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Name Pulitzer Prize-Winners SYMBOLS WESTERN UNION TELEGRAM i Clast or Slavics Tkfc (nt i i to Muni clue 1 1 iadkeced If tbe reyinkol A W-Oalaa NLN(hc leoec Munition LawTaksww ww Marshall Haamt THaSline rime alioon in tha ia Sna Pridotuecric telegrame It STANDARD UM8 at QoMo(ori)w-Ttmt of cecetnc I STAatruia re-let Mpotacof 4ftdnerio award for his editorials "In a community inflamed by the segregation Cited as an outstanding example was his Feb 7 1956 editorial "What A Price for concerning the efforts of Autherlne Lucy a Negro girl to gain admission to the University of Alabama Added the trustees: Mr editorial demonstrated courage and independence in the face of excited and almost hysterical opposition At the same time they gave evidence of the willingness of community to follow sober and enlightened leadership dedl cated to the maintenance of order and Individual rights challenged by mob Impulses The Pulitzer Prize for cartooning went to Tom Lleele of The Nashville (Tenn) Tennessean for his cartoon "Wortder Why My Parents Give Me Salk Continued from Fare One lfl HI coverage of the Hungarian revolt In the words the citation featured personal risk within Russian-held Budapest and gave frontline eyewitness reports of the ruthless Soviet repression of the Hungarian BUFORD BOONE president and publisher of the Tuscaloosa (Ala) News won the editorial Press Award: Acme of All Iii Profession It depicts a small boy on crutches and with his legs In -braces watching other youngsters his age playing football The top award for news photography went to Harry A Trask of the Boston (Mass) Traveler for his picture sequence on the sinking last July 26 of the Italian liner Andrea Doria off Nantucket His pictures were taken from an airplane flying at a height of only 75 feet In the field of historical writing George Kennan former US ambassador to Russia won a Pulitzer prize -for his "Russia Leaves the War" covering the period from the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917 until Russia left World War I four months later Honors for Timely Coverage B2yi 62 t5 VWL0T3 PDcHCU Ng VQRK Nt 6 2 PM 0IHUR DECK- EXfCUXIVE EDITOR JPlBUHg JAHa WJ9 I 1 ar- tGRAVSON KiRIC SM Tribune Staff Captures Pulitzer Reporting Prize THE MUSIC? AWARD went to Norman Dello Joio a compost tlon teacher at Sarah Lawrence College for his "Meditations on Ecclesiastes" designed originally as music for ballet Richard Wilbur recently appointed professor of English at Wesleyan University won the poetry award for of This It is a selection from Ms works of the past five years which the citation said translates ordinary subjects into a personal poetry The trustees made a special Pulitzer citation to Roberts a novelist whose works include "Rabble in "Northwest and "Lydia He was cited for "historical novels which have long contributed the creation o1 greater Interest in our early American THI company win appspciati suer ruriON fOM ITS patrons CONCIRNINO It HRVtCI I reporting: under the i tiffjsrLmsL as ss-ss vssass Ien Who Shed Light Into the Darkness SUNDAY MORNING Tribune readers were told the story with pictures maps arid photographs on three full pages 1 planning and the coverage stop there however A discussion on light conditions in the mile deep canyon with a park ranger resulted in planning Sunday photograph missions with great success frie ranger said the best time for pictures would be about 9 am when haze and shadows in the canyon had been penetrated by the rising sun but the air turbulence be too great to permit flying Although other photographers were in the area earlier The two cameramen in two separate planes obtained the first useable pictures The reporters aboard gathered material for their stories Later they landed at the Grand Canyon airport for additional pictures and interviews with airline and search officials Within a short time all were back in Cedar City where the pictures were transmitted directly Into The Associated Press Wirephoto network that were used by all the leading newspapers The reporters stories also were carried by -The Associated Press First editions Monday morning told the complete story with photographs maps and text totalling more than 20 Sketches Review Lives of Prize Winners Continued from Page One Tribune a reporter-photographer team was sent to Cedar City In a chartered- Cessna-310 aircraft Another plane also was chartered in Cedar City Although- search were centered In Winslow Ariz The Tribune operations were conducted from Cedar City where direct teletype communication to Salt Lake via the news 'leased wire was pos sible Portable Wirephoto equipment also was set up there When the first wreckage was sighted near dark The Tribune staff members were just a few minutes flying time away Frank Jenfcen reporter in the Cedar City bureau obtained in terviews with the Hudgin broth era who saw the burning wreckage Robert Alkire was assigned to write the main story Robert Blair in Salt Lake City handled the rewrite assignment Richard 0 Pitner also In Salt Lake was able to interview Grand Canyon Park Rangers and get descriptions of the crash site and terrain MEANWHILE maps of the butte on which the crash occurred were obtained from the Geological Survey other maps showing the locale prepared by Tribune artists photographs of the Grand Canyon were selected for publication In Salt Lake as the story progressed historical data on previous disasters was gathered by reporters Interviews with CAA personnel on how the crash occurred also were conducted' 'Arid articles written on that phase of the investigation AH resources of the new paper were utilised to "tell the a Born in Scotland in 1909 but reared here Reston began as sports writer joined the Associated Press in 1934 (Mr Washington and after writing a column on dispatches are published fra- ln Salt Uke Times there in 1939 returning to Washington on loan to the Office of War Information George Kennan Now 53 he was bom in one of treat dramatists died In 1953 Heis the only man ever to win four awards for drama Sherwood won three in field and one in the biography Now a Broadway hit "Long Journey Into Night" opened Nov 7 1956 It became a part of most tri-mnphant Broadway season His Tne Iceman is undergoing a revival his "A Moon for the recently opened and an opening is scheduled this week of "New Girl in a musical version of his "Anna By Associated Pres NEW YORK May 6 Following are biographical sketches of 1957 Pulitzer Award winners: Wallace Turner and William Lambert local reporting with edition time not a Turner was born in 1921 in Titusville Fla spent his childhood and went to high school ln Mansfield Mo and received a bachelor of journalism degree from the University of Missouri In 1943 He went to the Portland Oregonian ln August of that year after working briefly for the Springfield Mo Dally News I What are the Pulitzer Prizes? When the late Joseph Pulitzer established the' Prizes 1 ln Journalism' an Letter he Intended that they go only to works that met his creed voiced ln the North American Review ln 1904 OUR BEpUBLIC an(p lts press will rise or faU together An able disinterested public-spirited press with trained Intelligence to know the right and courage to do It can preserve that public Virtue without which popular government Is a sham and a mockery cynical mercenary demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself The power to mold the future of the republic will be in the hands of the Journalists of future HE MEANT THE prizes to be In recognition of the best effort of the finest craftsmen in the field he loved and dominated as publisher first of The St Louis Post-Dispatch and later of The New York World He placed trust In Columbia University to aee that only works meeting this ideal were given the awards In the intervening years receipt of the Pulitzer Prize has come to carry with It a prestige unequaled by any other honor ln the fields it covers comparable only to the Nobel Prize in the sciences in Journalism the prizes wre awarded by the Columbia University board of trustees on recommendation of an advisory board comprised 6f professional Journalists many of them former Pulitzer Prize winners themselves This year the board members are: Grayson Kirk president of Columbia University Barry Bingham Louisville Courier-Journal Louisville Ky Hod-ding Carter the Delta Democtat-Hmes Greenville Miss Turner Catledge The New York Times Robert Choate The Boston Herald Gardner Cowles Cowles Magazines Inc New York Ferguson The Milwaukee Journal John Knight Knight Newspapers Inc Chicago Benjamin McKelway The Evening Star Washington DC Paul Miller Gannett Newspapers Inc Rochester NY Joseph Pulitzer Jr The St Louis Post-Dispatch Louis Selzer The Cleveland Press and John Ho-henberg secretary Columbia University It is because of the mature Judgment of such men as these all adherents to the creed of! the founder of the prizes that the Pulitzer Prize has come to'' mean to the professional alist and writer the acme of all professional prizes Milwaukee graduated from Prince-ton in 1925 and appointed Foreign Service officer the next year He served qjl over Europe befot-e his retirement In 1953 his last assignment being as ambassador to the Soviet Union Russell Jones International reporting Born In Minneapolis he attended school there and in StUIwater Mlimaiulworked for St Paul Dispatch and Stillwater Post before going to Congratulatory messages to uroP wth the Army ln 1942 The Salt Lake Tribune for receiving a Pultizer prize award He Joined the United Press In 1949 and served In I London Prague and Frankfurt before going to Budapest only a few weeks before the revolt broke out were received from several sources Monday Among those locally were from Gov George Dewey Clyde and Mayor Adiel Stewart Born In New York In 192L he was graduated from Am-hem and later studied and taught at Harvard 7 He has published two other books of poetry "The Beautiful in 1947 and "Cere-mony and Other in -1951 and received the Prix De Rome feUowshlp from the American Ahademy of Arts and Letters ln 1954 Tom Little Born ln FrankUn Tenn in 1898 he studied art at Watkins Insti-tute NashviUe Tenn from 1912 to 1915 and the Montgomery Bell Academy in Nashville hr 1917 'and ISIgrife served as a reporter on the Nashville Tennessean until 1923 and re-turned to NashviUe after a year with the New Tork Herald Trib- une Syndicate to serve as city editor from 1931 to 1937 when he became cartoonist Harry A Trask news Born in Roxbury Mass after graduation from high school ln 1944 became a mail clerk on the Boston Herald and Traveler After two years in the Navy beginning in 1946 he returned to the newspaper and In 1951 became an office boy in the photography department attending a photography school at night He was giveh a job in 1955 KENNETH ROBERTS ape- dal citation for historical novels in Kennebunk Maine -n 1885 he was graduated from CorneU University In 1908 after election to Phi Beta Kappa and ias received honorary degrees from a number of colleges A reporter and columnist on the Boston Post from 1909 to 1917 he also served the staff of Life and Puck Magazines and was European and Washington correspondent for the Saturday Evening Post which he left In 1930 to write his first novel "Arundel" Other novels include Lively Lady "Rabble in "Captain Passage" Wlswell" and "Lydia Bailey LAMBERT born in Lang-fordA SD in 1920 moved to Oregon in 1937 attended high school in West Linn and after graduation spent five years in the infantry winning a field commission vand leaving active duty as a captain He Joined the Oregonian as a reporter in early 1951 after five years on the Oregon City Banner-Courier and the merged Bannier-Courier and Enterprise Eugene drama greatest dramatist was born in New York in 1888 at 43rd and Broadway now the heart of the theater district died in 1953 In addition to four Pulitzer Prizes he won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1936 His "Beyond the won the Pulitzer Prize In 1920 "Anna in 1922 and "Strange ln 1928 James Reston national Publisher Lauds' Tribune 6 Team -F Fitzpatrick publisher of The Salt Lake Tribune Issued the following statement in connection with the winning of a Pulitzer Prize Monday "It is indeed a great honor for The Salt Lake Tribune that its staff has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for local reporting of the Grand Canyon air collision disaster "Coverage was well planned and skillfully carried out The distance Involved time element and inaccessibility of terrain presented a tremendous challenge which was met by the staff "I am proud of -each and every member of splendid team" GRAND CANYON and the site of the crash is about 425 miles south of Salt Lake- City The region is desolate with practically no communication and it was impossible until Army helicopters were brought in for anyone 'to reach the crash sites Only the most experienced mountain climbers were able to reach the area The Tribune also received a tation by the Associated Press Managing Editors Assn for its co-operation in making Its entire staff output on the crash story available to the Associated Press The chartered plane also carried Frank Wetzel of the Salt Lake AP staff to the site Department editors headline writers rewrite men copy readers and the art staff worked almost "round the to get the Information The Tribune's newsroom became the nationwide center for filing both pictures and reports Hundreds of calls were answered by The information service Reporters In various bureaus were alerted to provide possible information on casualties When it was learned that a TWA stewardess was a Pocatello Idaho native the background information was quickly available Sen John Kennedy (D- Mass) biography Bom ln Gov George Clyde day added his congratulations 6 V)n(on Sool of to The Salt Lake Tribune for I Wa radut1 gaining the prized PuUtzer ta Award JIto He was aPT boat com "Congratulations to The Salt PacIfl? trom 1941 Lake Tribune for Its winning Cor of a Pulitzer Prize for outstand- SJ? r( lng local reporting The cover- cover 5 San age of the terrible air disaster th over the Grand Canyon was a BrfUsh distinguished piece of co-opera- Potslam meeting tive reporting by a trained and Uk-1 To member of alert staff of newspaper people Representatives "The PuUtzer Award Wchen he honor to the whole state of term the Senate-Utah and even more important Puor editorial writ-it emphasizes the fine quality nBorn on arm in west of JoumaUsm with which we Georgia ln 1909 he Was gradu-are served daily The Tribune ated rom Mercer University at Is performing a real service to acon 1929 after majoring in the state" JoumaUsm He worked for the i(Til Macon Telegraph and Macon It is very commendable that News until 1952 -when he be-Salt Lake City should- be the came an FBI agent In 1946 he home of a newspaper which has became editor of the Macon been awarded a coveted PuUtzer Telegraph and ln 1947 publisher Prize for local Mayor Adiel Stewart made of the Tuscaloosa News Richard Wilbur poetry Named PuUtzer Prize winners were James Reston left New York Tunes for national reporting George Thlem Chicago Dally News meritorious publlo service Eugene O'Neill playwright Buford Boone Tuscaloosa News editorial writing and Kenneth Roberts special award for historical novels They were among number who were named for coveted awards Biography Sen Kennedy Wins Award NEW YORK May 6 Sen John Kennedy was and Monday that his best-selling "Profiles in won a Pulitzer Prize for biography The Massachusetts Democrat said news that his book had won the coveted letters award "came as a great surprise I be more pleased I be more The senator was In New York to speak Monday night to the 18th annual awards dinner of the Overseas Press Club of America he said "was an i attempt to tell the American public through the lives of eight senators something of the prob lems and pressures of American political life "It was also an attempt to remind all of us ln politics of the standard of (Courage and I Integrity of our He added: think that we have gone through a period ln this country where politics was held ln low esteem-People'' now are begin-ning to realize' more and more what a political life is and what it can this statement ln commending The Salt Lake Tribune for winning the prize for local reporting under pressure of "deadline" time for its coverage of the collision of two giant airliners over Grand Canyon "The awarding of the Pulitzer Prize would Indicate the alertness and accuracy of The Salt Lake Tribune staff In presenting this dramatic tragedy to the readers" he said TrlbUna Waihlngton Bureau WASHINGTON May 6-Two I members of the Utah congressional delegation in Washington sent congratulations to The Tribune for its winning a PuUtzer prize "This recognition coming to I The Salt Lake Tribune for its outstanding coverage of the Qrand Canyon plane crash is well said Rep-WU-Uam A Dawson (R-Utah) "It gives aU of us who depend upon this fine newspaper for nformation that satisfaction knowing Its high standards of news Coverage have been recognized by the PuUtzer commit-1 thought It was a wonderful I 1 eat of news coverage under most difficult said Sen Arthur Watkins I 1 R-Utah) heartiest congratula- tions on a job weU 1 Your choice of: FHA Cl or BANK Loans to suit your Individual needs and repayment requirements ml a Others named were Georgs Kennan left history Bussell Jones United Press International reporting Sen John nl Security Sank of -But Security lank of Utah A Security lank el leek Syrint Wya Kennedy biography Richard Wilbur poetry and Tom Littlq of tho Nash villa Tennessean for editorial cartoon 1 i.