The Pittsburgh Press (December 16, 1941)
Ernie Pyle’s column starts again Friday!
In a world full to overflowing with grim and momentous events, we are glad to welcome back to this newspaper a columnist who is concerned more often than not with “the little things of life” – Ernie Pyle, the Roving Reporter.
Ernie isn’t all sweetness and light, by any means, as is well known to those who followed his memorable dispatches from London during the Battle of Britain. But his is the human touch.
Today he is in San Francisco. His experiences in the air raids and blackouts of London give him a splendid background for writing about the civil-defense preparations on the West Coast.
Ernie has been out of the paper for several months, because of his wife’s illness. She is convalescing now, and Ernie has hit the road again – a road that has taken him to England and Scotland, through Mexico and Central and South America, to Hawaii, to Alaska and the Bering Sea, through Canada, and into each of our own 48 states.
His first column will appear Friday in The Press – exclusively!