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...discount fares for his parents. Donnay racquets of Belgium, which is paying him around $600,000 a year plus a commission on each Borg model racquet sold, also must provide the star with the 30 or so $75 racquets he takes with him to tournaments. In Australia, he endorses Bancroft racquets for another $90,000 or so a year and all the racquets he can break. Fila, an Italian tenniswear firm, gives him approximately $500,000 a year and the shirtts on his back. VS Strings antes up more than $25,000 a year and lots of gut to keep...
...raised any questions about Genovese's scholarship. Numerous professors have called his work "excellent" and labelled him one of the top historians studying southern history. His book, Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made, won the Bancroft prize in 1975, and only last year Genovese served as president of the American Historical Association. Even members of the executive committee agree that his work and teaching are excellent...
...scholars studying the history of the south," Robert Fogel, a professor of history and economics, said Monday. Genovese won the Bancroft prize in '75 for his book on slavery in America, Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Madse, which was used in Harvard's sophomore history tutorial this year...
...free-lance journalist who received the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes for her account of the Vietnam War, "Fire in the Lake," Fitzgerald's latest book, "America Revised," explains how textbooks present American history...
That a scholar of this type could today be rejected by a committee seeking senior appointments in Afro-American Studies defies belief. That such rejection could today revolve around Professor Genovese's use of some Marxist analytical methods (though quite subdued if not invisible in his Bancroft Prize book, Roll, Jordan, Roll) and his interest in Socialist politics also defies belief. That this petty and obscene resort to McCarthyite use of ideological criteria for faculty appointments at Harvard, hardly a week after President Derek C. Bok issued his courageous and cogent memorandum denouncing such McCarthyite behavior in our universities...