Jeff Tedford wrote:
>I dismissed the Pulitzer committee when they refused/rescinded the award
>to Duke Ellington in 1969. At the time Ellington quipped: "I guess they
>didn't me to be famous at such a young age."
Am I the only reader who doesn't know what that was about? A quick check
of the New Grove failed to indicate any reference to a Pulitzer in their
section on Ellington, either as w/held or rescinded.
Walter Meyer