The Press: The Winners

This week Columbia University awarded the annual Pulitzer Prizes to:

¶ The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, for public service in its coverage of the Centralia, Ill. mine disaster.

¶ The Atlanta Journal's George E. Goodwin, for local reporting—exposure of the Telfair County vote frauds (TIME, March 17, 1947).

¶ The New York Herald Tribune's Bert Andrews, who forced the State Department to modify its high-handed security rules on its employees, and the Minneapolis Tribune's Nat S. Finney, who uncovered the Administration's peacetime censorship plan. Theirs was a joint award for distinguished reporting of national affairs.

¶ The Baltimore Sun's Paul Ward, for distinguished reporting of international...

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