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Award of the Pulitzer Prize for American History to Frank Luther Mott's "A History of American Magazines," Volumes II and III, announced yesterday, gave the Harvard University Press its first Pulitzer Prize and calls attention to the distinguished work the Press has been doing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Book Published by University Press Is Given Coveted Pulitzer History Prize | 5/2/1939 | See Source »

Professor Mott examines the founding and passing of the periodicals; the phenomenon of a shifting popular favor; tendencies in circulation, advertising, payment of authors and editors; costs of publication; and the development of class journals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Book Published by University Press Is Given Coveted Pulitzer History Prize | 5/2/1939 | See Source »

With humor and wit throughout. Professor Mott easily handles the thousand details and the prolonged research that has gone into the book, and puts forth a work that is at once scholarly and readable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Book Published by University Press Is Given Coveted Pulitzer History Prize | 5/2/1939 | See Source »

Veteran southpaw, Mee Jubitz heads a capable mound corps which includes Joe Wood, Bing Crosby, and Dick Ames. All of these boys are headed for stardom, and Freshman Ted Harrison is only biding his time until he can join them. Bill Poole and Tony Mott are the ranking catchers...

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: Yale, Princeton Appear Strong As EIL Loop Gets Under Way | 4/21/1939 | See Source »

...scarce as news of Chinese victories-today scarce indeed. U. S. sympathizers contributed more than $2,000,000 to Spain during its late war, but they have given much less to China; to the Church Committee for China Relief, only $268,709 since its founding last summer. John R. Mott, vice chairman of the Committee, declares that in China is "the greatest area and volume of relatively unrelieved human suffering of modern times"-30,000,000 people in need of the barest sustenance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: FOR CHINA | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

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