The Press: Pulitzer Prizes

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When Joseph Pulitzer's great New York World fell into the hands of Scripps-Howard two years ago to be merged into the New York World-Telegram, the new owners had to reckon with the resentment that is directed at anyone who has a hand in scrapping a respected newspaper. As defense against the charge of "Munseyism"* Publisher Roy Wilson Howard declaimed: "The consolidation means not the death of the New York World but its rebirth." Last week Scripps-Howard could point with pride to evidence of its sincerity. The World-Telegram was awarded the 1932...

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