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18-A THE MIAMI HERALD Tuesday April 15 1980 Reporter Blais Wins 4th Pulitzer FROM PAGE I A Goodman was cited in the commentary category and William A Henry III won in the criticism category for his television reporting Bette Swenson Orsini and Charles Stafford of the St Petersburg (Fla) Times won the national reporting award for their investigation of the Church of Scientology The investigation of the church had been nominated in the public service award but the board moved it to the national reporting category Other 1979 Pulitzer Prize winners in journalism: Public Survicr Gannett News Service for series on the financial contributions to the Pauline Fa thers The service was cited for its journalistic resources including editorials cartoons and photo- graphs a international reporting: Joel Brinkley a reporter and Jay Mather a photographer of the Louisville Courier-journal for Ihetr stones from Cambodia a Editorial writing: Robert Bartley Wait Street Journal a Spot nows photography: "Firing Squad in Iran" submitted in the contest by United Press International and taken by a photographer whose name was not disclosed UPl cited possible danger to the photographer The Associated Press distributed the same picture when it was taken a Feature photography: Erwin Hagier Dallas Times Herald for a series on the cowboy Miami Herald Staff Madeleine Blais After inniii" 1'nlitzer fur Feature riling with er ram left Tropic editors l)on ft Hals Lry Bloom Lean Rosenblatt -MARY LOU FOY 16 Journalists Educators on Pulitzer Board NEW YORK (AP) The Pulitzer Prize Board which made the recommendations to Columbia University that resulted in Monday's Pulitzer Prizes consists of 16 journalists and educators The president is Clayton Kirkpatrick president and chief executive officer of the Chicago Tribune Others are Howard Hays Jr editor and co-publisher Riverside (Calif) Press-Enterprise John Hughes president of Hughes Newspapers Inc Richard Leonard editor and vice president of The Milwaukee Journal James Re- ston columnist for The New York Times: William McGill president of Columbia University Osborn Elliott dean of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism Also John Cowles Jr president of The Min neapolis Star and Tribune Co Hanna Gray president of the University of Chicago: Lee Hills editorial chairman of Knight-Ridder News papers Eugene Patterson editor and presi dent The St Petersburg (Fla) Times Warren Phillips chairman and chief executive of Dow Jones Co Joseph Pulitzer Jr editor and pub lisher St Louis Post-Dispatch William Rasp berry columnist The Washington Post Roger Wilkins formerly with The New York Times Thomas Winship editor of The Boston Globe Richard Baker a professor of journalism at Columbia served as the secretary Before making its recommendations the board had received reports from 18 juries consisting of 76 journalists and other members Except for the gold medal in the category of meritorious public service by a newspaper each award carries a prize of $1000 newspaper Robert Ingle Herald managing editor said he doubted that the honor for Blais' writing comes as a surprise to Tropic magazine's readers is clearly one of the most sensitive and penetrating magazine writers in the country Her work is typical of the dramatic improvement in quality that Lary Bloom and Doug Balz have brought to Tropic A lot of editors are envious of our maga- zine because it's one of the best in the country" Bloom is editor of Tropic Balz is associate editor Blais 32 joined the Tropic HIAASEN MONTALBANO ANDERSON CARLEBACH moon 'The fact that papers hare Kni'j ht-llidder iron 2-i Dalits-ers is no nr el lien I 11 Ite-llere tlml editorial eiel-lenee is irlmt this business is nil about' Ii'f Hills staff fulltime last year after having worked closely with the editors on free-lance stories Before joining The Herald Blais worked as a staff writer for The Boston Globe and The Trenton Times She attended the College of New Rochelle in -New Rochelle NY where she was editor of the student newspaper She won a fellowship to the Columbia University School of Journalism where she earned a degree in 1970 She is the author of a book The Sav You Can't Have a Baby published in 1979 by WW Norton The Herald won its first Pulitzer Prize for meritorious public service in 1951 for its reporting about organized crime in Miami under the leadership of then-Managing Editor Lee Hills Its second came-in 1967 when Gene Miller won the local investigative prize for reporting that helped to free two persons Mary Katherin Hampton and Joseph Shea who had been wrongfully convicted of murder Miller won a Pulitzer Prize for local reporting again in 1976 his persistent and courageous reporting over 8'2 years that led to the exoneration and release of two Freddie Pitts and Wilbert Lee They had twice been tried for murder and wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death Miller is the only reporter who has twice won Pulitzer Prizes for local reporting Hills now editorial chairman of Knight-Ridder Newspapers said The most recent award is of the continuing commitment by successive Herald editors to publish the superior newspaper in South Florida The fact that Knight-Ridder papers have won 23 Pulitzers is no accident We believe that editorial excellence is what this business is all about" Hills himself won a second Pulitzer Prize as editor of The Detroit Free Press in 1956 for coverage of United Auto Workers negotiations with Ford Motor Co and General Motors Another editor closely associated with The Herald John Knight formerly Herald publisher and now editor emeritus of Knight-Ridder Newspapers won a Pulitzer Prize for distinguished editorial writing in 1968 In the 1979 awards a second Knight-Ridder paper The Philadelphia Inquirer won its sixth straight Pulitzer Prize It was in the general local reporting category for its coverage of- the Three Mile Island nuclear accident near Harrisburg Pa The Inquirer has won more consecutive Pulitzers than any other paper except The New York Times which won nine awards in eight straight years 1940-1947' The Miami News' Don Wright won the 1979 prize for editorial cartoons his second The Boston Globe won three 1979 awards for special local reporting commentary and criticism That tied a New York Times record The Times won prizes for international reporting commentary and criticism in 1978 Stephen A Kurkjian Alexander Hawes Jr Nils Bruzclius Joan Vennochi and Robert Porterfield of The Globe received the special local reporting prize for their series on Boston's transit system Ellen Across by John Unruh Biography: Bernard Berensnn the Making of a Connoisseur by Ernest Samuels Being Bernard Beren-son by Meryle Secrest and 7 hr Duke of Deception bv Geoffrev Wolff General Non-Fiction: The Madwoman in the Attic by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar and The Medusa and the Snail by Lewis Thomas Music: Quintets for Orchestra by Lukas Foss premiered by the Cleveland Orchestra and After the Butterfly by Morton Subotnick as performed at the Los Angeles County Museum In drama no other nominees were reported It was explained that the nominating jury in that category reported to the prize board only the winning play Been in the Storm So Lofig is Lit-wack's study of the end of slavery from the slaves' point of view Morris tells of Theodore Roosevelt's life as a naturalist sportsman cowboy historian soldier socialite and politician before he became at 42 the 26th president Hofstadter won with a book of mathematical philosophy He explores the insights of mathemati- cian Kurt Godel and tells of their reverberation through the works of the Dutch artist MC Escher and the renowned composer Johann Sebastian Bach Justice's Selected Booms published last year is a compilation of 90 poems including many drawn from his earlier books of verse Del Tredicl's musical work Is a composition for solo soprano and orchestra commissioned by the St Louis Symphony for its lOOih anniversary This summer Braniff will fly you non-stop to Rio with direct service from there to Sao Paulo's city airport Congonhas Every Braniff flight will be a big 747 or 747SP the most advanced 747 in the sky These Special Performance jets fly higher faster and farther than anv other i ly decorated with real leather seats Braniff 's new non-stops will take off every Sunday Monday Wednesday and Fridav at 9:30 pm And you can go through customs in Rio or Sao Paulo if flying through For information and reservations call your Travel Agent or Braniff in Miami at 358-9400 in Fort Lauderdale at 525-8401 Braniff Promise 2: We promise to provide frequent schedules throughout the US and to Europe Asia Mexico and South America Wins Fiction Prize mm) better be better in A Tne Pacific Mpxico Souin Aincnca Britain Europe Asia NEW YORK (AP) Norman Mailer's 7 he executioners Song story of the life and execution of Utah convict Gary Gilmore Monday won the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for fiction The book had been critically acclaimed but stirred controversy over the fact that Mailer and his publisher have termed it a work of fiction even though it tells of real people involved in real events The prize was Mailer's second Pulitzer he won in 1969 for his Armies of the Night in the non-fiction category Lanford Wilson won the drama prize for Talley's lolly a romantic comedy about a Jewish accountant who woos the daughter of an affluent family in Missouri The production by the Circle Repertory Company production opened off-Broad-way last May and moved to Broadway Feb 20 Other awards for letters and music were: History: Been in I he Storm So Long by Ieon Litwack Biography: 7 he Rise of I hen-dorc Roosevelt by Edmund Morris General Non-fiction: Godel I scher and Bath: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter Poetry: Selected Bovins by Donald Justice Music: In Memory of a Summer Day by David Del Tredici This vear for the first time the Pulitzer Prize board listed the other works recommended by the nominating juries in each calegory Mailer's novel bested I he Ghost Writer by Philip Roth and liirdy by William Wharton Other runnersup: History: The Crbon Crutible by Gary Nash and II tc Blums We Mainland.