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Even before the latest Pulitzers were announced, criticism of another sort came from John McCormally, editor of the Burlington, Iowa, Hawk-Eye and himself a 1965 prizewinner and former juror. In the current issue of the journalism review [More], McCormally argues for a more venturesome attitude on the prize givers' part. As a Pulitzer juror last year, he complains he was expected to scrutinize 134 entries within nine hours. McCormally claims that such a system "allows for some pretty good journalism to get lost." More importantly he contends that the selection group is too narrowly based to encompass all that is new and vital in journalism. For the sake of diversity he would add such nonjournalists as Jesse Jackson, Saul Alinsky, Daniel Berrigan and Spiro Agnew.