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Besides pride and pleasure Pulitzer Prizes generally generate a good deal of professional controversy. The 1934 awards made last week at Columbia University were no exceptions. Losers made almost as much news as winners when the recommendations of special juries to pick the best novel, the best history and the best play (see p. 48), were overridden by the prize-awarding board. Only in the field of journalism did there seem to be a notable unanimity of choice. Yet no award was more astonishing than that of the $500 gold medal "for the...
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