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...Other Pulitzer awards-Public Service: the Boston Globe for its campaign to prevent the confirmation of Francis X. Morrissey as federal judge; National Reporting: Haynes Johnson of the Washington Evening Star; International Reporting: Peter Arnett of the Associated Press; Local Reporting, special: John A. Frasca of the Tampa Tribune; Editorial Writing: Robert Lasch of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch; Cartoons: Don Wright of the Miami News; News Photography: Kyoichi Sawada of UPI; History: the late Perry Miller; Biography: Arthur Schlesinger Jr.; Fiction: Katherine Anne Porter; Poetry: Richard Eberhart; Nonfiction: Edwin Way Teale...
...knowledge of history oft strips the veneer from the upstart. Anent Teddy Kennedy's tear-jerking plea [Oct. 29] that the family of Judicial Nominee Frank Morrissey were so poor that their shoes were "held together with wooden pegs," he discloses his complete and puerile ignorance of skilled custom cobbling. For a long time, handcrafted shoes and boots had soles and heels secured by hardwood pegs. This produced a beautiful, unsewn appearance, and the pegs wore down commensurately with the leather, avoiding the damage to elegant floors and the skidding on sidewalks caused by nails that wear more slowly...
Harvey's lengthy report appeared in early October, with the first hint that Morrissey's membership in the Georgia Bar had been obtained through the endorsement of a questionable, two-man law college. Only twelve days later, Political Editor Bob Healy revealed the seeming conflict between Morrissey's 1934 stay in Georgia and the one-year residency requirement for his 1934 candidacy in a race for state representative in Massachusetts...
Healy kept at it, discovered that despite the story that Morrissey had studied law at Boston College, the school had no record of him, except briefly as a nonlaw night student. Last week, as the walls tumbled in on Frank Morrissey, the Globe was still diligently checking every aspect of his career-from his civil service job as a social worker to his graduation from Suffolk University Law School, and his seven years as municipal court judge...
...refutes the contention that the Globe's zeal is due to anti-Kennedy feelings. "We've been damn good to the Kennedys," says he. "This was not an anti-Ted effort. I can't think of a thing we haven't supported him on except Morrissey." It was the Globe, to be sure, that first broke the story about Ted's expulsion from Harvard for cheating. But, as Winship points out, the story had full Kennedy cooperation, was printed only after the editor told one of J.F.K.'s presidential aides: "I'm sick...