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Ernie Pyle, On the Level; Bio Chronicles WWII's Common Man

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19970625
Author:Jonathan Yardley

ERNIE PYLE'S WAR America's Eyewitness to World War II By James Tobin Free Press. 312 pp. $25 Cut away everything else about journalism, and what you're left with is its inescapable evanescence. Here today, gone tomorrow. Not merely is today's hot story tomorrow's fish wrapper, but the person who wrote it isn't going to hang around in our memories much longer than the fish odor lingers in our nostrils. We like to think that we're forever, but the humbling truth is that we're forgotten faster than you can say "Richard Harding Davis" or "Anne O'Hare McCormick" or "Arthur Krock."

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