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Jan Kiepura, star of the Manhattan revival of The Merry Widow, as a patriotic whim sings an out-of-show Polish folk song in the middle of the performance. When a visiting Polish Pestka (WAC) was moved to tears, a portly, white-haired man seated beside her spoke sympathetically: "I expect Poland to be free again." After the show he stopped the Pestka, shook her hand, urged: "Keep your chin up." Gratefully, she asked if she might know his name. "Of course. It's Hoover—Herbert Hoover."
Prized
Daniel De Luce, amiable, able Associated Press war correspondent, who last year scored with his dispatches datelined "A Partisan Brigade Headquarters, in Yugoslavia" (TIME, Oct. 18), was awarded $500 on the recommendation of Columbia University's School of Journalism Pulitzer Prize Committee —"for a distinguished example of telegraphic reporting on international affairs. . . ." Other $500 Pulitzer Prize winners:
Ernie Pyle, Scripps-Howrard Newspaper Alliance war correspondent, famed for his reporting of the human side of the Tunisian and Italian campaigns;
Clifford K. Berryman, Washington (D.C.) Evening Star cartoonist, for But Where Is The Boat Going? — a biting cartoon on the manpower-mobilization muddle.
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, for the Theater Guild operetta smash hit Oklahoma!
Martin Flavin, for his American novel Journey in the Dark.
Sergeant Karl Shapiro, poet (Person, Place and Thing), now in the South Pacific, who just won a $2,500 Guggenheim fellowship, received a $1,000 grant from the American Academy and the National Institute of Arts and Letters. So did:
Eudora Welty, short-story writer (A Curtain of Green) and novelist;
Bob Hope, radio's far-traveling, top-ranking comedian, received a special citation as a George Foster Peabody radio-award winner for 1943: "The joy and strengthened morale which he has given to the men and women of the armed forces cannot be measured." Other Peabody winners:
Edward R. Murrow, chief of CBS's European news bureau, for "outstanding reporting of the news. . . ."
Cecil B. De Mille's Lux Radio Theater, for "outstanding entertainment in drama."