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After their series appeared, Neumann and Marimow received hundreds of phone calls and letters from citizens claiming that they too had been unjustly assaulted by police. The reporters are now working full time on those complaints. Says Inquirer Metropolitan Editor John Carroll: "As long as the police are beating people, we're going to cover it."
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For the first time since Publisher Joseph Pulitzer endowed the awards in 1917, three were given to staffers of a single newspaper, the New York Times. Correspondent Henry Kamm, 52, won the international reporting prize for articles on the plight of Vietnamese refugees. Columnist William Safire, 48, and a bestselling novelist (Full Disclosure), was cited for his pieces on Bert Lance's financial dealings. Walter Kerr, 64, was singled out for his urbane theater criticism.
As usual, the Pulitzers were not without controversy. One of the photo awards went to the wrong man. The other went to Freelancer J. Ross Baughman for his Associated Press pictures of Rhodesian guerrillas, even though the shots had missed an Overseas Press Club award because some of the judges had doubts about their authenticity; the A.P. and Baughman stood by the pictures. And as in previous years, Pulitzer screening judges in several categories complained publicly that the final selection board had ignored their recommendations, although the panel is free to do so under the rules.