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4 May 2, 1972 ST. LOUIS POST'DISPATCH i i-sw-rv r- i 1 I -1 I I' s- i -r I ill If I v- i wm-wnr- lira- ami i.i miiinw Mm D-L Richard Cooper jonn 3Tronmeyer jeiirey i. momouj John Machacek Peter R. Kann A correspondent for the Wall Street Journal Kann, 29 years old, graduated from Harvard with a degree in government in 1964 was member of editorial board and political editor of the Harvard Crimson joined the Journal in 1964 and spent first year in Pittsburgh sent to Vietnam in July, 1967, and covered the war for 16 months since November, 1968, has been the Journal's Asian correspondent went to India-Pakistan-Bangladesh theater before outbreak of the war, which his dispatches forecast Irreverent, sardonic investigative columnist Born in Chicago Sept. 19, 1932, son of a Ukrainian immigrant and sometime tavern-keeper after Air Force stint, returned home to Lerner neighborhood newspapers, the Chicago City News Bureau and, in 1959, the Daily News In 1971 made national impact with' "Boss: Richard J.

Daley of Chicago," a caustic harpooning of the Mayor and his political machine Royko's investigative reporting often leads him to stand up for the little guy as well as lambast Mayor Daley. One of the youngest Pulitzer Prize winners born 24 years ago in New York City attended Phillips Exeter Academy, Andover, University of North Carolina drawing for "about 24 years" cartooning since college days started with sports, did brief stint as college paper's sports editor worked on Chapel Hill weekly during and for a year afterward won national newspaper association award for cartooning landed job on Richmond News Leader 18 months ago was not sure which cartoon had won prize. Won prizes for editorials five times at Penn State University Annual Press Conferences a former president of the Pennsylvania Society of Newspaper Editors member of the editorial board of Nieman reports and a former Nieman Fellow at Harvard began his newspaper career in 1941 at the age of 16 as a reporter for Bethlehem Globe Times when attending college served three years in Navy in World War II attended Columbia University journalism school where he won a Pulitzer traveling Cooper is a police reporter for the Rochester, N.Y., Times-Union He was born Dec. 8, 1946, in Grand Rapids, Mich He graduated in 1965 from Central Christian High School, Grand Rapids, in 1967 from Grand Rapids Junior College and in 1969 from Michigan State University with a B.A. in journalism hobbies include golf and skiing lives in Rochester, with his wife and son.

Cooper is 25 years old. A reporter for the Rochester, N.Y., Times-Union who specializes in covering city education He was born Feb. 18, 1940 in Cedar-Rapids, la. graduated in 1958 from Immaculate Conception High School, Cedar Rapids, and in 1962 from Marquette University served as a public information specialist in the Army from May to November 1963 worked as a reporter for the Milwaukee Sentinel and the Albany Knickerbocker News lives in Rochester with his wife and daughter. Machachek is 32 year old.

If fcb. Proud Of His Prize Photographers Lenses Caught Spirit Of War From Post-Dispalfh Wlr Service NEW YORK, May 2 Two photographers, Horst Faas of The Associated Press and Dave Kennerly of United Press International, were notified of their Pulitzer wins when on duty in Indochina. Faas and AP photographer Michel Laurent shared the 1971 Pulitzer for spot news photographer for their series, "Death in Dacca." Hearing the news at the AP's Paris bureau, Laurent cabled New York headquarters: "Overjoyed and delighted." Faas said from Saigon: "I have always hoped that my pictures of the brutal happenings of the world will have the effect of preventing such incidents happening again." Kennerly won the Pulitzer for his feature photographs of the Vietnam war during 1971. Word of the award came at about 4:30 a.m. today, as Kennerly was going to bed after a night of editing pictures.

"To the best of my knowledge, those pictures were taken during the first two or three months," Kennerly said when he learned of the award. "Tired GIs, disgruntled GIs. I was ANGLE OF BJETOSE I WALLA STEGNEB i WINNING CARTOON: An editorial cartoon from the prize-winning portfolio of Jeffrey K. MacNelly of the Richmond, News Leader. Boston Globe Reporter Team FROM PAGE ONE won a Pulitzer indicates we've become respectable.

"The young reporters want to do what we're doing," he said. "They recognize much better than their elders the role of the press as a watchdog on government." It was Anderson's column that first maintained there was a link between the International Telephone Telegraph Corp. contribution to the Republican national convention and the settlement of antitrust action against ITT. Department of Justice officials and ITT executives have denied a link but Senate confirmation of acting' Attorney General Richard G. Kleindienst has been held up because of a long inquiry by the Judiciary Committee.

IT WAS ANDERSON'S reporting that led to the downfall of the late Senator ThomasJ. Dodd Connecticut, who was censured by the Senate for allegedly converting political contributions to his personal benefit. Anderson was nominated for the Pulitzer then, but was passed over. The list goes on but Anderson says, "I haven't become cynical. I know the people in government.

I know that most of them are decent people. Most of them are basically 1 -21 Duo Hard-And Won An Award trying to capture what I BOSTON, May 2 (UPI) The ecutive editor, said, "these The award went to the four thought the American soldiers 'editor of the Boston Globe said people on the Spotlight team members of the spotlight team: fejt tne war jn Vietnam. yesterday that hard digging spent hours upon hours in the Timothy Leland, Gerard M. j0t many of them like it." the newspaper the Pulitzer dusty cellar of City Hall in O'Neill, Stephen A. Kurkjian Prize for investigative report- Somervllle.

They faced a great and Ann DeSantis. Miss DeSant- tj TJ "ing for its series of articles on deal of harassment from many is and Kurkjian were married 1 lllltzer riZC i corruption in Somerville, Mass. quarters and they hung in there last year. 4 1 The Globe's spotlight team and got what we thought was The Spotlight team was form- AQVlSOry OOarfl THE WINNING BOOKS are "Angle of Repose," Wallace Stegner, for fiction; "Neither Black nor White," Carl N. Degler, history; "Eleanor and Franklin," Joseph P.

Lash, biog raphy; "Collected Poems," James Wright, poetry, and "Stilwell and the American Expe- 'yille's city hall and reported "It wasn't so much of a story terned after Insight, a similar Members LlSted rience Chma' l9IM945. Barbara W. Tucnman, general nontiction. that rnntrartnrs uprp oivpn ritv nf Rnmervillp as a srnrv of pnv- investieative team on the Lon- contract work without competi- ernment malpractice that pro- don Sunday Times which broke The Pul it ze Prizes are Wit fit T)q Oil "tive bidding and also revealed bably could be found in many the Profumo scandal. Leland me uuslccs 01 u- News Of Pulitzer Award Startled Music Critic i other government al mal- cities." worked for the Times for about J1 cities." worked for the Times for about umveisuy ewiurn IfO OV EjllCOre' practices.

A grand jury investigation six months two years ago and U1 "It's a great thrill to see un- following the Globe series re- the Spotlight team was formed the Advisory Board on the Pu- jgjg WilineV 25 litzer Prizes FROM PAGE ONE Members of the A i 0 ROCHESTER, N. May 2 honest, as honest as you and in Webster Groves and are the me" parents of two children, Mrs. He says his award may en-Peters, who was born in Rome, courage others to believe as is, by her husband's descrip- he does "that the public has Board are: glamorous, protessionai digging suitea in uz criminal inaicr- on nis return to tne uioDe. in our local community win this ments against 19 persons and "This is the kind' of report-high journalistic salute," said four companies involved in the many newspapers are find-Globe editor Tom Winship. Somerville contracting.

Trials ing is important to them and I'-. John S. Driscoll, assistant ex- are pending. to their readers," Driscoll said. riiiiom nt.r-iii (UPI) Richard Cooper, who at the space between the musi- of the University; Benjamin C.

25 years of age won the coveted cians and the audience. I try Pulitzer Prize for his dispatches to discuss what happened mu- tion "also a devoted music lov- a right to know what goes on The Washington Post; Wallace 0nJthe blood? Attlfa P7SOn n0t' sicallv in a wav the reader wl11 er. but tone deaf." in Henry Kissinger's back Carroll, publisher of the Win know what he can do for an Peters writes about 150 music ston-Salem Journal Sentinel, The logistics of attending con- rooms, certs sometimes flag him, but Anderson was born in Long Peters says music criticism is Beach. Caiif hllt in reviews a year and writes arti- Pulitzer Prizes For 1971 FROM PAGE ONE day before finally giving their Maybe the trustes were sensi- of North Carolina; John Cowles You're 25 years old and you cles on music for the Sunday "still a labor of love. I never SaIt Lake City where his Mor.

hair on mirth president of The Minneapolis Star Tribune; Price Day, win the biggie, man that hv- arts page of the Post-Dispatch. he says, is the Vo ing! How do you put in words? Experience, editor-in-chief of The Baltimore major role in all phases of the t. t. 1T rinns nf thp Arfuisorv Rnarrl "I nn uvn.Ui. Pulitzer Frizes.

going a controversial story Is not Sun; William B. Dickinson, ex- asked. 'You want to be- oblem in successfu wouid continue writing he nesting to be eligible for the ecutive editor of The Philadel- lieve it but now what am I go- criticism It the problem of tated momentarily and replied ilitzers," Meyer added, "then phia Bulletin; Robert J. Dono- in t0 do for tPPs? having heard a certain piece of- jF n. rnnnni- nnH fnl1fii rrTr tan Anmmk nnA tin flare tlrtin it Pulitzers, and fellow ten and understanding it A university sDokesman said menis are 10 De accoraea great weight by the trustees.

mon parents moved when he was 2. It was in that city he broke into the news business, as Boy Scout editor of the Deseret News at age 12 and later on the editorial staff of the Salt Lake Tribune. He did Mormon New York Times publisher, what is?" van, associate editor and colu- Cooper a report- enough got a prize for." "In the trustees' deliberations Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, absent- a Rosenthal managing mist of the Los Angeles Times; er, John Machacek, at the well enough to be able to write on the 1972 Pulitzer Prizes, a ed himself from the meetings of editor of the Times comment- Lee Hills, executive editor the Rochester Times-Union uncov- with knowledge about a new majority of them had deep res- the board of trustees, of which ed: Knight Newspaper, Sylvaji ered that the hostages, killed performance of it. ervations about the timeliness he is a member. puiitzer award means Meyer- editor of The Miami dunnS the retaking of the pri- it is because of his felt lack Cartoonist Unaware it 4 1 missionary work in the South He Was A Contender and has been in Washington and siutabihty of certain of the Mnct nf tha m.nir, nf tn News; Newbold Noyes edi- on.

voiea irom gunsnoi ol experience, meters explains, that he believes he will not be a since 1947. journalism awards. advisorv hoard reached venter, thp nanor It cvmhniirps th mn. tor of The Evening Star, of wounds RICHMOND, May 2 Cooper had checked at the truly good critic until he is ui.Minnc i u. i Washington: James Reston.

After service in the merchant (UPI) Jeffrey K. MacNelly, u5 ovivi-uuiu ussii uay uiu nui nuuw ui uic hum uuri we nave reueiveu irom me those of the trustees alone, cer- statPmpnr nrf HprlinP mainritv nf thP Amprira vlce president of The New York Monroe county medical ex- ready to retire. statement and declined great majority of the American VJL" IorK 1 I -j marine and Army during World of the recipients would not immediate comment. press in our decision to print T.T RT' ZZac C0Ilea8uesj ters u.c ru.u. War he walked im pear.

have been chosen. The decision do.t know what they the Pentagon papers and dur- rd ThHe inmatP iniJp' most admires a 1 Schon- for editorial cartooning, said son's office in 1967 and asked to accept all of the advisory couM object to ttis war the court battle. Jou nal; fJhnr rJ wbaye 1 'n ber8, critc1for the ew York yesterday he "had absolutely for a job. Mmmm.noinn. 1 berg, secretary of the Graduate Machacek was assigned to stay Times and last year's Pulitzer recommendations this Sylvan Meyer editor of the "We are all particularly School of journalism at Colum- with the medical examiner, Dr.

Prize winner in that category. no ldea 1 was a contender." He views the column as was arrived at, in large Miami) FIai News -pentagon proud of Neil Sheehan for the bia and Joseph Pulitzer ed- John F. Edland, until he con- Peters says he cannot rulme a In fact. MacNelly, 24 years "court of last resort for the laZ L'nTnH I papers- 0urchief consideration tenacity knowledge and profes- itor of the st. Louis Post.Dis.

firmed the report. favorite musical style: "I don't old, of the Richmond News voiceless, the little people." It fhTaE LrH was that il was certainlv a patch and grandson of the The Times-Union broke the like the nineteenth Leader said he had foreotten d-rawS up t0 300 letterS 8 day' the advisory board. major event in history of pwotally to the whole project." founder of the prizes. story around noon, September more than the eighteenth, or I th 7 many containinS liPs- A spokesman for Columbia journalism. Jack Anderson? A member of the jury that Pulitzer is chairman and Ho- 14.

This led to an almost im- anything like that; I like good veserclay was tne dav tne He and does syndi- saia me trustees met ior more Pulitzers have in the past gone voted to award a mutzer Prize serves as executive mediate correction of a false music of any era." ruiiizer rnzes were to De cated radio and television than three hours Sunday night to syndicated columnists for to the New York Times said secretary of the board, official statement on the deaths. Peters and his wife, Alba, live spots. in debate over this year exposes. If this is the year tnat the jury wanted the prize awards. Then, they convened when the Administration has a to be shared by Sheehan, the for another 70 minutes yester- lot to be exposed, it's too bad.

reporter who obtained the Carl N. Degler James Wright Joseph P. Lash Wallace Stegner The juror, Stuart Awbrey of the Hutchinson, News, said the recommendation by the five-member panel for a shared award in the public service category had unanimous. He added that he thought Sheehan had gotten "a bum deal" from the Advisory Board on the Pulitzer Prizes, which decided to give the award to the newspaper alone. Wrote History Book For Average Citizen STANFORD, May 2 (UPI) Carl N.

Degler, who started out to write a book on race relations for the "ordinary citizen," yesterday received a Pulitzer Prize for history for bis work. "The irony of it all is that my intention was to write a book for the ordinary citizen who's interested in race rela- tions," said Degler. "Apparently once people opened the cover, it must have had some emotional impact on them." Columbia U. Trustees Following are the members of the board of trustees of Columbia University: 1 William S. Paley, chairman of the board of CBS; William A.

M. Burden, partner William A. M. Burden ambas-- rsador to Belgium; William T. Gossett, a Detroit lawyer; I Samuel R.

Walker, real estate consultant; Benjamin J. Butten-wieser, limited partner in Kuhn, Loeb Harold F. McGuire, senior partner in Wiskes, Riddell, Bloomer, Jacobi McGuire. Frederick P. Bryan, United States district judge; Harold A.

Rousselot, senior partner of Du Pont, Glore, Florgan I Frank S. Hogan, district attorney, New York County; William I E. Petersen, former president of Irving Trust Co. of New York; Frode Jensen, a doctor; Arthur 0. Sulzberger, presi-- dent and publisher New Rork Times Arthur B.

Krim, chairman of the board of United Artists Corp. Charles F. Luce, board chairman and chief executive officer of Consolidated Edison Co. of New York; Lawrence E. Walsh, member of Davis, Polk Wardwell law firm; Robert D.

Lilley, president of American Telephone Tela-. graph; The Rev. M. Moran Weston, Episcopal clergyman. W.

Clarke Wescoe, vice president of Sterling Drug Co. and former chancellor of the University of Kansas; Franklin A. Thomas, president of Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Daniel F. Crowley, senior vice president of McGraw-Hill, William J. McGill, chancellor of Columbia Univer-" sity; Thomas M.

Macioce, president of Allied Stores Carl W. Desch, senior vice president and cashier of First National City Bank of New York. Barbara W. Tuchman Mrs. Tuchman's book is a portrait of Gen.

Joseph Stilwell and the faltering United States policies in China that collapsed with the defeat of Chiang Kai-shek. Her other volumes of i st include "Bible and Sword," published in 1956; "The Zimmermann Te 1 -gram," in 1958, and "The Proud Tower," in 1 J66 Jacob Druckman Druckman is a member of the faculty of Juillard School of Music has won numerous awards and grants two Fulbright and two Guggenheim grants and commissions by the Naumberg Foundation and the Koussevitsky Foundation "Windows" is an orchestral but his music has also been used by ballet companies, Wright began writing poems in in his youth in his native Martins Ferry, Ohio fled Ohio as a "destructive and ugly place" poems empathize strongly with poor, lonely, and the outcast award-winning collection contains nearly all poems from four earlier volumes, plus some 30 Degler's book also won a Bancroft prize this year He is also author of "Out of Our Past: the forces that shaped modern America (1959) Also wrote "Pivotal Interpretations of American History (1966)," "Age of Economic Revolution (1967)," "Affluence and Anxiety (1968)." Stegner is a forthright craftsman of nbv-els often set in the American West, an upholder of traditional values in life and letters his books, exalting the beauty of the a anticipated ecology movement by many years has 1 spent his adult life as professor of literature and creative writing. Lash's biography also won a National Book Award and the Francis Parkman prize of the Society American Historians. Lash, met Mrs. Roosevelt and was befriended by her when he was active in socialist politics in the 1930's.

helped found Americans for Democratic Action and was later active in Democratic reform politics..

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