Word: chandler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...award to Bate was not the only Pulitzer doled out to a Harvard professor, however. Alfred D. Chandler Jr. '40, Straus Professor of Business History, also walked off with a Pulitzer in history for his work, "The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business...
...Chandler, who spent 15 years researching the book, also won the Bancroft Award in History earlier this month for the work...
...tradition of Erie Stanley Gardner, many are lawyers, notably Harold Q. Masur (Bury Me Deep), Francis ("Mike") Nevins Jr. (Publish and Perish), Joe Hensley (A Killing in Gold), and, of course, Englishman Michael Gilbert, creator of the Patrick Petrella series and, be it noted, the author of Raymond Chandler's will. The remarkable P.D. James has a full-time job in the criminal division of Britain's Home Office. Other practitioners also work as journalists, critics, doctors and even perhaps as agents of the nonliterary kind...
...next several years. But the Times' 90-member metropolitan hard-news staff is already spread thin over the 464 square miles of the city of Los Angeles, and the paper was scooped by just about everybody on the biggest local story in years, the "Hollywoodgate" scandals. Otis Chandler, 50, Times publisher and vice chairman of the parent Times Mirror Co., asserts blandly: "We already sell more than 30,000 copies [in San Diego], so we're convinced there's a market for a daily paper of our high quality...
...Chandler has a point. Despite its flaws, the Times is one of the nation's most serious, best-reported dailies, and San Diegans could do worse for a new newspaper. But Chandler's urge to spread enlightenment is hardly the sole motive for marching southward. Times circulation dropped below the 1 million level last year, triggering alarms all over the block-long, dark brown granite and smoked-glass building where the $1.1 billion Times Mirror empire is headquartered. What is more, much of the paper's largely white, middle-class readership is apparently leaving town...