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"human being he was.

American legend. But Mr. Miller

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~The Human Story And His Love

By ‘Lee Miller. New York, Viking,| *

“THE STORY OF ERNIE PYLE." $3.95. 2

Lee Millér notes that “No oth

Mr. Miller points out, was th .in our knowledge of the great waging it.” -

Then, in a book extraordi-/|

nary for its frankness and sometimes almost brutal honesty, "Lee Miller does an outstanding job of telling’ why Ernie could ~ write about civilians turned soldiers as he did. He tells it in 426 pages and when you Jay down the book you have looked into a man’s life which was never normal but which, because it was not, made Ernie Pyle the ‘highly sensitive

- American Legend ‘By now, most of the material about Ernie Pyle's life as a-war correspondent has become an

has much that is new to add, and the rest is good to read in the retelling. What makes “The Story of Ernie Pyle” an important document, however, is Mr. Miller's sensitively handled and yet journalistically objective guided tour through Ernie Pyle's private Purgatory. This, of course, was Jerry the sweet and tragic figure ‘who was Mrs. Ernie Pyle. ~ In the days of Ernie's fame, Jerry Pyle was, even at her best, A neurotic. In Ernie's own letters An occasional tentative attempt is made to explain Jerry's condition as a reaction to the sudden rise to national prominence of the ‘husband -she-- hitherto -had--shel-

inated. But you get the impression Jerry could not be fitted into any logical pattern. A vigorous, nonconformist, Jerry was having

e . moods, even before Ernie became a famous ScrippsHoward war correspondent.

ht Moments at Ernie's labors “at divided her time between itar

room in the Pyles’ Albuquerque e. There were only a few moments of brightness in the last years of her life and those were Ernie’s only bright moménts, too. Crises occurred at regular inter-

By ANDREW TULLY, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer j In the foreword to his book, “The Story of Ernie Pyle,”| er journalist ever evoked such: mass affection” as was accorded Ernie during his short career as a nationally known newspaperman. The reason, as

living had become... I think one

wanted to go out that way—as we were.”

deep into the man who was Ernie Pyle — a man who could write about ordinary men in a war because his feelings, his basic makeup,

at Ernie Pyle “bridged a gap war and of the méngvho were

‘Love Not Enough’

He could be firm and realistic, too. Just before their divorce, he {wrote Jerry that “I suppose our [trouble is that we still love each {other despite everything; yet it isn’t enough to- sustain either of us.” But a few days later he was {writing her that “as long as {there is the slightest hope, there [is no othér woman in the world |for me ... we are too intimately woven together to separate ourselves, really.” And just before he left for England in 1942 he wrote her {from the Algonquin Hotel in New| York: “Darling . . . I came here; because I couldn’t stand to go to the Piccadilly (the hotel where they usually stayed together) without you . . . I am all alone. Be my old Jerry when I come] back. I love you.” . i Broken Tie Mended Possibly it would have been| better for all concerned -if the Pyles had stayed divorced. But here again, Ernie showed his humanness—his human weakness. He could not be happy, even abroad, until the broken tie with Jerry had been mended. They were remarried by proxy Mar. 10, 1943, and Ernie learned of it through a cable from the United Press two days later, asking him for details. . :

celved word marri- ve from London. So happy coi. | bust. Love you.” Still later he wrote her, “It fills up again the mere shell that

of the reasons I wanted this is

that if anything should happen to me before this war is over I

Deep Insight : In let such as these you see

were those of an ordinary

vals. Some people are going that it was bad taste on Mr. Mil-

ler's part to use the letters writ-|oft-mentioned preoccupation with ten by Ernie and Jerry to each|the problem of keeping warm and other. But it is only through/clean and safe.

reading Ernie's letters to his wife

that the reader is able to under- important in that it emphasizes stand the depth and breadth of (Ernie Pyle was not a hero. BeErnie Pyle’s enormous store of cause he was not, and because he humanness. It is the humanness had an almost fathomless com-+ of a man, not of a martyr-bur-|passion for human beings, he was able to tell better than anybody else, anywhere, the human side of a war which to him was an “unalleviated misfortune.”

dened with a sick wife, for sometimes Ernie was impatient, as all men are with their presumably insoluble problems,

Historian Urges u.

“REPRIEVE FROM WAR." By Lionel Gelber. New: York,: Macmil-

lan, $3, =

By BILL TENENBAUM jot world problems is the complete {mistrust and From Germany. :

THE THING TO REMEMBER when reading “Reprieve War” by Lionel Gelber, is that]

it was written before the outbreak forts to resucitate German in{dustry will boomerang right in Mr. Gelber’s. belief, now seem- our face because ucti “ingly shared BY most of the Weat- [power ‘and Industrial revival are # inseparable” and “a strong Ger-|

of war in Korea.

ern world, is that to keep the

Steps toward that end in the U. 8.|the cudgels against the West than| career of story-telling. Titled

since Korea, do not reduce the! effect of his exhortation, but

rather enhance his reputation as/lauds the U. 8. for its part in| a historian. othe “North Atlantic Pact.

‘Boomerang’ Feared Mr. Gelber, a Canadian scholar | Power” in 1942. With a second! world war out of -the “way and!

has brought up to date his plea |

for a reprieve from war through [At times the book is depressing; a_preponderance of power, {always provoking. This is not for

The most outstanding facet of | this short but ponderous study!

to feel {frequent

man. You get it, too, ‘in Ernie's gripes about the per-|

sonal discomforts of war and his|——— — -

“The Story of Ernie Pyle” is

S. Gird for War

incrimination of

Mr. Gelber assures us that ef-

“productive |

for it.” On the credit side, Mr. Gelber

He!

He cabled Jerry then, “Just re- i

He lost the use of his left arm at Gettysburg, his right leg at Chickamauga, yet he fought on until the lat bitter moment when his valiant Army of Tennessee fled in rout before the sledge hammer blows of Gen. Thomas at Nashville, ’

ian’s unhappy fate to bear more than a fair share of the blame

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is nearing comEe Joes gen, no doubt! omicer who led his men with reck- selfishness — once - dictatorship |pletfon. It will be .published in promp UT, + Iyer. 10 Se “less and often rash courage ongains power, it seems to many early 1951. 3 37h N ” "7 {the field and followed orders men more profitable to exploit the Vv without - hesitation or complaint.|system than to oppose it. And thus ove However, as he progressed in thejit gains the support and prestige Lab on Wheels

The back end of a railway baggage car is not the most appropriate place in which to begin an impressive career as one of the world’s greatest inventors. Yet, according to Childcraft, it was while he had a job selling candy and magazines on a train between Detroit and Port Huron, Mich; that Thomas A. Edison ‘set up Nis first “laboratory” —in a | ‘baggage car.

line of command, he seemed to/of the masses. {lose some of his best traits and ee een become somewhat of a sycophant, Book on MacArthur | “MacArthur: Man of Action,”

Dr. Dyer finds, One Philosophy described as the first complete “Hood,” he writes, “right or Study: of Gen. MacArthur, has wrong, had only one philosophy been written by Frank Kelley, of battle—attack and fight. He national editor of the New York was never clever at maneuvering Herald Tribune, and Cornelius tor -deception. ~ His “strategy was Ryan of Newsweek. ~ It “will “be never brilliant, but he had com-|Published Oct. 19 by Doubleday.

Qur service embodies all that

plete confidence in the ability of|

the men in his division to fight Truman Policy Outlined and win against any odds; and| President Truman's foreign they usually did.” ” policy, from Potsdam to Taejon |} Hood's star was In ascéndancy and beyond, is the subject of a until it fell to him, not uninvited, new . book, “Truman, Stalin and |to take over the command of Gen. Peace,” by Albert Z. Carr. Origi4 Joseph E. Johnston at the mostinally scheduled for Oct. 26, the jerucial period in Sherman's book’s publication date has been imarch through Georgia. The odds advanced by Doubleday to Sept. 7. (were insurmountable, but he ——— ee “Itought “a Tosirg battle with Blind * or {optimism and not a few mistakes.

Ethel peace we must prepare for war. many is more likely to take up| her 37th novel in a 35-year (Later Denounced

Hueston has written He was later denounced for the "The Family Takes a Wife," disastrous Tennessee campaign, Mrs. Hueston's latest book is a yet, time and again his failures

pL . TY were due more .to bad breaks recent Bobbs-Merrill publication. ian to ineptitude.

terms the pact not only a great! defensive . measure, but also a!

‘and diplomatist, wrote “Peace By psychological stimulus to. thel[s Due Oct. 20

recovery of Europe.

eet Mr. Gelber writes in scholarly hovel, “Son of a Hundred Kings,” the world in a muddled stdte, he fashion. His conclusions are clear- will §

ly drawn from historical basis. |

light summer reading, but neither

is the war néws from Korea. [34 million copies. {

New Costain Novel moved to New Orleans, where he.

(Doubleday, will be the November|¢, tyne his wife, a daughter and| {selection - of the Literary Guild.|pis own life at the age of 48, | He-is- the author of six: previous ———————— ER books —which--have —sotd —mearty; oT i

After the war, Gen, Hood

Convenient Private

was successful in business and en-| . |joyed a happy life for a period of homas B. Costain, whose new 34°51 ¢5 years-Then yellow fever] i {struck him in 1879, the final cruel be published Oct.’ 20 bY pow of his careér-—he lost “his

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