Word: krock
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...blacks (one is the chairman, Roger Wilkins) and an Asian American, a response to past charges that it was an all-white, all-male establishmentarian club. Robert Christopher, secretary of the board, insists that the days are long past when someone like the legendary New York Times Columnist Arthur Krock could strong-arm members into awarding a prize to a young politician named John Kennedy. But the suspicion of closed-door politicking endures. "My impression is that there is a fair amount of horse trading," says an editor whose paper is not a frequent winner...
...being drafted," J.F.K. later told Columnist Bob Considine. "My father wanted his eldest son in politics. 'Wanted' isn't the right word. He demanded it." He also molded the Kennedy image by promoting J.F.K.'s essentially ghostwritten Profiles in Courage and having his friend New York Times Columnist Arthur Krock lobby the Pulitzer board of advisers. The book won a Pulitzer Prize...