDENT OF with John Adams, John Hastings (IU) INDIANA UNIVERSITY,AND NOW CHANCELLOR, !MEMOS
ERNIE'S MODESTY AND FRIGHT.' - BEFORE THE CEREMONY AT
42RalphHolsinger, interview.
°Obituary,Publishers' %teeny (Apr. 21, 1945) p. 1665. BEST COPY AMIABLE
AUDIO - VISUAL -iISC. SCRIPT(PAGL 3?)
THE PROSPECT OF IIAIDG ASPIECH.
EXCERPT FROIi TAPED Oral INTERVIEW 3/22/4
I. Slide Herman Wells 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
2. Slides Bashful Pyle at A FEU WORDS? ...HIS ADAWS APPLE WENT UP MD DOWN the ceremony
THREE OR FOUR MORE TIiNS AND HE FINALLY SAID,
WARLY A STAGE WIIISPER, "TRANI:YOU."44
(FIRST NARRATOR)
'3.Slides Pyle with dog AFTER WENDING A TOTAL OF 29 MONTHS Otf THE FRONT,
?4. Slides talking with DIGGING TRENCHES, EATIVa COLD C-RATIONS AND WRITIN1 soldiers
700,000 WORDS AB= THE WAR" ERNIE PYLE WAS BECOMING
WORN AND TIRED OF WAR. YET HIS DESIRE TO GET THE FEEL
75Slides On Navy ship OF THE PACIFIC WAR LURED HIM TO MOTHER SIDE OF THE
WORLD THAT HE HAD NEVER COVERED BEFORE. TO PYLE, THE
wiraimtmlOWIN=ImiemsomisssINNOM,Im..a...... ammewommrworms.r...o.rwmwme
44HermanB. dells interviewed by Gretchen Letterman (Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana) liar. 22, 1974. "DorothyElder, interview. BEST COPY AVAILABLE
AUDIO-VISUAL-MISC. SCRIPT (PAGE 38)
6. Slide: Pyle WAR IN THE PACIFIC WAS A MEM MORE COQ ICATED WAR,
MD THE INCREASED STRESS CLEARLY AFFECTED HIP. TO HIS
"7. Slides Pyle 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
8. Slides Pyle with Paige CLOSE FRIEND SINCE COLLEGE DAYS, PAIGE CAVANAUGH, 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
9. Slides Concern for his PERSONAL FATE IN THIS WAR, WHICH I CAN'T QUITE FACE, fate
AitD GOT LOWER AO LOWER. AND THE WAY I LOOK AT THINGS
NOW, I WOULDN'T GIVE YOU TWO CENTS FOR THE LIKELIHOOD
46 Personal letter from Ernie Pyle to Jerry Pyle, Mar. 11, 1945. BEST COPT AVAIL LIKE
1 R... I I= la AUDIO-VISUAL-MISC. SCRIPT (PAGE 39)
OF ME BEING ALIVE A YEAR FR011 NOW. AND NOTJOH/M.41
NUSIC...UP AND UNDER IN HIS LAST LETTER TO HIS WIFE, ERNIESAID, "YOU (FMK DVORAN's Ir KniL2 MOUND CAN'T KNOW THE RELIEF I FELT,FOR AS YOU KNLX I HAD
DREAD THIS ONE TERRIBLY. NOW IT IS BEHIND HE, AND I
80.Slidet Last picture to WILL NEVER I:AZ:ANOTHER LANDING. "48ERNIE'S EERY be taken of Pyle,
SENSE OF PRELONITION GAVE UAYTO REALITY FOR ON APRIL 18,
1945, HE IZT HIS DEATHIN A JAPANESE IACHINE GUN AMBUSH
31. Slides Front page of 9 WHILE COVERING THE INVASIONOF YEsiiimA.4 Washingtonauk.pews
ERNIE PYLE LOST HIS LIFE RECORDINGTHE WAR FOR THE 32.SlidetRough sign erected by soldiers PEOPLE BACK HONE. IN ONE RECOLLECTION OF ERNIE PYLE,
JO}fr STEMPEL SPEAKS OF PYLE'SJOURNALISTIC CONTRIBUTION
:3. Slides Replaced sign AS A VAR CORRESPONDENT.
40,
7 4Personal letter from Ernie Pyleto Paige Cavanaugh, Mar, 14, 1945, (from collectionat Indiana University).
"Personalletter from Ernie Pyle to Jerry Pyle, Apr.8, 1945.
ObituaripEn Ink Ma(Apr.19, 1945). BEST COPY IIIINIABLE
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EXCERPT FROil TAPED (JOHN MEMEL) INTERVIEW 106/73
Air. Slide:Pyle and soldiers HE PROBABLY GAVE THE AVERAGE AMERICANA FAR BETTER
IDEA OF THE VAR THAN ANYBODY ELSE DIDBECAUSE HE TOLD
5o IT AGAIN IN TERMS OF PEOPLE.
(FIRST NARRATOR)
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50JohnStempel, interview. ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY: ERNIE PYLE ABLE Gretchen Letterman BEST COPY NARK t
IS INTERUEWS cOUDUCTEP111 la AUTHOR
Elder, Mrs.James P., interviewed by GretchenLetterman, Dana, Feb, 2, 1974. Her husband's family Indiana, owned the land thatPyle's parents sharecropped. She now owns Pyle's birthplace, and hascollections of his writings,pictures, and books, plus many personalnotes and letters from Pyle's AuntMary Bales. She is headingthe American Legion raising drive to h113 the birthplace fund- view was taped. rejuvenated asa state museum. Inter-
Evans, WilliamA. interviewed by Gretchen Letterman, 9535Broadway, Indianapolis, Indiana,War. 2, 1974.He was a colleague on the Indiana Daily of Ernie at I.U. Student. Interview was taped. Hodenfield, GA., interviewed by GretchenLetterman, Indiana Bloomington, Indiana,Feb. 13, 1974. University, the Stars and He was a combatcorrespondent for stripes, and knewErnie personally He is now in North Africa andEurope. Pubications Editorof the News Bureau at I.U. Interview was taped. Holsinger, Ralph,interviewed by Gretchen Letterman, IndianaUniversity, Bloomington, Indiana,Feb. 18, 1974. when Pyle He was an enlistedman in the war was there--was ableto give a soldier's impact Pyle had point of view of the on the G.I.'s. He is now a Professor Interview was taped. of Journalism atI.U.
Hovey, Graham,interviewed by Gretchen Letterman, New YorkTimes Building, New York, March15, 1974. He was a war News Service correspondent for theInternational during World WarII. He knew Ernie Pyle many recollections personally, having about Pyle asa humanist and journalist. a member of the Times He is now editorial board.Interview was taped. Howard, Jack, interviewed byGretchen Letterman, Pan New York, Mar. 14, American Building, 1974. He workedon the Washington ,Daily same time Pyle did. News at the Remembering personalincidents, he was close Mr. Howard isnow president of to Pyle. taped. Scripps-Howard Newspapers. Interview was
Meyer, Matt, interviewed by GretchenLetterman, Pan New York, Mar. 14,1974. American Building, He was advertisingdirector for the D41v News whileErnie Pyle was there. Washington the Scripps-Howard Mr. Meyer isnow president of Foundation. Interview was taped. Von Tress, Edward, interviewed by GretchenLetterman, Indiana Bloomington, Indiana, University, 12, 1974. Involved. in the ism scholarships, funding of journal- he was instrumentalin getting personal Pyle to his wifeand to Paige letters from Cavanaugh, whichare now temporarily in Lilly Libraryon the IU campus. housed He was formerexecutive vice of Curtis PublishingCompany. president
Wells, Herman B., interviewed by GretchenLetterman, Indiana Bloomington, Indiana,Mar. 22, 1974. University, He was colleagueof Ernie Pyle IU, and also presidentof IU when Pyle at He is now chancellor received his honorarydegree. at IU.Interview was taped. BIBLIOGRAPHY (2)
INTERVIEW (CONT.) BEST co MUM
Horne, Doris, interviewed by Gretchen Letterman, Mary Lester Fabrics, Indianapolis, Indiana, Mar. .1, 1.974. Fondly recalling her days in Britain during 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 to Pyle 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 attime 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 hiscolumns.
Letterman, Gretchen, to Helen Palmer,Mar. 19 1974.She was acting secretary for Hal Boyle of theAssociated Press, and I wrote forthe 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 inLilly Library at Indiana University. Alsr in the collection are Pyle's original wires, columns, and dispatches.These itemsv.alont withother*Pyle memorabilia will 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 camefrom clipping files in IU journalism library.
Blann, Bob, "One Guy Came to Cbver the Story--His Last," mgIndiana pe4JygUNAggi April 18, 1959.
Cady, Richard. E., and Gallien, John F., "hoveL Startedto Preserve Home Where Pyle was Born," Thg Indianamolls Star,July 13, 1973
Collier, Joe, -Hoosier Vagabond," mapdianapolisyimes, July 24, 1940.
Eller, Herb, "Ernie Has Visited Bloomington Once, andThat Was Because He Had To Go Through Here on Detour,"2112Xloomitlaton World, August 2, 1940.
Guthrie,Wayne,"Pyle Had. Fears About HisDeath," nig in4anabolis News, February 28, /974.
Guthrie, Wayne, Pyle Hated War from EarlyAge," 210!ANAnapoliellm, March 19. 1974. 43 BEST COPY AMAMI BIBLIOGRAPHY (3) UM= AN It =ME Manias (con. ) Guthrie, Wayne, "Pyle Was Artist Turned Journalist," 112g ;ndianamlis Eng, 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 =lag awl 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 DU Pyle, Ernie, ;tametom, New York, Grosset and Dunlap, 1944.
EsnisPyle, InCruclandoNew York, Robert ii.NoSride and Co., 1941.
Ingut Exa.'s Soutjasst, ed. by Ed Ainsworth, PalmDesert, California, Desert-Southwest, Inc.,1965. . BM II IsE, New York, Henry Holt & Co., 1943. ,,Acme C9u4try, New York, William Sloane Associates,Inc., 1947.
Ilbs.Witg :awe York, Henry Holt .!1 Co., 1946. WirEi Current 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. BIBLIOGRAPHY (4) BEST COPY AVAILABLE PIOGRAPHY (CONT.) hiller, Lee G., pm Story, of Ernie DE12 New York, The Viking Press, 1950. Boht Hiller books very personal, complete biography, Allgat mostly pictures.
Em HISTORY
Commager, Henry Steele, Amerj,ganitia, New Haven, Yale University Press, 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.. Wgrkt New 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 the month, 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 AmericanHeritage.Picture History of World VA:II..0ther slides are original, taken by the author at interviews, and around campus.