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...unanimous vote, the Pulitzer Advisory Board handed the "distinguished biography" award ($500) to William A. Swanberg's Citizen Hearst (Scribner; $7.50), a meticulously impartial study of the Hearst publishing empire's progenitor. Instead of ratifying the board's choice, however, trustees of New York's Columbia University chose to overrule it by awarding no biography prize...
...countermanding the board, the trustees were within their rights. By the letter of Joseph Pulitzer's will, which founded the annual prize contest, Swanberg's biography seems patently disqualified on subject matter alone: William Randolph Hearst was hardly noted for teaching "patriotic and unselfish services to the people." But if such literal considerations guided the trustees, they stood on shaky ground. They had, after all, endorsed the board's decision to bestow the drama prize on How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, a Broadway musical that for all its merits as a polished farce hardly...
...Citizen Hearst, Swanberg...
...Citizen Hearst, Swanberg...
...Citizen Hearst, Swanberg (4) 10. PT 109, Donovan...