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 affairs (life in the U.S.S.R.). The award for international news reporting was skipped, for the second year.
¶ The Richmond Times-Dispatch's Virginius Dabney, for editorials.
¶ The New York Sun's Rube Goldberg, for distinguished cartooning.
¶ The Boston Traveler's Frank Gushing, for outstanding news photography. The picture: a boy gunman using another youth as a shield (TIME, July 7).
Awards in letters:
¶ James A. Michener, for his novel Tales of the South Pacific; Tennessee Williams, for his play, A Streetcar Named Desire; Bernard De Voto, for his history Across the Wide Missouri; Margaret Clapp, for her biography Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow; to W. H. Auden, for his "baroque eclogue" Age of Anxiety; Walter Piston, for his Symphony No. 3.
The Post-Dispatch received a $500 gold medal; individual prize winners, $500 each.