The Press: Medals from Missouri

Last month the American Society of Newspaper Editors was told that the University of Missouri's school of journalism is best in the U. S. (TIME, April 28).

_ Gathering about itself the cloak of dignity thus bestowed, the school last week arose and, in turn, named the New York Times Best U. S. Newspaper; awarded it the school's first gold medal, "the highest recognition which we can give ... for distinguished service in our own profession." At Columbia, Mo., Arthur Hays Sulzberger, vice president of the Times, accepted the medal from Dr. M. Walter...

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