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...hard-drinking, writin', fightin' newspaperman is a creature of the past, a denizen of a simpler age, when "media" was just a word in Latin and penny-press barons waged ferocious circulation wars with gory headlines and salacious scoops. Everyone, that is, except people who know Tom Fitzpatrick of the Chicago Sun-Times. At 42, "Fitz" seems to be a character straight from the typewriters of Charles MacArthur and Ben Hecht, reporting, writing, drinking and brawling in the best Front Page tradition. "Yeah," he says. "I'm out of my time. I would have been great...
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...
Died. Daniel Fitzpatrick, 78, dean of U.S. editorial cartoonists, whose biting, broad-stroked drawings in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and other papers won him two Pulitzer Prizes; in St. Louis. "I made an awful lot of people plenty goddam mad at me," Fitzpatrick once said-but then he got mad at an awful lot of people. In 1926, he won his first Pulitzer for a drawing of a mountain of paper looming over two tiny tablets titled "The Laws of Moses and the Laws of Today"; his second came in 1955, when he showed Uncle Sam marching into...