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Editorial Page Daily Cartoon Sports Markets 1 ST, LOUIS POST-DISPATCH PART TWO ST. LOUIS, TUESDAY, MAY 3, 1955 PAGES 1-10B PULITZER PRIZE AWARDS' FOR 1954; WHO'S WHO ON WINNERS Fitzpatrick of Post-Dispatch Vins for Second Time; Board Honors Late Joseph Pulitzer Dramatist and Composer Also Get Second Recognition Nobel Prize i --A S- SB fit -1 i i hv if ij m. it Novelist Honored Other Awards for Journalism; Letters. By a Staff Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch. NEW YORK, May 3.

DANIEL R. FITZPATRICK, veteran editorial cartoonist of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, received the Pulitzer Prize In journalism for the second time yesterday for contributing the most "distinguished example of a cartoonist's work in a United States newspaper" and In recognition of achievements throughout his long career. A former St. Louisan, Tennessee Williams, won the Pulitzer ward for the best play with his controversial drama, "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," a Broadway sellout.

The prize for distinguished fiction went to "A Fable" by William Faulkner. In music, another second-time winner was Gian-Carlo Menottl for "The Saint of Bleeckcr Street." Managing Editor JOHN IV. BLOOMER (right) and two of his col-leagues checking telegram informing them their paper, the Columbus (Ga.) Ledger and Sunday Ledger-Enquirer, had been awarded the 1954 Pulitzer Prize for disinterested and meritorious public service by a United States newspaper. Award was for news stories and editorials which led to clean-up of vice-ridden Phenix City, Ala. With Bloomer are ROBERT W.

BROWN (left), editor, and TOM SELLERS, reporter. i Resolution In Tribute to 'Mr. Pulitzer Memorial Says He Was Incapable of Sham and Special to the Post-Dispatch. NEW Mav 3. HE advisory board on Pu- HARRISON E.

SALISBURY (left) ot the New York Times was fcKVtf v. 'A 'r-V A 1 'X "-S I honored for his work in reporting international affairs; specifically, for li' 'ir'r' -hi jr -VVJ series ot articles. "Russia Re-Viewed," based on his six years as a -C -V; '4m '-f'rr' I Moscow correspondent. The award for editorial writing went to fliA V' ROYCE HOWES (right) of the Detroit Free Press for his analysis jf 'f-V- aior and management responsibilities in in unauthorized strike. V' ''5 -'1 Ilitzer Prizes yesterday made mihlit tUn Inllnunno frihntp to the late Joseph Pulitzer, editor and publisher of the Post- Dispatch: "Resolved, that the advisory board on the Pulitzer Prizes, havins noted with deeD and abiding sorrow the death of its riistinonishpd chairman.

JoscDh "if j' I imn' rmin wmnri? mitvf Pulitzer, a son ana namesaKe oi i the founder of these prizes, desires to express the following tribute to his character and The advisory board on Pulitzer Prizes, composed of outstanding editors and publishers, made public In an unusual procedure, a tribute to the late Joseph Pulitzer, editor and publisher of the Post-Dispatch, adopted shortly after his death, March 30. The" memorial, the text of which is published in an adjoining column, recalled that Pulitzer "hated cant, sham, injustice and corruption and was incapable of any of these." Other awards' in journalism Included: Mrs. Caro Brown of the Alice (Tex.) Daily Echo for a series of news stories dealing with the successful attack on one-man political rule in Duval county, Tex. The award was for local reporting, pressure of edition time being taken into consideration. Roland Kenneth Towery of the Cuero (Tex.) Record for his series of articles exclusively exposing a scandal in the administration of the Veterans land program in Texas.

The award was for local reporting, edition time not being considered a factor. Anthony Lewis of the Washington Daily News, the national reporting award for publishing a series of articles fringing about the restoration to' duty for Abraham Chasanow who had been dismissed from the Navy Department as a security risk. Harrison E. Salisbury of the New York Times, the international reporting award for his series of articles, "Russia Re-Viewed," based on his six years as a correspondent in Russia. The award for disinterested and meritorious public service by a newspaper was won by the Columbus (Ga.) Ledger and Sunday Ledger-Enquirer for its campaign against vice and corruption in Phenix City.

just across the state line from Columbus. Award for Editorial. The Detroit Free Press, the editorial writing award for an editorial by Royce Howes impartially and clearly analyzing the responsibility of both labor and management for a local union's unauthorized stoke last July. Entitled "The Cause of a Strike," it analyzed responsibilities of labor and management in a strike last July which made idle 45,000 Chrysler Corporation workers. John L.

Gaunt Jr. of the Los Angeles Times, the news photography award for a picture entitled "Tragedy in the Surf narents standing career, for inclusion in the hoard's cermanent. record and for transmission to the Pulitzer family: "Joseph Pulitzer, the late editor anri nuhlishpr of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, inherited a I gredt newspaper tradition. This he steadily enhanced throughout I his professional-career, elevating and protecting the standards of publication implicitly imposed i by the first amendment on i American journalism as its spe-1 cial responsibility to the people.

"In elevating and protecting thpsp standards, he exemplified I Reporters ANTHONY LEWIS. MRS. CARO BROWN and ROLAND K. TOWERY were cited for their work the national and local news fields. Lewis, of the Washington Daily News, won the national award for articles on a Navy secuntyrisk firing; Brown of the Alice (Tex.) Daily Echo for local reporting under stress of edition deadlines and Towery, of the Cuero (Tex.) Record, for reporting when deadline pressure was not a factor.

them througn nis newspaper in One of the chief literary awards went to William Faulkner, 1949 Nobel prize winner for his World War I allegory, "A Fable." William S. White's story of the late Senator Robert Taft won the biography award; history honors went to Paul Horgan for "Great River, The Rio Grande in North American History," and Wallace Stevens received the poetry award for his book of collected verse. Photographer JOHN' GAUNT JR. (left) of thi Los Angeles Times won the news photography award for picture of parents grieving' on beach where their son was drowned. A Kansas City (Mo.) student, JACK W.

HENDERSON (center), was awarded the $1500 traveling scholarship in art. The musical drama, "The Saint of Bleecker Street," earned the music award for GIAN-CARLO MENOTTU DANIEL R. FITZPATRICK And the cartoon, first published in the Post-Dispatch June 8, 1954, which won for him the 1954 Pulitzer Prize for cartoons. It was the second such award for Fitzpatrick tfie first came in 1925 and he was'cited not only for the winning drawing but also for "the distinguished body of bis work." such a way that the people appreciated whence and why they came and what they were. "Great as was the prestige of the World of New York City, and despite the advantage it enjoyed in acquiring national fame because it was published in the metropolis, the St.

Louis Post-Dispatch under Joseph Pulitzer the Second kept pace with the World under his equally dedicated elder brother. "Though this was a notable contribution to the life of the United States, Joseph Pulitzer, in the opinion-of these associates, left a greater heritage shining Dprsonal character, humility in beside a turbulent sea in which the possession of power, and compassion for the unionunaie. He hated cant, sham, injustice and corruption ana was incapable of any of these. He was of the few gifted with both hu-moattiid a sense of consecration. companionship was as 7 vn fi ill i r1 i V.

I '-'A 1:1 I inspiring as it is irreplaceable and we shall miss it and be "the poorer always for the fact that it is nn mnrp The second Joseph Pulitzer served until his recent death as chairman of the advisory board. His son, Joseph Pulitzer now editor and publisher of the I r- iyLLii4M FAULKNER Vi (-f -Vtt 7 Post-Dispatch, acceptea an interim appointment to the board to Carry on its functions without only a few minutes earner uieu son had perished. Paul Horgan. the history award fdr "Great River, the Rio Grande in North American History." William S. While, who is a New York Times correspondent, the biography award for 'The Taft Story." Wallace Stevens, the poetry award for his collected poems.

Awarded Annually. The prizes in journalism, letters -nd the arts, founded by the first Joseph Pulitzer, are made annually by the trustees of Columbia University on recommendation of the Advisory Board on the Pulitzer Prizes The prizes in journalism for the calendar year 1954 carry with them a $1000 award, except that the "disinterested and meritorious service" by a newspaper receives a gold medal worth $500. The awards in the fields of srts and letters are $500 each. A $1500 traveling scholarship In art went to Jack W. Henderson of Kansas City, Mo.

Three traveling scholarships, each worth $1500 will be received by graduates of the Pulitzer School of Journalism at the end of this school year on nomination by the faculty. Anti-Vice Campaign. rru of the Colum interruption ana yesteraay was elected to serve a four-year TENNESSEE WILLIAM' A former St. Louisan, wa: another second-time win term as chairman, succeeding his father. Of a Pulitzer prize rer Mnmliprs of the advisory his drama, "Cat on board, in addition to Pulitzer, -7 l.

Hot Tin Roof." At right BARBARA BEL GEDDE; and BURL IVES In scene from the, play which ys sel are: Prnsiripnt Gravson Kirk of i it- a Mississippi ueif the university; Sevcllon Brown of the Providence (R.I.) Journal; plantation. The play woi the New York Drama Cnt- Wist K7 'S- Hodding Carter, publisher of the Delta Democrat-Times, Green ICS Circle award, earlier this year. WILLIAM S. WHITE PAUL HORGAN WALLACE'STEVENS DRAMATIST WORKS Biographical Sketches of Winners Fitzpatrick, Cartoonists Dean, 3 NATIVE SONS OF MISSISSIPPI AMONG WINNERS TO CALM DOWN ON LEARNING OF PRIZE ville, Robert Choate of the Boston Herald; Benjamin M. McKclway of The (Washington) Evening Star; Gardner Cowles of the Des Moines Register and Tribune; John S.

Knight, publisher of the Chicago Daily News and other Knight newspapers; Arthur Krock of the New York Times; William R. Mathews of The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson; Stuart II. Perry of the Adrian (Mich.) Telegram; J. Fprtmsnn. editor o.

the Mil Cited for Distinguished Work Of Journalism and Letters Awards NET? YORK, May bus Ledger and its Sunday affil KEY WEST, May 3 (UP) Playwright'Tennessee Williams ANIEL ROBERT FITZPATRICK, whose cartoon concerning American policy in Indochina won the Pulitzer award for iate to expose ana remuuy tu-ditions in vice- and crime-ridden Phenix City, resulted even-ii in ths ending of the cor- OLimVlXU arc sketches of the vinners of the Fuhtcer Prize-ttwartJs or lDu 'i announced yesterday. 19.54, joined the editorial staff of thn Post-Dispatch 42 years than lQOO cartoons, ago. Since that time he has drawn more rupt government. It was at Phenix City that Albert Pat waukee Journal, and Kent in a DanK Deiore joining Royal Canadian Air Force and Coooef. executive director of the later-was with the aruisn armeu William Faulkner Associated Press.

John Hohen- against the multiplicity of rules and regulations that afflict mod berg of Columbia University is said yesterday the Pulitzer Prize he won for his play came as a big surprise. Williams said he was so excited when he got the news of his award that he had to do some work on his next play to "calm down." "I was totally unprepared for the announcement," Williams said. "I did not even know the ward was hpinc niven today. I executive secretary ot the ooara. Krock retired aflcr serving 15 achieving world-wide fame.

In the award announced yesterday, Fitzpatrick was cited specifically for a drawing published last June 8, and generally for distinguished work throughout 1954 arid his entire career. The winning June 8 cartoon appeared wjleri American intervention in the' Indochinese conflict Special to the Prst-Dispatiti. JACKSON, May 3 Native sons of Mississippi carried off regional honors in the Pulitzer Prize awards yesterday. William Faulkner, whose novel 'A Fable" won the literary award, is a native of Oxford, and still lives there in a century-old home. Tennessee winner of the drama award, was born Thomas Lanier Williams in Columbus, Miss.

He. still writes with a Mississippi locale some of his plays. Winner of the award far a distinguished example of local reporting was Roland K. Towery; of Cuero, who was bom in Smithville, Miss. years.

The boara nanea ine Faulkner docs not call himself a literary man. He prefers to consider himself "a farmer who From his. century-old home in Oxford, he enjoys hunting, fishing and talking with doctors, la'wvrrs. livcrv stable men, many forces. After the war he was a.

department store book in New York City, a paperhanger and carpenter. For two years he was postmaster at the University of Mississippi where h8 had been a "special student" for twb years. While in New York he met Miss' Elizabeth Pralk later married to Sherwood Anderson, the author, who encouraged him to take up a writing career. In terson, Democrat nominee Alabama Attorney General, and noted anti-vice crusader, was murdered. "The vigor, consistency, and fearlessness of its.pursuit against chronic civil cancer in Phenix City marks as outstanding the anti-vice campaign conducted by the Ledger," the advisory board set forth hi the citation rewarding the journalistic venture with the gold medal.

-A. Racketeers had dominated the Phenix City courthouse for vcars, denied public records to Ledger reporters and on occa-CoDtlnueil on Page 8, Column 1. ern man, the 1925. cartoon contrasted the tablets of Mosaic, law with the mountain 'of legislation developed It was entitled: "The Laws of Moses and the Laws of Today." Cartoon Requirements. Requirements for tha Pulitzer award arc that the cartoon must "embody an idea made clearly apparent, shall show good drawing and striking pictorial effect, veteran Times corresponaent in a resolution that said: "Resolved, that the advisory, board on the Pulitzer Prizes accepts with great regret the decision of Mr.

Arthur Krock to retire from membership; "That the board recognizes with deepest gratitude the dis-iineuirhed services which Mr. of whom' have been depicted in had never considered the 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as one that would receive the Pulitzer Prize." Williams would' not discuss was being urged by some persons in France and elsewhere. The artist, often called dean of American cartoonists, also won the Pulitzer Prize in 1925 for a drawing published April 12 of that year. A. protest his- Faulkner had-a varied career before settling down to write seriously in 1924.

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