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April 15, 190 3C ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH In Journalism Letters 1980 Pulitzer Prise Compiled From Newt Service NEW YORK The Philadelphia Inquirer won its sixth straight Pulitzer Prize and the Boston Globe won three separate awards as the 1980 Pulitzer Prizes were announced yesterday. The Inquirer won in the category of general local reporting. The Pulitzer Prize Board cited the paper for Its coverage of the accident just over a year ago at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant near Harrisburg, Pa. The Globe won a special local reporting prize, along with awards in the categories of commentary and The Gannett News Service won the public service award for its series on the financial contributions to the Pauline Fathers.

The service was cited for its journalistic resources, including editorials, cartoons and photographs. The committee said the three Gannett reporters John M. Hanchette, William F. Schmick and Carlton Sherwood, all Roman Catholics told how "donors were misled and funds squandered, how criminal elements became involved in church fund-raising and how eventually the church confronted its mispractices and began to make amends." The Gannett News Service provides national and regional news to the 82 daily papers owned by Gannett the largest newspaper group in the nation as well as to most of the firm's 20 radio and TV stations. Based in Washington, where a staff of about 50 is employed, the news service also includes 13 state bureaus.

Bette Swenson Orsini and Charles Stafford of the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times won the national reporting award for their investigation of the Church of Scientology. The paper's investigation of the church had been nominated in the public service award, but the board moved it to the national reporting category. The prize for international reporting went to Joel Brinkley, a reporter, and Jay Mather, a photographer, of the Louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal, for their stories from Cambodia. Robert L.

Bartley, of the Wall Street Journal, won the editorial writing award. The editorial cartooning prize went to Don Wright of the Miami News. A photograph, "Firing Squad in Iran," submitted in the contest by United Press International and taken by a photographer whose name was not disclosed, won the spot news award. His name was withheld for his own safety. Erwin H.

Hagler of the Dallas Times Herald won the award in feature photography for a series on the Western Cowboy. Stephen A. Kurkjian, Alexander B. Hawes Nils Bruzelius, Joan Vennochl and Robert Porterfield of the Boston Globe received the special local reporting prize for their series on Boston's transit system. Ellen H.

Goodman of the Globe was cited in the commentary category and William A. Henry III of the Globe won the criticism award. Madeleine Blais of the Miami Herald won in the feature writing category. The Inquirer has won more consecutive Pulitzers than any other paper except the New York Times, which won nine awards in eight straight years, from 1940 through 1947. The prizes, established by the late Joseph Pulitzer, publisher of the St.

Louis Post-Dispatch and the old New York World, were first awarded in 1917. Individual winners receive $1,000 and the recipient of the public service award gets a jgold medal. There was a record total of 1,082 entries in the journalism category this year. There were a total of 1,550 entries in both the journalism and letters and drama categories. Also nominated by the Pulitzer Prize jurors for, the public service award were: the Miami Herald, for disclosures of medical incompetence, malfeasance and abuse, and also for a series on police brutality; and the Philadelphia Inquirer for a series on toxic waste.

Also nominated for the general local reporting prize was the staff of the Chicago Tribune for its coverage of the worst air crash in history and of the 1979 blizzard; and the staff of the Greensboro (N.C.) Daily News for coverage of a shootout at an anti-Ku Klux Klan rally. Also nominated for the special local reporting prize were Carole E. Agus, Andrew V. Fetherston Jr. and Frederick J.

Tuccillo of Newsday for their investigation of a Long Island sewer scandal. Also, Judy Grande and Brian Gallagher of the Nyack (N.Y.) Journal-News for an investigation of the handling of local murders; Charles R. Cook and James S. Carlton of the Port Arthur (Texas) News for an expose of shoddy waste-disposal This August 1979 photo of an executing nine Kurdish rebels and practices; and Lewis M. Simons and Ron Shaffer of the Washington Post for a series on fraud in a large, black self-help program.

Also nominated for national reporting were: Joseph P. Albright, national correspondent for the Cox Newspapers, for a series on energy; George Anthan, of the Washington bureau of the Des Moinai (Iowa) Register, for a series on disappearing farmland; and the Los Angeles Times staff for a series on chemicals in the environment, entitled "Poisoning of America." Also nominated for their international reporting were: Peter Amett of the Associated Press for his stories on the world's homeless; Fox Butterfield of the New York Times, for dispatches from China and the staff of the Los Angeles Times for their coverage of Iran. Winning Playwright Draws On Missouri get your footing again and you say. 'Wait a minute. We didn't do this for the hullaballoo.

We did it to tell a wonderful story. Nothing good will happen to us if we don't keep the play under control." Wilson, who was 43 years old on April 13, had been confident of his craft for some time. Several years ago he recalled his early days in New York with other playwrights, then also unknown, such as Sam Shepard and Terrence McNally. "We would sit around talking about theater all night long in some cafe." he said, "and every time, before we would leave, someone would say, 'Does this remind you of Van Gogh and Monet sitting We always knew that the talent was there." Wilson left Lebanon, at age 5 when his parents separated. He lived Lanford Wilson, who won the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for drama for his play "Talley's Folly," was born in 1937 in Lebanon, 20 miles south of the Lake of the Ozarks, but he left Missouri when he was 18.

"When I came to New York in 1963, 1 immediately forgot my Missouri background, for there was all this new social stimulus," Wilson said in an interview last year. "My early plays reflect that first awareness of an entire social scene that I had no idea about before. "But that eventually wore off. Now I think the influences of my youth are becoming stronger and stronger in my writing." The setting of "Talley's Folly" an old boathouse on a farm near Lebanon in July 1944 is a long way from Wilson's earlier commercially Iranian government firing squad two police officers after the shah Also nominated for editorial writing John Alexander of the Greensboro (N.C.) Daily News; Alfred Ames and Joan Beck of the Chicago Tribune; Bruce C. Davidson, Thomas N.

Oliphant and Anne C. Wyman of the Boston Globe; and Tom Dearmore of the San Francisco Examiner. Also nominated for editorial cartooning were Richard Locher of the Chicago Tribune, and Paul Szep of the Boston Globe. Also nominated for spot news photography were: Robert L. Gay of the Charleston (W.

Va.) Daily Mail, for a series on a crazed veteran and a church full of hostages; and Michael Haering of the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, for a picture of a girl struck by a car during a street demonstration in Beverly Hills. Also nominated in the feature photography class were: David A. yszak of the Detroit News for a with his mother in Springfield and later in Ozark. After finishing high school in 1955, Wilson hitchhiked to St. Louis to look for a job.

Lonely and depressed, he left after just two weeks. In San Diego, with his father, Wilson studied drawing but also took his first English course at San Diego State College. He then moved to Chicago, where he worked in the art department of an advertising agency. It was there in 1958 that he wrote his first play In 1958 during his lunch periods. Wilson says that "Talley's Folly" is the second part of a five-play series, all set at the Lebanon farmhouse at different periods.

The first was called "The 5th of July," and included as characters Vietnam veterans and descendants of the farm's original occupants. David del Tredici St. Louis premiere audience at Powell Hall in February that his infatuation with the "Alice in Wonderland" tales went back to when he was 11 years old and played the White Rabbit in a school play. The Post-Dispatch review of the premiere called "Summer Day" a "skillfully made, ingratiating work" that was received warmly by the audience. It lasts a little more than an Powell Premiere For Music Winner upi photography prize for United Press Recipients The winners of the Pulitzer Prizes for journalism and letters in 1979: THE GANNETT NEWS SERVICE For distinguished and meritorious public service rendered by a United States newspaper.

THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER For a distinguished example of general local reporting. STEPHEN A. KURKJIAN, ALEXANDER B. HAWES NILS BRUZELIUS, JOAN VENNOCHI AND ROBERT PORTERFIELD Of the Boston Globe For a distinguished example of special local reporting. BETTE SWENSON ORSINI AND CHARLES STAFFORD Of the St.

Petersburg (Fla.) Times For a distinguished example of national reporting. JOEL BRINKLEY AND JAY MATHER Of the Louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal For a distinguished example of international reporting. MADELEINE BLAIS Of the Miami Herald For a distinguished example of feature writing ROBERT L. BARTLEY Of the Wall Stret Journal For distinguished examples of editorial writing. DON WRIGHT Of the Miami News For a distinguished example of editorial cartooning.

UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL (Photographer anonymous) For a distinguished example of spot news photography. ERWIN H. HAGLER Of the Dallas Times Herald For a distinguished example of feature photography. ELLEN H. GOODMAN Of the Boston Globe For a distinguished example of commentary.

WILLIAM A. HENRY III Of the Boston Globe For a distinguished example of criticism. NORMAN MAILER For a distinguished example of fiction. LANFORD WILSON For a distinguished example of drama. LEON LITWACK For a distinguished example of historical writing.

EDMUND MORRIS For a distinguished example of biographical writing. DONALD ROONEY JUSTICE For a distinguished example of poetry. DOUGLAS HOFSTADTER For a distinguished example of general non-fiction. DAVID DEL TREDICI For a distinguished example of musical compostion. was deposed won the spot news International.

series on the children of Cambodia and John J. Sunderland of the Denver P6st for a series on living and dying in a hospice. Also nominated in the commentary category were: Richard Reeves of Universal Press Syndicate, and Carl T. Rowan of the Chicago Sun-Times and the Sun-Times Syndicate. Also nominated in the criticism category were: William C.

Glackin of the Sacramento (Calif.) Bee, and William K. Robertson of the Miami Herald. Also nominated for feature writing were: Bonnie M. Anderson of the Miami Herald, for an article entitled "Execution of My Father;" John R. Camp of the St.

Paul Pioneer Press, for a series on Indians; and Saul Pett of the Associated Press for an article on the snail darter, the small fish whose threatened existence led to the halt of the Tellico dam in Tennessee. Roots Lanford Wilson Former Mssouran hour and consists basically of two long orchestra-accompanied arias for the soprano, separated by an elaborate march-like episode for the large orchestra. Slatkin said Monday that he was "very grateful that we were able to commission a work the Pulitzer Prize Committee has chosen to honor." He added that he felt the prize reflected appreciation of "Final Alice" as well as "Summer Day," although the award covered only music first performed between March 16, 1979, and March 15, 1980. David Hyslop, executive director of the St. Louis Symphony, said the prize "reaffirms the Symphony's commitment to outstanding talents in th(United States, and continues the spirit of celebration in our centennial year." Del Tredici is 43 years old.

He was born in Cloverdale, and studied composition at the University of California at Berkeley, and at Princeton (N.J.) University. He lives in New York. Del Tredici said today that he was delighted to have the prize and hoped it would encourage other orchestras to perform "In Memory of a Summer Day." "It's so long, you know, and symphony organizations are afraid of long pieces," he said. Mailer's novel bested "The Ghost Writer" by Philip Roth and "Birdy" by William Wharton. Other runners-up in the arts categories were: History, "The Urban Crucible" by Gary B.

Nash and "The Plains Across" by John B. Unruh. Biography, "Bernard Berenson, the Making of a Connoisseur" by Ernest Safhuels, "Being Bernard Berenson" by Meryle Secrest and "The Duke of Deception" by Geoffrey Wolff. General Non-Fiction, "The Madwoman in the Attic" by Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, and "The Medusa and the Snail" by Lewis Thomas.

1 Music, "Quintets for Orchestra" by Lukas Foss, premiered by the Cleveland Orchestra, and "After the Butterfly" by Morton Subotnick, as performed at the Los Angeles County Museum. No other plays were submitted by the nominating jury in that category. successful play, "Hot I Baltimore." "Hot was set in the lobby of a derelict hotel marked for demolition with the action revolving around the dreams and illusions of the soon-to-be evicted tenants. The play took its unsual name from the hotel's neon sign, in which the letter 'e' was bumed out. But "Talley's Folly" six years later is a 94-minute, two-character "waltz" about the courtship between a rural Missouri girl and a St.

Louis accountant. When "Talley's Folly" opened in New York a year ago, with popular television actor Judd Hirsch in the lead, critic Walter Kerr called it "a lovely play, a treasure." Wilson later talked about the enthusiastic reception. "For about a week, the response swept us utterly off our feet. Then you tjkk. Llkm fed TDMWI1T HUMAN UFi! '-vv.

A By Frank Peters Poet-Diepatch Muelc Editor The 1980 Pulitzer Prize for musical composition went to a work that was commissioned by the St. Louis Symphony and had its premiere performances in Powell Hall. "In Memory of a Summer Day," by David del Tredici, was heard at the Symphony concerts of Feb. 23 and 24. The score is dedicated to Leonard Slatkin, music director of the Symphony.

Slatkin heard Del Tredici's "Final Alice" in its premiere with the Chicago Symphony In October 1976, liked it and phoned the St. Louis Symphony management to urge that the work be heard as soon as possible in St. Louis. In December 1977 Slatkin conducted the first uncut performance of "Final Alice" in Powell Hall. The commission for a new Del Tredici composition was made soon afterward, and the composer started work on "In Memory of a Summer Day" in 1978.

He completed the orchestration just a month before the St. Louis premiere. "Summer Day," like "Final Alice" and six other works that Del Tredici has composed since 1968, was inspired by the Lewis Carroll stories about Alice. The text of "Summer Day," sung by a soprano, is the prefatory poem to "Through the Looking-GIass," beginning, "Child of the pure unclouded brow Del Tredici told a lecture AP Dallas Times Herald Photographer Erwin H. "Skeeter" Hagler with some of his photos that won him a Pulitzer Prize for feature photography.

Novel Based On Fact Wins Prize For Fiction, sl I i uirnr nrakifaTliiW IUl'l AJfJ NEW YORK (AP) Norman Mailer won the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for fiction yesterday for "The Executioner's Song," the story of Utah convict Gary Gilmore and his execution by a firing squad. The author had won in 1969 in the non-fiction category for "Armies of the Night." Mailer and his publisher called the Gilmore book a work of fiction, but many critics considered it non-fiction since it tells the story of real people Involved in real events. "Talley's Folly," Lanford Wilson's romantic comedy about a Jewish accountant from St. Louis, won the prize for drama. In the field of history, the 1980 winner was Leon Litwack, professor of history at the University of California in Berkeley, for "Been in the Storm So Long," a study of the end of slavery from a slave's point of view.

"The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt," the first full history of the pre- presidential career of the nation's 26th chief executive, won the Pulitzer Prize in biography for Edmund Morris, a Kenya-born, British-educated American citizen. The prize for poetry was awarded to Donald Rodney Justice for his "Selected Poems," many drawn from earlier books. He is a professor of English at the University of Iowa. Douglas Hofstadter's "Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid," won the prize for general non-fiction. It was described as "a work of mathematical philosophy." "In Memory of a Summer Day," won the prize in music for David Del Tredici, a member of the music faculty of Boston University.

The work for solo soprano and orchestra was commissioned by the St. Louis Symphony for its 100th aniversary. This year, for the first time, the Pulitzer Prize board listed the other works recommended by the nominating juries in each category. it This is Don Wright's winning editorial cartoon for the Miami News..