Word: hometowns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Count Felix von Luclcner, 58, famed "Sea Devil" scourge of Allied shipping in World War I, turned up behind the western front, trying to save his hometown, Halle, from Major General Terry Allen's attack. Previously reported as 1) an active Nazi and 2) in the party's bad graces because of his friendship for America, he exclaimed: "By Jove! I haven't been so happy since I ran the British blockade of 1916!" But General Allen's only terms were unconditional surrender, and three days later Halle fell...
Others could do the headquarters reporting, but his kind of copy, the artfully simple "hometown name-&-address stuff" about U.S. fighting men, compelled him to be up front. "War to an individual is hardly ever bigger than a hundred yards on each side of him," Pyle wrote. That 200 yards was his beat. In articles home to 393 daily and 297 weekly newspapers (total daily circulation: 13,390,144) Ernie Pyle covered that 200-yard view, its terrors, fatigues, laughs and heroism, more vividly and more simply than any other U.S. reporter. After 29 months of it, he wrote from...
...Some 90 Army, Navy and Marine combat correspondents, to write "Joe Blow biographies" for hometown newspapers...
...white elephant. His technique, with hotels less lively than the Stevens, has been to humanize them according to Hilton standards, to free them of the dead, half-lit, intimate air. His chief bid is for freer-spending transients; Hilton hotels do not go after the trade of the hometown folks...
...feel like talking, you will find easy chairs where you can read our magazines or your own hometown newspapers-desks where you can write your letters home-things to look at in the way of maps and photographs and a miniature March of Time movie and other news displays...