The Press: Pulitzer Prizes

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¶For photography, Flint (Mich.) Journal Photographer William M. Gallagher, who got a memorable photograph out of a routine assignment with his campaign picture of Presidential Candidate Adlai Stevenson which showed a hole in his shoe.

¶ For "enlightenment and intelligent commentary," a special citation to the New York Times Sunday "News of the Week in Review" (Section 4).

Other Pulitzer awards in arts & letters ($500 each):

¶William Inge, for his play, Picnic. Ernest Hemingway, his first Pulitzer, for his novel, The Old Man and the Sea, which was first published in LIFE (TIME, Sept. i).

¶George Dangerfield, for his The Era of Good Feelings, a history of the presidential administrations of James Monroe and John Quincy Adams, from 1817 to 1829. C| David J. Mays, lawyer and historian, for his two-volume biography, Edmund Pendleton, 1721-1803, a Virginia judge, statesman and political leader.

¶ Archibald MacLeish, for his Collected Poems, 1917-1952, his second Pulitzer. (His first, in 1933, was for Conquistador.) The Pulitzer committee gave no award for music.