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ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH May 5, 195 1 1 Biographies Continued From Page One. Pulitzer Prizes Continued From Page One. Team Effort by Staff Exposed Vice and Gambling in Utica Area 1 turned their backs on report- for his "Collected Poemj, 1917-1952." Among other honors accrued to him through the years, are the Bollingen Poetry Prize and the Boston Arts Festival Poetry Award. He has also done writing for television and radio. Born in Glencoe, 111., May 7, 1892, he received an A.B.

degree from Yale in 1915, where he also played football and water polo, and a Bachelor of Law degree from Harvard in 1919. He entered the Army in World War I as a private, saw service in France, and was discharged as a captain. He married the former Ada Hitchcock in 1916. They have three sons, two living, and a daughter. MEMBERS OF ADVISORY BOARD IN SELECTION OF PULITZER AWARDS THE Pulitzer Prizes are awarded by the trustees of Columbia University (New York City) on recommendation of the advisory board of Pulitzer School of Journalism.

Members of the advisory board are: President Grayson Kirk of the university; Barry Bingham, president of the Louisville Courier-Journal; Erwm D. Canham, editor of the Christian Science Monitor; Hodding Carter, publisher of the Delta Democrat-Times, Greenville, Turner Catledge, managing editor of the New York Times; Norman Chandler, publisher of the. Los Angeles Times; Kenneth Mac-Donald, editor of the Des Moines Register and Tribune; J. D. Ferguson, editor of the Milwaukee Journal; W.

D. Maxwell, editor of the Chicago Tribune; Benjamin M. McKelway, editor of the (Washington) Evening Star; Paul Miller, editor of the Rochester (N.Y.) Times-Union; Louis B. Seltzer, editor of the Cleveland Press; John Hohenberg, secretary of the graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University, and Joseph Pulitzer editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and grandson of the founder of the prizes.

Pulitzer is chairman and Hohenberg serves as executive secretary of the board. States, the award of $500' will be divided between the estate of the historian, Dr. White, who died Feb. 23, 1958, and his collaborator, Miss Schneider. Entitled: "The Republican Era: 18G9-1901," it was the last volume of a series dealing with the evolution of the government of the United States.

Other volumes were "The Federalists," "The Jefferso nlans and The Jacksonians. In the preface of the prize- winning book, which was pub lished shortly after his death in Chicago, Dr. White acknowledged his "heavy debt" to Miss Schneider. Biography on Wilson. An award for "a dlstin-.

guished American biography or autobiography teaching patriotic and unselfish services to the people," went to Walworth for his two-volume account of the career of Wood-row Wilson, offering a sympathetic portrait and appraisal of the former President. The two-volume deal with Wilson's activities as teacher; president of Princeton University; Governor of New Jersey and in the White House. He was permitted to make use of the papers and diary of Col. E. M.

House, Wilson 8 confi- dente, hitherto unavailable. The poetry prize to Kunltx was for his "Selected Poems, 19U8-1958" which is a compila tion of 30 years of his work. Musle Award. LaMontaine's award In music was presented specifically for his Concerto for Piano and Orchestra." first performed at Washington Nov. 25 by the Na tional Symphony Orchestra and later at Carnegie Hall, New York City.

He composed It while commissioned by the National Symphony Orchestra, through the American music center, under a Ford Founda tion grant. He Is also a concert pianist of note. The 11500 annual traveling scholarship in art was re ceived by Witkln on the basis of certification of the National Academy of Design, now merged with the Society of American Artists, that he was considered "the most promis ing and dpservlng student." Kirk Praises Tress. In his statement concerning the increased nominations of candidates for the Pulitzer Prizes, especially in Journal- Ism, Columbia president Kirk said that each of the 556 "represented some unusual exploit by a newspaper or Individual staff member reflecting adherence to the best traditions of Journalism." A review disclosed an Im pression "vigilance, enterprise, courage and devotion to the public Interest" on the part of the press, large and small, he added. He pointed out that ex posure of graft and corruption had won more prizes during the life of the prizes than any other kind of activity.

There were 19 such nominations this year. Others dealt with science; education: crime; half of which dealt with juvenile delinquency and Its causes; disasters; urban development Including housing; Inflation; exploration of spare, and de vclopment In Africa, India and The diversity of the npws sit fl eluded: "For a long time now It has been needful for all Americans to stand iip and be counted on the side of law and due process of law even when to do so goes against personal beliefs and emotions. It is late but there Is time yet." The article was reprinted in more man iuu newspapers. Seaman received the Pulitzer award for a photograph published in the Minneapolis Star, showing the figure of a child's body, covered by a blanket, prone beside a crumpled tov wagon In the center of traffic-filled street. Beside the body Is a policeman making notes, the back of a white-clad Interne is shown departing from the patnetic scene.

Although the photograph appeared In the Minneapolis Tribune May 17, Seaman is a staff photographer for the Star. Both are Cowles papers. He took the picture on arrlv ing by chance at the place when on a routine assignment from his own office. Drama on Job. The third Pulitzer award In the field of letters to Mac Lelsh, once librarian of Con gress, was for hit play a morality drama in verse with deeply religious Implications.

The title, signifying the biblical Job, is appropriate to the theme describing the bitter misfortunes visited on the business man, known by the Initials ann hla rfiiai tn abandon hope and fslth In God. controversy. She also wrote interpretive background copy to explain the causes of conflict. Racketeering Exposed. Another Pulitzer Prize for local reporting, but without the pressure of deadline, went -to Brislin in recognition of a campaign he conducted for four years against labor racketeers and terrorists, prompted by the dynamiting of a non-union building under construction in the Scranton area in 1954.

The district attorney called Brislin's first expose a hoax. Subsequently, however, after he had prompted the long inquiry, 10 labor figures, six of them union business agents, were indicted and pleaded guilty or were convicted. Others were ousted by their unions. Brislin was praised by the Sen-at Rackets Committee for his contribution to the inquiry. Migrants' Plieht.

As a distinguished example of reporting on national affairs. Smith wrote a series of articles published in the Miami News exposing the shocking conditions in which 4000 stranded migrant farm workers lived at "Shacktown." 125 miles north of Miami. They had sold their only possessions to get food and clothing. The Smith stories were credited with obtaining more than $100,000 in contributions for the impoverished campers, In a clean-up of unsanitary conditions in "Shacktown," and with drawing national attention to the problem of 1,500,000 migrant workers posing a problem in the United States and obtaining assistance for them. Series on Cuba ins.

A documented expose of the brutality of the Cuban Batista regime and their prediction that Fidel Castro rebels would overthrow the tyrannical government, won the prize for "a distinguished example of reporting of international affairs" for Martin and Santora of the New York Dally News. The two reporters began an exclusive series of 10 articles in April 1958 when Gen. Tul-genclo Batista was considered entrenched as a strict but tolerated dictator. After spending weeks in the Cuban under ground gathering Information, they also managed to get a series of photographs showing atrocities perpetrated by Batista agents. On the basis of the eyewitness evidence and details supplied by informed sources, they predicted In their series that Manuelo Urrutla would head the provisional government after Castro took over and added reservations as to the rebel leader's statesmanship.

The facts set forth and the predictions were upheld by events. McGill's Editorial. McGill was named the outstanding editorial writer of the year for his contributions throughout that Interval to the Atlanta Constitution, and his previous writings, with emphasis on an article published Oct. 13, entitled: "A Church. A School dealing with the bombing of an Atlanta synagogue and a Clinton (Tenn.) high school.

A preachment against hale and violence, the editorial con- iijsAnS rn I- Pvtnrlc visory committee, Its Judgei and the trustees reflects a "collection of case histories of newspaper accomplishment which refutes the sometimes generalized criticism of a 'com- placent Kirk concluded. A spokesman for the advisory board on the Pulitzer Prizes announced that the board took no action on the suggestion by Robert W. Sarnoff, chairman of the board of the National Broadcasting to, include -an award for television drama in the Pulitzer Prize categories. It was the consensus of the board that television drama' is included in prizes currently available to television. Scranton Continued From Page One? the trial I wrote a series of articles with the general thegie: Will Bradshaw "A couple of months lafer Bradshaw came to me.

Ovco a period of two or three weeks we developed the whole basic story of the dynamiting which involved four others. I gave tjie information to the district attorney before writing it. -'t "Later Bradshaw got in tourh with me again and we developed the rest of the case linking six business agents of local unions to the dynamiting and another incident of labor violence. "I turned the information over to state police and the district attorney's office. The result was a special grand Jury investigation.

The grand jury returned indictments against the business agents. "After the trials and convictions I got in touch with the Senate Rackets Committee. I wrote articles calling for the ouster of convicted business agents from the locals. Three business agents from the Teamsters union were dismissed from office. "I was threatened and at times had to carry a gun and have a bodyguard.

But it was a reporting job and a respond-bility." EDUCATOR WARNS AMERICA OF RUSSIAN COMPETITION PHILADELPHIA, May -8 (UPD A Harvard University educator who recently returned from a tour of Russia warned today that "everywhere our school programs need rejuvenating and revitalizing." Dr. Harold C. Hunt, professor of education at Harvard's Graduate School, told the annual mrfMng of the Health Insurance Association of America that a more effective working partnership between American business and education was needed. Dr. Hunt, former undersecretary of health, education and welfare, said Russian schools are not nearly as good as ours but there is a fiercely competitive spirit ta Russia aimed at proving the superior ity of Communism over dc- mncracy.

TTmTYTiT fi JiS! Tavern 1 OLD CROW fcsf 1 XX i I I 1 I 1 3 ror a nook or the year online Middle kast, were syndicated for a time and he displayed his writing as well as his drawing talent with the publication of such books as "Up Front" and "Back Home." He was briefly editorial cartoonist for the now-defunct New York Star and turned to free-lance writing. When he came to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in April 1958. as a replacement for D. R.

Fitzpatrick while the dean of American editorial cartoonists went on a two-month vacar tion, Mauldin voiced the opinion that "it's a helluva big pair of shoes to try to fill even for a couple of months." Fitzpatrick did not return from his vacation but instead retired. Mauldin had begun filling his shoes ably enough and on Monday the two cartoonists wound up in a tie as far as Pulitzer Prizes are concerned ach having won two. A Democrat In politics, Mauldin was defeated in 1956 in a bid for Congress in New York's Twenty-eighth district. He is married to the former Natalie Sarah Evans since 1947, his first marriage having ended in divorce. He and his wife and his four sons live in Frontcnac.

John Harold Brislin Born Into a newspaper family on July 8, 1911, at Wilkes-Barre, Brislin did not need a fortune teller to tell him what his career would be. His father, Thomas J. Brislin, Is the retired associate editor of the Scranton Times. His mother formerly wrote for various Scranton newspapers. After attending the University of Scranton and Pennsylvania State University, he got his first newspaper Job on the Scranton Times as a copyboy.

His wife, Gene O'Boyle Brislin, Is the women'! page editor of the Scranton Tribune and Scrantonian. Brislin served for six years as president of the Middle Atlantic District Council of the American Newspaper Guild. William Seaman Seaman was born at Grand Island, and after graduation from high school did commercial photography before going to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. He has won other awards for hut work from the National Press Photographers Association and the Inland Dally Press Association. Married, he lives in St.

Louis Park, a Minneapolis suburb. He is 34 years old. Marjr Lou Werner Miss Werner got Into the newswrlting business through a curious backdoor. She applied for an accountant's Job IS years ago at the (Washington) Evening Star. She chose the newspaper because she was an accomplished mathematician, having studied the subject at the University of Maryland, and because she wanted a Job near the end of the bus line that ran from her mother's home In Alexandria, Vi to 'Washington.

However, the accountant's Job had already been filled, and Miss Werner was persuaded to take a codv slrl's position. In 1947 he became a reporter, cover ing Alexandria, and later she was assigned to the Legis lature In Richmond. When the Integration crisis flared up. the 32-year-old Miss Wer ner soon proved mat sne could carry the brunt of her papers deadline coverage on the subject. The award went to her this year for the body of her work for 1958 rather than for one story or Series of stories.

Miss Werner lives in Alexandria with her mother. Joseph Martin Martin Is a native New York er who started at the bottom as a ropy boy. He had to quit high school because of the depression. He started send ins in tins In 1933 to John Chapman, present New York Daily News critic who at that time was writing a column. Chapman was able to get the youngster from Querns a Job as copy boy on the News at SIS per week.

In 1934. Martin became a reporter and handled general assignments until he entered the Army Air Force in 1943. With the war over. Martin returned to the News and turned out several stories that brought him the reputation of being a reporter who could find and develop a colorful story. After breaking a building racket that had defrauded hundreds of former soldiers, he flew to the Orient and brought back a Chinese war orphan named Ann who was reunited with the G.I.

who had adopted her, Frank Chlsarlm, last April. Martin helped draft an open letter that led to the surrender of a doctor wanted for the killing of a Brooklyn nurse. Martin. 45. lives In the Bronx.

Is married and has a baby daughter. Philip Santora Santora also started as a eopv boy. He was on the New York Dally Mirror for 18 years fcefore Joining the Dally News as a special feature writer. He was educated at Syracuse University, New York University, and the Sorbonne. In World War II he aerved In Pattoni Third Army.

In his off hours, Santora, 47, tejrhes Journalism at Marymount College, Tarry-town. N.Y., near his home. He Is married and has two daughters. Leonard D. Whit Prof.

White was awarded a prize posthumously, for he died, at the see of 67. shortly before hit winning book of his tory was published In his lifetime. Dr. White, a Renuhliran and an advocate tit the Jeffersonlan philosophy of the history of the United UTICA, N. May 5 (AP) The artl-crime campaign that won two Utica newspapers a Pulitzer Prize moved into high gear shortly after the Apala-chin gangland convention in 1957 pointed a fiuger at underworld connections in Utica.

The Pulitzer gold, medal for meritorious public service in journalism was awarded yesterday to the afternoon Utica Observer Dispatch and the morning Utica Daily Press for their campaign last year against vice, gambling and assarted irregularities in the city and in Oneida county, of which it is a part. Both papers are members of the Gannett group of newspapers and radio stations. "It was a team effort," Mason Taylor, executive editor of both papers, said today. "Things got warm here after the Apalachln raid," he recalled. Three residents of Utica, an industrial city in the Mohawk Valley, were among the 60 underworld figures and friends listed by state police as delegates to the notorious Apalachln meeting on Nov.

14, 1957. Editions Hammering In the two years prior to Apalachin, the papers had hammered editorially at lax law enforcement and suspected collusion in high-up places. Early in 1958 they assigned a three-man task force to make an- Intensive investigation of iocal conditions. Jack Germond of the Albany bureau of Gannett news service headed the task force. Working with him were Tony Vella, city editor of the Daily Press, who was detached from his desk duties, and William Lohden, a reporter covering city hall.

"Then things began to happen fast," Taylor related. At the height of the newspaper drive, city officials limited federal government, was often called on by both Republican and Democratic Presidents for service on civil service commissions and Gov ernment loyalty boards. A former federal Civil Service Commissioner, he also served on the Hoover commission. The prize-winning work was the last In a series on the evo lution of the United SUtes system of government from 1789 to 1901. Its three predecessors were "The Federalists," "lne Jeffersonlans" and "The Jack-sonlans." The last-named won the Bancroft Prize of Columbia University.

Together, the four volumes represent pioneer work In the field of American administrative history. In all, he wrote 17 books and a number of special studies of public administration and government. He was born Jan. 17. 1891, In Acton, and died Feb.

23. 1958. in Chicago. He revived his B.S.. M.A.

and Lit D. degrees from Dartmouth Col-leee. and his Ph.D. at the Uni versity of Chicago, whose faculty he Joined in 1920. Eventually, he occupied the Ernest Dewitt Burton distinguished servire chair In public admin istration at Chicago.

Jean Schneider Miss Schneider. White'! re search assistant, also served as his secretary while he was in Washington. She Is a graduate of Vassar and became asso ciated with the social science research committee at the Uni versity of Chicago in I9ze. in 1943, she began work with Dr. White as an assistant in public administration at the unlver iltv.

Miss Schneider took copious notes under Dr. White's super vision for his major historical work, verified references, checked his preliminary drafts for accuracy of fact and, In the preparation of "The Repub lican Era. often rephrased portions of the manuscript. Since Prof. White's death 'she has been managing a project on the editing of the papers of James Madison at the univer sity.

Howard Van Smith Before Joining the Miami News. 49 year-old Howard Van Smith previously sprved on the staffs of the New York Times and the Macon. Ga News. He was born In San Francisco, but received his education in Boston at Franklin Union College. He now lives In Miami with his wife and four sons.

He was Sunday editor of the Miami News for 12 years. Ralph McGill Ralph Emerson McGill Is editor-in-chief of the Atlanta Constitution through. His 28 years of commenting on all as-Dccts of life, but especiallythe political "that Inexact science, he has often been described as "the conscience of the But he shuns the title of crusader "because I have been cursed all my life with the ability to see both sides." Despite this disclaimer. McGill fought the Ku Klux Klan In Its days of power, has long champlonpd Negro rights, has battled with success such epic demagogues as Georgia's three-time Governor Gene Talmadge, uho accused McGill of being "on the payroll of the Jewish bosses" for traveling to Europe In the late 30s on a Rosenwald fellowship. McGill was born Feb.

5, 1898. in East Tennesee on a farm equidistant from the towna of Roddy and Daisy, each one claims "1 was born in the other he says and after schooling In Chattanooga, entered Vanderbllt University, where he played guard on the football team. He was asked to leave after composing a lampooning broadside of the board of trustees and the faculty club. During World War I he was In the Marines, winding up as captain. From 13Z3 to he was sports editor of the ers.

They said the disclosures were giving the city a bad name. During the news blackout, the city clerk refused even to let reporters read local ordinances. The Indignant city fathers called for an inquiry into newspaper monopoly. They considered a tax on advertisements. Neither proposal was adopted.

Utica Improved Now. The state investigation commission also delved into goings-on in Utica and finally the then Gov. Averell Harrlman appointed a special state prosecutor to conduct a grand jury investigation. The grand jury still is at work. Edgar Croswell, the state trooper who led the Apalachin raid, is chief investigator for the special investigation.

What else has happened? The chief of police has retired under fire' and a deputy chief has quit. Six members of the force were suspended but they subsequently won reinstatement. Seven brothel operators have been Indicted and four of them have pleaded guilty to misde meanor charges. Three are serving jail terms. The trial of another one, Irene Burke, opened today In nearby Rome.

As a result of one series of newspaper articles, a special Inquiry is under way Into city purchasing and payroll practices. What Is Utica like today? "Conditions are vastly improved," Taylor said. Above all, he explains, the citizens of Utica have been aroused and are on guard. Said the Pulitzer citation: "By their stalwart leadership of the forces of good government, these newspapers upheld the best traditions of a free press." Nashville (Tenn.) Banner be fore going to the Atlanta Con stitution, where he became sports editor In 1931. By 1939 he was executive editor and in 1942 editor-in-chief.

While abroad on his Rosen- wald grant, he covered Hitler Germany'i anschlusa with Austria in 1938. He has returned to Europe several times since, and in 1948 reported on the Nuremberg war crimes trials. From visits to Israel in 1946 and 1950 came a book, "Israel Revisited." In bis cluttered office, the 61-year-old editor relegates administrative details to others while concentrating on news- papering. Hit dally column is syndicated to some 40 papers. Earlier this year, he won the Sidney Hlllman Foundation Prize for his columns defend ing the public school system.

He married the former Marv Elizabeth Leonard In 1929; they have one son. The McGills live in a spacious house on Atlanta's Piedmont road and have a reputation for their outgoing hospitality. Arthur Walworth A Harvard professor convinced Yale graduate Arthur Walworth to undertake his biographical study of Woodrow Wilson. After Prof. Arthur M.

Schleslnger made bis point. Walworth spent the next 10 years of his life working on the project. The two-volume study take Wilson from his days as a teacher through his service as a university president, his time in New Jersey's state capitol and his years as President of the United States. Walworth a i graduated from Yale In 1923 and immediately left for China where he taught English at Yale-in-China, it Changsha. He went Into publishing after his return to the United States and during the war worked In the Offlre of War Information.

Since then, he has been occupied with his writing. His books include "Black Ships Off Japan." "Ile of Ro-manee" and the Wilson biography. Walworth today lives with relatives at Newton Centre, Mass. He Is unmarried. He has a strong liking for tennis, sailing and chess.

Archibald MacLeish MacLeish Is nothing so much as a personification of the renaissance man. Presently a professor of Eng. llfth at Harvard and a successful playwright, MacLeish also has a lively Interest In politics and the ability to be good at It. From 1944 until 1945 he was Assistant Secretary of State. In addition, among other things he has also been librarian of Congress (appointed In 1939, and director, of the United States Office of Farts and Flaures (1941), a founder rt t'Via'n lawyer, as well as a teacher of law.

Not one to remain aloof, he was an outspoken critic of the late Joseph R. McCarthy, and In turn became a target of the Wisconsin Senator. MacLeish views the arts, especially poetry, "as a human labor, and what humanity most-desperately needs is not creation of new worlds but the recreation of the world we have, and It Is to this task that all the arts are committed." In execution of this credo In "JB," a modern re-telling of the bonk of Job, Marl-plsh saw the only ancient myth I know which holds our history. It is the story of a man who, for no reason whatever finds himself suffering dreadful disasters. He cries out to God for justice.

He wants to know why. This seems to me to be our situation." The play became an Instantaneous hit despite Its opening on Broadway during the deliverers' strike which had shut down New York's newspapers. Hit only previous venture on Broadway, "Panic," folded after three nights In 1933. In 1933, MacLeish won his first Pulitzer Prize with the narrative poem "Conquistador1 and In 1953 received hli second SMTINGYOllLOCAnMERN Robert Lewia Taylor Taylor, author of nine books and writer of scores of maga zine articles, is one of those fortunate souls who has worked his wav around the world. One of the lessons Taylor learned, after spending a whole year in Polynesia, catches a bit of the spirit of the man.

oe- gan to realize," he says of his Polynesian stay, "what I know now for sure, that the primitive peoples of the globe ought to send missionaries up here rather than receiving ours with cullib cordiality. After his round-the-world tour. Taylor became a general reporter for the Post-Dlspatcn, leavlna St. Louis in 1939 to go to work for the New xomer Magazine. At the New Yorker he Is best known for his "Reporter at Large" and "Profile" arti- cles.

He has also written for manv national magazines and for the movies. He says he writes about two to six profiles a vear now. at the same time working on his books. He began his professional writing while at college and he was graduated with an A.B. from the University of Illinois in 1933.

Then he spent a year cycling in Europe and working his way around the world. He was born in Carbondale, 111., on Sept. 24, 1912. He lives with his wile and daughter and son In Sharon. and all participate in the family hobby of boating.

In addition to the Pulitzer Prize winner, his books are "Adrift in a Boneyard," Doc tor, Lawyer, Merchant, Chief," "The Running Pianist," C. Fields," "Professor Fodorskl," "Winston Churchill." "The Bright Sands" and "Center Ring." John LaMontaina In 1953, LaMontalne viewed the crossroads that lay ahead in his musical career, and he journeyed from New York to Paris to obtain guidance. A product of America's finest musical educational facilities, LaMontalne had had some success as a concert pianist, and was with NBC Symphony under Arturo Toscanlnl for four years, until the maestro retired. What was troubling LaMontalne was whether he should continue performing music or whether he should devote himself composing It. The renowned French teacher.

Nadla Boulsnger, urged composition on him. His Pulitzer Prize-winning work had been commissioned by the national symphony orchestra through the American Music Center under a Ford Foundation grant. LaMontalne was horn In Oak Park, March 17, 1920. He took his early training at the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago. Thereafter he studied at the Eastman School of Music, Rochester, N.

under Bernard Rogers and Dr. Howard Hanson. After four years In the Navy In World War II, he became a student of Bernard Wagenaar at the Juil-Hard School. At Rochester, Dr. Hanson had chosen one of LaMontaine's first works, "Music for a Greek Play," for performance on a national broadcast by the Eastman-Rochester symphony orchestra In 1938.

His "Songs of the Rose of Sharon," a song-cycle for soprano and orchestra, was performed by the National Symphony In 1957 at Carnegie Hall, and his "Concerto for String Orchpstra" was performed by the Chicago Chamber orchestra at the Art Institute, Chicago, the same year. LaMontalne Is single and lives In New York City. Stanley Kuniti Kunltz has long been recognized as a leading American poet, and the Pulitzer Prize raps a series of awards that his creative writing have earned him since his days at Harvard. There he won, while still a student, the Garrison Medal for Poetry, and following his graduation summa rum laude, he made a dent In the literary world with the publication of two volumes of poetry, "Intellectual Things," and "Passport to the War." After three years In the army, Kunltz won a Guggenheim Fellowship and In 1954, the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Fellowship. The following year, Poetry magazine chose him for Its Levlnson prize.

In 1957 he received a special prle from the Saturday Review and In 1958 he won the Harriet Monroe Poetry Award given by the University of Chicago. This year, he was one of the first to receive the Ford Foundation grant for creative artists. In addition to his poetle writings, he la the author of "Twentieth Century Authors," eo-edltor of the five-volume "Living Authors" and other standard works of literary reference. He was born at Worcester, July 29, 1905. and for a time was feature writer for the Worcester Telegram.

He has taught at Bennington College, the University of Washington, and Queens Col lege In New York City and presently teaches at the New School in New York City. He Is married to the former Elea nor Evans and they live In New York and Bucks county, Pa. hht hh fTinin unr rm A -I 1 Twain holds forlli nt KlnprollYn Wit flashed when Mark Twain spoke and his favorite Kentucky bourbon, Old Crow flowed during convivial evenine at the fjmcd I Imiri, N.Y. tavern. According to an intimate biography, the beloved humorist once ordered 25 barrels of Old Crow to assure his supply at Klaproih'i.

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