Word: fitzpatrick
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...JOAN FITZPATRICK BOCK Merritt Island...
Buckley's predecessor, Howard E. Fitzpatrick, who died last April, followed the lead of the Sheriffs preceding him by appearing at all Harvard Commencements attired in a top hat, morning coat, and striped pants with a sword and scabbard at the belt...
Stupid Bowlers. Fitzpatrick won his Pulitzer for a first-person, 1,500-word account of S.D.S. Weathermen on the rampage last fall in Chicago. "I got the story because I can run like a scared antelope when I have to," he says. "I ran five miles with those kids that night, and I kept up with them." After the running, he really had to pour on the steam, banging out some ten pages against a deadline only 40 minutes away, finishing so close to it that he did not even have a chance to read the story over...
Even without reworking his story, Fitzpatrick knew it was first-rate. In fact, an hour before he was notified that he had won a Pulitzer, he walked into the office of Sun-Times Editor Jim Hoge to announce: "If this contest isn't rigged, I think I'm going...
...Fitzpatrick, it was a long-delayed victory. A journalism major at Kent State, he switched to English when the chairman of the journalism department told him he could not write and would never make it as a reporter. For a long time, it seemed that the chairman was at least half right. As a cub reporter on the Toledo Blade in 1957, Fitzpatrick freelanced a story for a competing paper. He was fired. At his next job, in Lima, Ohio, he recalls that "I was writing a column in which I said that bowling was stupid and that bowlers were...