The Press: For Distinction

Pulitzer Prizes, awarded annually by Columbia University, went this week to:

The Omaha World-Herald, for public service (a scrap-collecting campaign).

The New York Times's Hanson Baldwin, for articles on a Pacific tour.

Forrest Seymour, the Des Moines Register & Tribune, for distinguished editorials.

Novelist Upton Sinclair, for Dragon's Teeth.

Playwright Thornton Wilder, for The Skin of Our Teeth.

The Associated Press's Frank Noel, for outstanding news photography.

Ira Wolfert, North American Newspaper Alliance, for distinguished international affairs reporting.

The Chicago Daily News's George Weller for a story about an appendectomy performed by a pharmacist's mate in a submerged submarine.

Jay N. ("Ding") Darling, New York Herald...

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