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"3 I1. 11 '1 THE TENNtSSEAN, 1 unlay, April 14, 1981 Ex-Nashvillian Massie Wins Pulitzer OTHER LETTERS awards in-elude: drama, Beth Henley for Crimes of the Heart; histpiLaw-rence A. Cremin, for Amergm Education: The National Experience, 1783-1876; poetry, JameiSfiiyler, for The Morning of the fiWC general non-fiction, Carl ESchjjrske, for Fin-de-Siecle ViennirP6litics and Culture. I-l'S; writing, Janet Cooke, Washington Post, for the story of an 8-year-old heroin addict. The late John Kennedy Toole, who committed suicide at the age of 32 in 1969, won the fiction prize for his comic novel, A Confederacy of Dunces.

Toole's mother, Thelma, convinced novelist Walker Percy to read her son's book. Reluctantly he did, and was so pleased by the adventures of a "slob extraordinary" living in New Orleans that he urged the Louisiana State University Press to publish the book in 1980. The prizes in journalism and letters in each category a $1,000 cash award. TheQatd also awards a $1,000 prize forp distinguished musical composinp APRIL 19th if ill Bfit Ik U00f iff" tjjgll IS SUNDAY, from STAFF, WIRE REPORTS Robert K. Massie, a former iNashvillian, received the 1981 Pul-1tzer Prize in biography yesterday for his recent book Peter the Great: His Life and World.

Among the 65th Pulitzer Prizes I in journalism announced in New The Tennessean's series of articles on the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan took a second place tin the meritorious public service category. THE GOLD MEDAL in this cate-Ifory went to The Charlotte (N.C) i)bserver tor its series on govern-; went and industry failure to fight ''brown lung" disease in the na-; lion's textile mills, and tied for was the Long Beach (Calif.) Press-Telegraph for a series on un- Jiecessary deaths due to inadequate emergency room care in Los Ange-Jes County. "I've been writing about Russia, to I never expected to win a Pul-0 jtzer Prize," said Massie, 52, son of Mrs. James M. (Mollie) Todd of Nashville.

"I thought it usually to people who wrote about American subjects." Massie, who lives with his wife lhd three children in Irvington-Pn-Hudson, N.Y., has also written I two other books, one of which was into the 1971 movie of the title, Nicholas and Alezan-jlra, about Russia's last czar. The 'film was nominated for an Acade--jny Award. MASSIE, WHO HAS been a worked for Newsweek, Collier's Corsages for Easter Parade Beautiful Cymbidium Orchids lavender White Orchids $800 to 500 Carnation Corsages 250 and up Kiddie Corsages i 250 Plants 1 Robert K. Massie "1 never expected to and immigration, and the commentary prize went to Dave Anderson for his sports columns. The 15-member staff of the Long-view (Wash Daily News was awarded the Pultizer for distinguished general local reporting for coverage of the eruption of Mount St Helens.

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THE CHARLOTTE Observer won the gold medal for its 22-arti-cle series, "Brown Lung: A Case of Deadly Neglect," and eight editorials revealing the failure of government, industry and the medical profession to control byssinosis a disease caused by a cotton dust breathed by 115,000 textile workers. Other news awards include: editorial cartooning, Mike Peters, Dayton (Ohio) Daily News, for overall work; feature photography, Taro M. Yamasaki, Detroit Free Press, for pictures of the state prison at Jackson, criticism, Jonathan Yardley, Washington Star, for book reviews; feature Polish Officials Blames Rising Crime on Unrest WARSAW (AP) -The social and political turmoil of the past year may be a cause of rising crime in this normally law-abiding nation, Polish officials believe. The Increase is probably minimal by Western standards, but for Poles it is shocking. "We are now noting crimes that were not noted before or were happening only sporadically," Ta-deusz Rydzyk, director of the Warsaw police criminal bureau, was quoted in a front-page interview in the city's leading newspaper, Zycie Warszawy.

CHARGE 4 CONVENIENT WAYS! and the Saturday Evening Post and his wife, also an author, were among the featured guests at the 12th annual Nashville Book and Author Dinner here last October. The Tennessean articles that placed second in the public service category included both a series done by reporters Kirk Lcggins and Susan Thomas, regional correspondent Robert Dunnavant and photographer Nancy Warnecke as a result of interviews with Klan leaders and others throughout the country, and a more recent series by reporter Jerry Thompson, who joined the Klan under cover for a year and reported on its activities from the inside. The Pulitzer for Investigative re-porting was won by Clark Hallas and Robert B. Lowe of the Arizona Daily Star in Tucson, chosen from a record field of 159 entries. The pair uncovered 'activities in University of Arizona Athletic Department that led to the resignation of the head football coach and his indictment on 88 felony counts stemming from airline ticket fraud.

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