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DETROIT FREE PRESS Tuesdav. Msv S. 1335 I I Peek BdunJ Lee Hills Wins A Pulitzer Prize TV's "Big Time Hit" If I THE1 1 HOUSEKEEPING SHOPS Continued from Page One stances." he said. "When both clammed up, these report-j erg used great resourcefulness to get at the facts. Journalism, honored Hill in 1951 for "hi leadership in finding new editorial techniques and setting new pattern for the improvement of today's (CURTAIN I RCA Vi CTOR i Honors "We at the Free Pres added the 'Curtain' column articles to our other efforts because we felt the public had a greater stake in the controversy than anybody else.

The meager statements issued by both sides didn't tell the whole storv." Hills was one of the first American newspapermen to be I awarded the Maria Moors Cabot -Jrize by Columbia University for "outstanding contribution to better inter-American relations." Former national president of the Associated Press Managing Beyond the Curtain: HE ATE ON THE FLY Hills Worked Price Performance! Outstanding I The Pulitzer award indicated Editors Association and of Sigma 'Round Series The Clod Oil clearly that Hills, who under, I Delta Chi. professional journalis-i moved around and peeked overiti. society, he has been active the "Curtain" to consistently in the Inter-American Press As-call the shot3," made the great-isociation. International Press estf contribution to the Free Institute, Michigan Press ''As-; Press' avowed wish to inform sociation and the Overseas and, BY FRANK AN'GELO rm tm Mntrtnr YA tnr National Press Clubs. Everything seems bo pat when the papers start rolling off the public th presses.

This became pertinent since, Last rnonin ne was eiecterj to make the both management and union ne-the Board of Directors of the couia reauy no to story "come alive" for all our gotiators had imposed a stringent) American Society of Newspaper In our business, we look at one edition and start to think of the next. Editors. i readers. inews blackout. And the story Negotiators fi-.

Since coming to Detroit in That idea awoke in him the was a big one. reportorial drive that editors so jnally agreed on the supplemental November, 1951, Hills has put benefits idea down strong- community roots. often resret they have had to (unemployment rio things. Ue are reluctant to L-hj-v, spread to many some of which led to his under- 1 tell the world the effort, the iother contracts. standing of last summer's labor negotiations.

FKOM THAT moment, and three weeks thereafter, Hills worked around the clock, asking! ASKED MANY times to ex hundreds of questions, probing, plain how the "Curtain" was ac checking, challenging. complished, Hills said: HE SERVES on the boards of directors of the United Foundation, United Community Services. Detroit chapter of the American Red Cross, Detroit Convention and Tourist Bureau, Economic Club, Metropolitan Detroit Building Fund. Providence Hospital iand the Free Press Fresh Air sweat and the downright hard work that goes into producing a newspaper or a story. If there ever was an example, however, of what really goes into making a treat newspaper, the effect it represents, the dedication that is so often Involved and the spirit with which so many things are done, it Is the work that Is-tt Hills put Into his Pulitzer Trize winning stories.

It all began because Lee Hills wondered, the day after the Ford Motor Co. made its first, offer last vr, what the Free Press Ve were so busy, I don't remember. I guess we just got up before the negotiators and went to bed after they did. Sometimes there wasn't any time left in between so we just stayed up and worked." He ate on the fly. But there; was always time to rush out for, another interview, for scores of: phone calls.

Every night, as one edition; after another came up, Hills wasj pounding the typewriter to get ai new lead, some more depth into the reporting so that Detroiters vV' I GianL 21 'sv Delivery and Hook-Up! 'Camp. First Pulitzpr sward came to i n. i i could know what was happening fhZ nf ls nn LIlr and whv i ot the Michigan Economic and flve reporters Douglas D. (Development Commission, Junior Hills literally lived in his Martin, James S. Fooler, William I Achievement and the Detroit fourth-floor office at the Fre C.

Richards, Frank D. Webb andigaes Executives Club and is a Press for a week at a time. He John N. W. Sloan was named imomh(1, tho AHr-mft mH for the top local reporting in 'tne Foreign Relations Committee ior coverage oi an American 0 Detroit Legion parade.

sent home for clean clothes; sent out for meals and razor blades. No one hut Lee knows how much sleep he actually got. He was up before the morning crw came to work, and he was still at it on the phone and at the The newspaper's second award Although an editor learly 20 years, his first love has always been reporting. was for "the most distinguished and meritorious public service I How Teens View Mob Incident award rendered by any American His career began as a reporter naTMicra nor rltnin ar ha v9 1 A.A" i tti.i. tVDewriter when the nurht staff 1 rlce uian paper aunnK 1 a nn 1 a ci It a fni'Orl fro rT 9 i went home in the wee hours.

nls coiiege ys. ne oecame It was a dramatic example of 7wJru" T' Tuw in 1926 and from 1929 to reporter with the invoetio'trivA ronnrt inrr nitycrinc: icoa "n-1 a It's like viewing from a BOX SEAT RIGHT OVER THIRD BASE with AMAZING RCA VICTOR TV for '56. You get a clearer, sharper picture bigger, brighter image richer, truer tone. And this BRAND NEW TOWNE SWIVEL CONSOLE moves from room to room on giant casters turns right or left for better head-on viewing! With wonderful RCA VICTOR engineering plus OUR GUARANTEE OF SATISFACTION you can't Continued from Tage One in to get story. And while Tne third award came to the Oklahoma City Times.

i.u. i Frpe Press last vear through I I hr it, Lim Liie iiJiuiniia a -i i fu in tne ti- i per anonymously, everyone on tne staff knew who was doinc tne an editorial writer. Rut what are his attitudes, goals, his achievements?" This tepn-ager called her work. Another Knight newspaper (The Chicago Daily News also AFTER STINTS as a copy reader, political writer and editorial writer, he moved into executive positions. A war correspondent in Europe during World War II.

he has theme. "My Neighbors Are Jury and a Judge." She would be willing to be; EYERYONE felt a great senfe has won Pulitzer awards of pride in the fact that the wrong! BETTER BUY NOW! Base Extra HILLS, A FAMED newspaper- made many reporting trips FREE SERVICE POLICY man, was born in Granville. N. D.j abroad to the Far East. Middle He attended Brigham Young East, Europe, Africa and Latin University and the University of America.

Ttf i "raniiyi anri 1c a laU'Vor ft a well juoeec, sne saui. on a ruu-uuw Frpp prpss wag tnp that home, wild parties that disturbed jwas Detroiters a distin-the neighbors, or if the children ishpd rep0rtirlg job on the found hpr "rnfan. iGAW And eryone felt a great sense RTT. SHE concluded: of satisfaction, with Lee Hills "The color of my skin, whether today, that the job was recog-white, yellow or black, should njZe(t with the top award of have absolutely no influence on journalism a Pulitzer Prize, my standing as a neighbor and EVERYM1IIUTES 24 Ho- fl Dof A 365 Dt Yew Smtt in hSt Detroit TrsKJiog Bjf Hlis an(j nis Wite, Haieen. are as newspaperman.

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