Mr. Pulitzer's Prize

Ever since the late great Joseph Pulitzer's death in 1911, his St. Louis Post-Dispatch under his son and namesake, now 67, has maintained its tradition for digging beneath the news and exposing malefactors. Using its sharp nose for hidden news, the P-D (circ. 400,218) has already won four Pulitzer Prizes for "disinterested and meritorious public service rendered by a U.S. newspaper," more than any other daily. This week the P-D cinched its title by winning the Pulitzer Prize* again for its outstanding digging throughout 1951.

Reporter Ted Link headed a task force that spaded up paydirt in St. Louis' American Lithofold Co., and turned over enough stones in the RFC and Bureau of Internal Revenue to prove that both were acrawl with graft and influence peddling. As a direct result, National Democratic Party Boss Bill Boyle had to quit his job, and St. Louis' Internal Revenue Collector

Jim Finnegan, who resigned under fire, was sentenced to two years in prison and fined $10,000 for misconduct in office (TIME, Aug. 6, et seq.).

Other Pulitzer awards far 1951, raised from $500 to $1,000 each for the first time this year:

P: For editorial writing, St. Louis Globe-Democrat's Louis LaCoss, 62, veteran of 16 years on the paper's editorial page, for his editorial "The Low Estate of Public Morals."

P: For national reporting, the New York Times's bushy-browed, diligent Washington Correspondent Anthony Leviero, who went to work full time at 14, started out as a police reporter, served as a World War II intelligence officer (lieutenant colonel),/- and now frequently covers the

White House. Watching General MacArthur's homecoming address to Congress, Tony Leviero shrewdly guessed that President Truman might want to publish his side of the foreign policy argument by releasing the secret minutes of the Truman-MacArthur Wake Island meeting. Levi-ero's hunch was right, and he got an exclusive story from the White House that made front pages all over the U.S. (TIME, April 30, 1951).

P: For local reporting, San Francisco Chronicle's George de Carvalho, who was born in Hong Kong and knows San Francisco's Chinatown intimately. He was the first to expose the Chinese Communist extortion racket (TIME, Nov. 26 et seq.). After Carvalho reported that Chinese-Americans were being bilked for ransom to get their relatives out of jail in Red China, federal investigators went after the racket.*

P: For reporting on international affairs, Associated Press's John M. Hightower, 42, chief diplomatic correspondent. A quiet, modest reporter, Hightowers levelheaded coverage of the State Department is so good that in the past month he also won the Raymond Clapper Award and Sigma Delta Chi's prize for outstanding coverage. P:For cartooning, New York Daily Mirror's Fred L. Packer, whose winning cartoon (TIME, Oct. 15) lampooned Truman's confusing press conference remarks about the press handling of classified information. Its caption: "Your editors ought to have more sense than to print what I say!"

P: For news photography, the Des Moines Register & Tribune's Cameramen John Robinson and Don Ultang ($500 each), whose six shots of the Drake-Oklahoma A. & M. football game showed Drake Star Johnny Bright getting punched so hard by an A. & M. player that his jaw was broken (TIME, Nov. 5). P: Special citations were awarded to the Kansas City Star for its resourceful and dramatic coverage of the Midwest floods last year (TIME, July 30 et seq.) and New York Journal-American's Sports Editor Max Kase, for turning up an exclusive story on a Manhattan basketball bribery ring (TiME, Mar. 5, 1951).

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

P:Herman Wouk for his novel The Caine Mutiny.

Joseph Kramm, for his play The Shrike. <1 Harvard Professor Oscar Handlin, for The Uprooted, a history of immigrants in the U.S.

CJ Washington Post Associate Editor Merlo J. Pusey, for his biography Charles Evans Hughes.

P: Poet Marianne Moore, for her Collected Poems.

P: Composer Gail Kubik, for his Symphony Concertante.

* Established by Pulitzer's will in 1917 and awarded by Columbia University's trustees on the recommendation of advisory committees under the School of Journalism. The present Joseph Pulitzer, a member of Columbia's committee, did not vote on this particular award. /- He picked the name of "Ranger" for U.S. Commandos. * One result: last week in New York, the editor and ex-managing editor of the Chinese-language Communist China Daily News were' indicted on 53 criminal charges in helping "an international racket entailing murder,, extortion, torture and, in general, commerce in human misery."

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