The Pulitzer Prize committee's awards for journalism in recent years have honored mediocrity almost as often as merit. The committee's selections for 1957, announced last week, rewarded the top performers ($1,000 each) in a stellar year.
The prize for "disinterested and meritorious public service" went to the Chicago Daily News for its expose of Illinois State Auditor Orville Hodge's massive ($2,500,000) embezzlement (TIME, July 23). Prizewinners for local reporting 1) "in which edition time is not a factor" were Portland Oregonian Reporters Wallace Turner, 36, and William Lambert, 37, for breaking the conspiracy...
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