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I Editorial Page Daily Cartoon ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH Sports Markets Society Wants 5S PART TWO PAGES 1 16B ST. LOUIS, TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1948 PULITZER PRIZE flW fiRDS FOR 1947; WHO'S WHO 013 WINNERS 4 Award for Mine Safety Campaign That Uncovered Laxity, Politics find Gambling With Workers' Lives Post-Dispatch Receives Prize For Public Service; Best Play by Tennessee Williams, Ex-St. Louisan Duplicate Awards on Reporting on National Affairs Go to Two Washington Correspondents Expose of Vote Irregularities Honored. 4l tf Post-Dispatch Inquiry into Shocking Condi 'J I tions That Contributed to 1 1 1 Deaths at Centralia, 111., Led to Indictments and Important Changes in Laws.

WARD to the Post-Dispatch of the Pulitzer Prize gold medal, given for "the most disinterested and meritorious public servica rendered by an American newspaper during the year 1947," was mm-. BERT ANDREWS Of the New York Herald Tribune, for a distinguished example of reporting on national affairs. NAT S. FINNEY Of the Minneapolis Tribune, for a distinguished example of reporting national affairs. PAUL W.

WARD Of the Baltimore Sun. for a distinguished example of reporting on international affairs. TENNESSEE WILLIAMS Former St. Louisan, for "A Streetcar Named Desire," an original American play. By a Staff Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch.

NEW YORK, May 4. THE ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in journalism yesterday for "the most disinterested and meritorious public service rendered by an American newspaper during the year 1947." The award was for the coverage of the Centralia (111.) mine disaster, in which 111 miners lost their lives, and "the follow-up which resulted in impressive reforms in mine safety laws and regulations." in recognition of this newspaper's efforts to change existing conditions in coal mines, with a view of saving lives of miners in the future, after the Centralia, 111., disaster in which 111 miners lost their lives. This is the third time the Post-Dispatch has received the public service award. Previous awards were for exposing wholesale fraudulent vote registration in St.

Louis in 193G, and for a successful campaign in 1940 to eliminate smoke in St. Louis. ,11 XL A full record, in portfolio form, fl MEMBERS OF ADVISORY The award is. one of those made I annually in journalism, letters and music by the, trustees of Columbia University on recommendation of I the advisory board of the Colum- bia's Graduate School of Journal- ism. The award to the Post-Dispatch i BOARD IN SELECTION i 'J' -fix 's OF FULITZER AWARDS 'mm IE PULITZER PRIZES Tn ire awerded by the trurtees if Columbia University VIRGINIUS DABNEY WALTER PISTON For "Symphony No.

3," a distinguished composition of music. Of the Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch, for distinguished editorial Writing. of the Post-Dispatch's presentation of the facta developed by t'tis newspaper after the Centinlia disaster was furnished last January to the Advisory Board of the School of Journalism, Columbia University, New York City, which is the committee of award for the Pultizer Prizes. SH'elul Edition Issued. Besides the day-to-day stories, editorials, editorial cartoons and news photographs, the portfolio contained a copy of a special 24-page edition of the Post-Dirpatch devoted entirely to the news, editorial and pictorial publication of the Centralia story.

This special edition, printed on the rotogravure presses, was distributed without charge throughout the mine fields of Illinois. Copies were sent to members of the Illinois Legislature, the Illinois Department of Mines and Minerals, to other Illinois state officials, to the members of the United States Bureau of Mines, and to United States Senators and Congressmen. Approximately 60,000 copies were distributed. The purpose of this special edition was to Inform residents of thu mining communities of Illinois of all the facts developed by the Post-Dispairch and boards of (New York City) on recommendation of the advisory board of the Pulitzer School of Journalism. Members of the advisory board are: Dr.

Frank D. Fackenthal, acting president of the university; Sevellon Brown of the Providence (R.I.) Journal; Robert Choate of the Boston Herald; Kent Cooper, executive, director of the Associated Press; Gardner Cowles of the Des Moines (la.) Register and Tribune; Palmer Hoyt, publisher of the Denver Post; Frank R. Kent of the Baltimore Sun; John S. Knight, publisher of the Chicngo Daily News ar.d other Knight newspapers; Arthur Kmc It of the New York Times; William R. Mathews of the Arizona Daily f'tar, of Tucson; Stuart H.

Porry of the Adrian (Mich.) Telegram; Harold S. Pollard of the New York World Telegram and Joseph Pulitzer, editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and son of the founder of the prlr.es. Dean Carl W. Ackerman of the School of Journalism serves as secretary of the board.

1 v- -iff 1 was a $500 gold medal. Each of the individual prizes carries an award of $500. It was the thirty-llrst year of awarding the prizes. In the field of letters, a former St. Louisan, Tennessee Williams, was awarded a prize for his play, "A Streetcar Named Desire," a current Broadway success.

Duplicate J'rlzrs on Reporting. The prize "for a distinguished example of reporting on national affairs' in a daily newspaper was awarded in duplicate this year. Bert Andrews, chief Washington correspondent of the New York Herald Tribune, 8nd Nat S. Finney, of the Washington staff of the Minneapolis Tribune, were awarded $500 each. Andrews, chief of the Herald Tribune Washington staff since 3911, produced a documented eries of stories exposing sum-mary State Department dlnmis-nls for reasons of "security" although employes thus discharged were not informed why their loyalty or discretion was doubted.

The series, published in the Post-Dispatch, resulted in drastic policy changes. The same articles brought Andrews the 1C47 Heywood Broun award of the American Newspaper Guild. Previously, for other accomplishments he had received the Raymond Clapper Memorial ward and a honorarium from the National Hcadliners Club for coverage of domestic news. Censorship Expose. Wins.

Finney, a member of the Washington bureau of the Minneapolis Star and Tribune since 1941, joined the list rf Pulitzer Prize winners through his stories exposing White House plans to censor routine affairs of civilian agencies during Pulitzer Prize Winners rllE following are the winners of the Pulitzer Prize awards for journalism and letters in TIIK ST. LOUIS l'OST-OlSFATCH For the most disinterested and meritorious public service rendered by an American newspaper. IIKP.T AMIHKVVS Of the New York Herald Tribune. and NAT S. FINNEY Of the Minneapolis Tribune.

For a distinguished example of reporting on national affairs (two awards). PAUL W. WARD Of the Baltimore Sun. For a distinguished example of reporting on international affairs. f.KOUGK K.

GOODWIN Of llm Athtnta (Ga.) Journal. For a dlHtlngulshed example of local reporting. VIRGINIUS DABNEY Of the F.ichmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch. For distinguished editorial writing. REUBEN L.

GOLDBERG Of the New York Sun. For a distinguished example of a cartoonist's work. FRANK CUSHING Of the Boston Traveler. For an outstanding example of news photography. "A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE" By Tennessee Williams, For an original American play.

"TALES OF THE SOUTH-PACIFIC" By James A. Michener. For a distinguished novel published during the year by an American author. "ACROSS THE WIDE MISSOURI" By Bernard de Voto. For a distinguished book of history of the United States.

7 cm it mi v. 1i it lull inquiry after the Centralia disaster and to impress on state and federal officials the necessity of inaugurating safety provisions in coal mining operations which W. H. AUDEN For "The Age of Anxiety." a distinguished volume of verse. REUBEN L.

GOLDBERG Of the New York Sun, for a distinguished example of a cartoonist's work (center). "PEACE TODAY" Prize-winning cartoon by Reuben L. Goldberg which appeared in the New York Sun on July 22, 1947. would make Impossible a repetition of the Centralia disaster. The explosion in the Centralia mine occurred on March 25, 1947.

Six days before, on March 19, the Pont-Dinpnteh disclosed that the Illinois Department of Mines and Minerals was "shaking down" coal mine operators to raise funds for the Republican mayoral cam Ian gave the Post-Dispatch a detailed account of the Mine Department's inner workings and of the way in which his superiors had nullified his efforts to enforce the laws. The 4nspoctor, who subsequently resigned in disgust because of the political set-up, asserted that Medill had been more interested paign in Chicago. The shaltedown was conducted through state Inspectors who ruled on compliance with state mining regulations. In theory the campaign contributions were voluntary, but actually considerable pressure was applied, yvr L- 'Wlk rat with inspectors sent out by Mines Director Robert M. Med ill not only soliciting donations but also "suggesting" how much each mine owner should give.

Shocking Laxity Disclosed. After the explosion, investigation by the Post-Dispatch disclosed a shocking laxity of law postwar administration. His caustic articles attracted national attention. Contemplated restrictions on issuance of information were not officially imposed. Finney's stories also won him the Raymond Clapper award.

Tennessee Williams's hit, "A Streetcar Named Desire," also won the New York Drama Critics' Circle prize for 1947. It deals with the degeneration of a neurotic girl in New Orleans. The name derives from the fact that there JAMES MICHENER For "Tales of the South-Pacific," a distinguished novel published in 1947 by an American author. BERNARD DE VOTO For "Across the Wide Missouri," a distinguished book of history of the United States. FRANK CUSHING Of the Boston Traveler, for an outstanding example of news photography.

GEORGE E. GOODWIN Of the Atlanta Journal, for a distinguished example of local reporting. MARGARET CLAPP For "Forgotten First Citizen: John Bige-low," a distinguished American biography. "FORGOTTEN FIRST CITI 2 PHOTOGRAPHERS ZEN: JOHN BIGELOW" By Margaret Clapp. For a distinguished Amerl can biography.

"THE AGE OF ANXIETY" By W. II. Auden. BERNARD DE VOTO 'VERY HAPPY' TO GET PRIZE: IT'S HIS FIRST SPURNED RIDE TO PRIZE-SHOT SCENE enforcement for which these very inspectors were responsible. The investigation disclosed that Medill had failed to make the Centralia Coal owner of the mine, eliminate obvious hazards barred by the Illinois Mining Code, and that he had expressed displeasure over persistent complaints about the mine filed by Inspector Drlscoll Scania who had consistently refused to participate in the political shakedown.

Biographical Sketches of Hward Recipients in Journalism, Letters Comic Cartoonist Who Turned Serious Gets For a distinguished volume In obtaining campaign funds from mine owners than in enforcing safely regulations. He accused his boss of having shown favor-tism to the operators. In Chicago the Post-Dispatch established that Medill owed his appointment to the operators who. through their state association, had nominated him for the directorship of the department. Four Important Results.

The day after Scanlan's story was published In the Post-Dispatch, Medill resigned "for the good of the service." Due to the disclosures of the" Post-Dispatch end its editorials, the following results have been noted to date: 1. A new Illinois law gives mine Inspectors Indefinite tenure Instead of a two-year term, transfers the appointive power from the Governor to the State Mining Board, "and directs that inspectors be selected solely on the basis of grades made In competitive examinations. Properly administered, this law would have the effect of taking mine inspectors out of politics. 2. A state law has been enacted making it a felony for a mine Inspector or any higher-up In the Department of Mines and Minerals to solicit a contribution of (Picture In Everyday Magazine.) Bernard de Voto, whose "Across he Wide Missouri" won the 1947 of verse.

"SYMPHONY No. 3" By Walter Piston. Biwclnl to the Post-DIjath. Pulitzer Prize for a distinguished BOSTON, May 4 Frank Cush For a distinguished compo book of history of the United States, said today that he was sition of music. Award Biography Writer Wins on Her First Published Work.

'very happy to get it." De oto, a guest of Mr. and Mrs. ing probably was glad today that photographers from two other Boston papers didn't accept his generous offer last year of rides to a scene of a possible news photograph. Cushing, a photographer for the Boston Traveler, received a $500 Pulitzer Prize yestarday for a pic A staff of seven reporters was assigned to investigate the many ramifications in the mine situationIn the mine fields, at Springfield, 111., in the Bureau of Mines at Washington, and at Chicago. They signally successful in getting behind the news and exposing the appalling conditions included "Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow," by Margaret Clapp.

Selected as a "distinguished Amer Alvin D. Goldman, 2 Oak Knoll, Clayton, addressed the annual dinner meeting of the Missouri Historical Society at Hotel Chase Friday night. He was to return to is a streetcar line in New Orleans named "Desire." (Since the play opened, the New Orleans council has replaced the streetcars with busses. It was merely being practical, the council explained busses are easier to operate in the narrow French Quarter streets.) For "a distinguished example of local reporting, the test being accuracy and terseness," George E. Goodwin received $500 for his exposure of the Telfair county (Ga.) vote fraud, published in the Atlanta Journal.

The newspaper devoted virtually the complete first page to his account of the frauds. Inside pages were filled with details of how forces of the late Eugene Talmadge sought to "steal" victory In the general election of Nov. 5, 1916, for Hermnn Talmadge, Eugene's son. Goodwin devoted weeks of investigation to his stories on the frauds. Common Man in Russia.

The $500 Pulitzer Prize for distinguished reporting on international affairs went to Paul W. Ward of the Baltimore Sun. When assigned to the Moscow conference of foreign ministers discussing German and Austrian peace A' YORK, May 4 OLLOW1NG are sketches of the winners of the Pulitzer Prize ican biography or autobiography his home in Cambridge, late teaching patriotic and unseinsn service to the people, illustrated awards announced yesterday: ture he made at that news scene today. hv on eminent example," it was He learned of the award yes the author's firBt book. Written her permanent home, she was graduated from Wellesley College in 1930.

which jeopardized the lives of men rwho went down Into nearly ever coal mine In the State of Illinois. They uncovered evidence of gross negligence on the part of Medill and of some operators of Reuben (Rube) Goldberg two years ago for her doctor's thesis, it recounts the career of the terday, he said, In a telegram forwarded from his home. This is the first major prize he has received, he added. any kind from operator, miner little-known diplomat and histo rian of the Civil War era. Now teaching American history covering the periods from 1876 to the outbreak of World War I and also the contemporary era, she s.nid she wns "looking about at Yesvterday De Voto inspected the James A.

Michcner's "Tales of riverfront memorial site, visiting or union, with a penalty for violation of one year's imprisonment and a fine ranging from $1000 to J5000. the South Pacific," was Judged the the Old Courthouse and Old Cathe most distinguished piece of fiction dral and seeing plans and draw various subjects for a second book." published during 1947. It was ings of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial. He is a mem based on Michcner's experiences in a photograph of a boy gunman holding a revolver against another boy and daring the police to come and get him. Cushing was on assignment involving a $5000 restaurant holdup when he heard a radio call for police cars to go to Roxbury, a suburb, where a 15-year-old boy had held up a store.

He offered rides to the scene to photographers from two other papers but they declined. Cushing made his prize winning picture from the second floor of a nenr-by house, by crawling on the roof. Cushing's picture was printed in 500 newspapers and won for him first prize in a 1947 contest of the New England members and managing editors of the Associated Press. the Pacific during the war. Tennessee Williams ber of the Advisory Board on National Parks, Historic Sites, Buildings and Monuntfvnts.

I) Voto's Book on History. the ines and their managers. In its campaign of exposure of conditions in the mine fields, the Post-Dispatch emphasized what it regarded as four necessary changes: 1. Take mine inspectors out of polities. 2.

Outlaw political rnntrllu (tons by Illinois coal eoiupitiile Kinl all other corporal Ions. 3. Make failure to comply with state safety laws a felony. 4. Bring the guilty to justice.

The Post-Dispatch obtained and published copies of letters written In his 41-year career as an srtist, the versatile Rube Goldberg, politicnl cartoonist for the New York Sun, has won widn notice as a humorist. He joined the Sun more than 10 years ago end has been its political cartoonist since 1938. He had studied mining engineering at the Unl- entity of Southern California where he gained Ideas for freiilt contraptions used in his comic sketches. Reuben Lucius Goldberg was born in San Francisco on July 4, 1883, a son of Max and Hannah Goldberg. At the age of 12 he Studied art from a sign painter lirrniird tin Voto's "Across the Williams has known the, lot of Wide MldKout 1" -wns awarded the "It looks flue," he snld.

"The sooner they run get It through, the better." the. struggling dramatist before he prize for the most distinguished book of history about the United achieved recognition. States which had been published ton bureau, marks the third time Williams was born in Columbus, March 26, 1914. He studied at the University of Missouri, Washington University and the in the last year. It deals with Rocky Mountain fur traders in the this year Andrews has been honored for distinguished reporting 1830s.

It is De Voto's third book terms, Ward spent leisure hours invest latlng the common man of the Soviet Union. He returned with uncensored notes to the United States and the Baltimore Sun published his informative articles entitled: "Life in the Soviet Union." Virginius Dabney received the prize of $500 for editorials In the Richmond (Vaj Times-Dispatch, of which he is editor, dealing with the race problem, particularly segregation. He opposed the poll tax and urged repeal of segregation on public transit lines. The test for a Pulitzer award in this from the nation's capital. of a series on American develop' ment periods.

University of Iowa. His first play to reach Broad' W. II. Auden was given the way, "The Glass Menagerie," won the. New York Drama Critics' by Medill, Scanlan and William P.

Young, operating head of the Centralia Coal Co. These showed that while the Inspector had emphasized the danger of a dust explosion in the mine, his repeated complaints had been shrugged off SHIFTING GRADUATION DATE He won the Pulitzer Prize for his articles reporting the State Department's practices in dismissing Us employes for security reasons. On Feb. 12, for his reporting of the same story, he received the Heywood Broun Memorial award, Clrrl prize In 1945. FOR TRUMAN SPEECH OPPOSED Five years earlier his "Battle for a year and a half.

He was a cartoonist on the San Francisco Chronicle in 1904 05, then with the liulletln them until 3907, when he began cartooning and sports writing for the New York Evening Mail. His syndicated cartoons, starting in 1921, were featured in more than 200 newspapers, but he never drew a of Angels" had failed In a Boston by Medill and Young, who corre BERKELEY, May 4 (AP) poetry prize for. his "Age of Anxiety," Judged the "most dls-tingulnhed volume of vero published during the year by an American author." The book is concerned with postwar confusion. The music prize was given to Walter Piston for his symphony No. 3, first performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra under tryout.

In the interval, Williams worked at odd jobs to stay alive Students protested yesterday while continuing to write. He got against changing the University of classification Is "clearness of style, moral purpose, sound reasoning, and power to influence public sponded on a "Dear Bill" and "Dear Bob" basis. "Please Save Our Lives." More than a year before the 3. While the State has not yet made failure to comply with State safety laws a felony it is now a misdemeanor a series of steps to tighten up regulations and make them more stringent have been taken. These include Inspection of mines three times as often as before (once a month Instead of every three months); expansion of the inspection force from 18 to 24 men; more exacting rock-dusting requirements; a bar on blasting while miners are underground; tightening of ventilation requirements; requirement that mine bosses pass examinations on safety methods; organization of three mobile rescue units.

4. The Centralia Coal Co. was indicted for willful neglect in failing to supply sufficient ventilation for its underground workers and failing adequately to rock-dust its mine. It pleaded nolo contendere and was fined $1000. Medill and his assistant, Robert Weir, are under indictment for palpable omission of duty in connection with the mine disaster and are now awaiting trial.

In the present session of Congress the important Landis Bill, which would give federal inspectors authority to close unsafe mines, will come tip for a vote. The last session of Congress passed a law calling on the Secretary of the Interior to make quarterly reports for a period of one year on conditions in the mines and the extent to which recommendations of federal inspectors were being followed by the mine owners, operators and state agencies. California commencement date to a job writing scripts lor tne accommodate President Truman. movies, lasted six months. opinion in what the writer con After the success of "The Glass The date was changed from ceives to be the right direction.

Centralia disaster the Centralia miners had written Gov. Dwight June 19 to June 12 so that the Menagerie, he obtained a pro Reuben (Rube) Goldberg. New duction for "You Touched Me," H. Green, begging him to "please save our lives" by making the President could deliver the commencement address. play he had written earlier in col sponsored by the CIO American Newspaper Guild.

He had received the Raymond Clapper award for the best Washington correspondence In 1945. On March 24 he won the Newspaper Guild of New York's front-page award for "distinguished Washington correspondence." Andrews was born in Colorado Springs, Colo. After three years at Stanford University, he joined the Sacramento Star, in California, in 1924. Before he joined the New York Herald Tribune in 1937, excepting for a five-month stint with Mine Department officials enforce laboration with Donald Windham "What is the sense of having a continuity and finally, in 1936, he gave up comic strips. He is the author of several humorous cartoon books, several of them presenting his zany "inventions." He was married in 1916 to the former Irma Seaman.

They have two sons, Thomas George, 29 years old, a painter, and George W. George, 28, a Hollywood scenario writer. the safety laws. Of the commit commencement in the middle of This play failed. Sergei Koussevitzky last January.

Piston is a full professor in the music department at Harvard University. I'hillp Anthony Moose, 27 years old, of New York received a traveling art scholarship worth $1500 because he was "certified as the most promising and deserving by the National Academy of Design." Awarded Annually Since 1917. Williams's next on Broadway tee of four who drafted this extraordinary plea, three died in the was "A Streetcar Named Desire." "Streetcar" is the second play in York Sun editorial cartoonist, received the prize in that group for his drawing entitled "Peace Today." He pictured an atomic bomb tilted precariously on the precipice of "world control." Perched unaware of pending calamity on the bomb, are the figures of a contented family, undisturbed by the danger of sliding to the black pit below, labeled "world Goldberg formerly was a comic cartoonist, noted for explosion. From the sole surviving member the Post-Dispatch ob history to win New York Drama tained a copy of the now famous final examinations?" asked one letter signed by 30 seniors and appearing in the Daily Californi-an, student newspaper. "We will graduate and then have to come back to study." "It appears that our commencement is being turned into a political track meet," wrote Charles R.

McDonald, another senior. letter which, investigation dis. closed, the Governor's office had The prizes were provided for Margaret Clapp merely passed on to Medill, the the Paris (France) Herald, Andrews had worked successively for the San Diego Sun, the Chicago Herald Examiner, the Detroit in the will of the late Joseph accused party. Medill had pooh. Pulitzer, former publisher of the St.

Louis Post-Dispatch and the Miss Clapp is an assistant pro Times and the New York Ameri poohed the complaint, contending that conditions in the mine were no different than they had been Critics Circle prize and Pulitzer award in the same year. Williams has sometimes been acclaimed as the most important new dramatist in the modern American theater. Before "Streetcar" was produced, another Williams play, "Summer and Smoke," received its first production in the Dallas, (Tex.) Theatre '47 last summer. At present Williams is continuing to write while on a visit to Italy. New York World.

Pulitzer, who fessor of history at Brooklyn College. The prize-winning biography also founded Columbia's graduate for 10 or 15 years and the plea school of Journalism, left the uni is her first published work. It can. He has been the Herald Tribune's chief Washington correspondent since 1941. Andrews is married and the father of two children.

was ignored. brought her a doctorate of philoso In an exclusive interview Scan- versity $2,500,000 for perpetuation of the awards and establishment phy a year before it was published the Washington bureau of the 1947 award for "outstanding Wash designing absurd contraptions. The Pulitzer Prize judges selected a photograph by Frank Cush-ing, of the Boston Traveler, as the outstanding news photograph of the year. Cushing, a gunner with the Twelfth Air Force during the war, managed to get pictures of a 15-year-old robber, using an innocent boy as a shield, exchanging shots with police. In the prize picture, the youth has a weapon at the back of a frightened, unwilling companion.

of the school. The awards were first given in 1917 and are made last summer. Miss Clapp has previously trav entries in each class for final consideration by the advisory board. The prize winners were announced by Dr. Frank Facken-thal, acting president of Columbia University, who received a scroll In recognition of his past services from the advisory board.

The board noted that Dr. Fack-enthal retires as acting president on June 7. He will be succeeded by Dwlght D. Elsenhower, former chief of staff of the Army. eled through much of the United States while teaching at several Nat S.

Finney Bert Andrews ington reporting." He was born in Stewartvllle, on October 10, 1903, 'and received a degree from the University of Minnesota in 1927. Finney began his newspaper Minneapolis Star and Tribune since 1941. His series of stories last year, of a federal executive order which would have drawn a curtain of secrecy about ordinary affairs of government civilian agencies in peacetime, has also won for him the Raymond Clapper annually for distinguished work in the fields of journalism, literature, music and art. The seven journalism categories were judged by 14 members of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, who nominated several schools, including New Jersey College for Women. 'In the war years she did special research for the British Broadcasting Corp.

Award of a Pulitzer Prize to Bert Andrews, chief of the New York Herald Tribune's Washing- A newspaperman for 22 years, Finney once was city editor of the Minneapolis Star and has been in Awards in the realm of letters A native of East Orange, N.J., Continued on Page 8, Column.