The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-05-07
Two Newspapermen
Get Pulitzer Prizes
Sports Writer on N Y Herald Tribune Did Best Job in
Reportorial Field in 1884


! for his four-volume study Of "R.
E. Lee"
Gold Medal Award
The Sacramento, CAL, Bee re-
ceived the gold medal for the
most disinterested and meritori-
Gus service by an American news
paper" Articles written by AS
sociate Editor Arthur Waugh ex-
posed the powerful Wingfield poll
teal machicne in Reno, New. The
newspaper received complaints
against the nomination. of Frank
H. Norcross to the U. S. Circuit
Court of Appeals and Waugh's
articles led to a senate hearing and
subsequent dropping of Norcross'
nomination.
The best example of "a cartoon
lists work was by Ross A. Lewis in
the Milwaukee Journal. 1t ap-
peared September / under the cap
ton Sure, I'll Work For Both
Sides" y
No prize was awarded for the
best editorial as none was deemed
sufficiently distinguished.
Audrey Wurdemann, wife of Jo-
seph Auslander, won the poetry
prize with her voluUe Of poems,
Bright Ambush"
A scholarship in music, worth
$500 was awarded to Samuel
Barber, New York. A similar
scholarship in art went to Eileen
Ortlip, Fort Lee, N. j.
The following were awarded
travelling scholarships for journal
ism:
Elwood M. Thompson, Lincoln,
Neb.; August Loeb, Shreveport,
La; and Joseph P. Ciszek, New
York. Alternates named were Ma
rie T. Sauer, Elizabeth, N. j., and
Leo M. Friedman, New York.
Taylor's award for his graphic
dispatches on the cup races was
recognition for his basic knowledge
of yachts and yachting. He was
reared in New Bedford, Mass, port
of sailing ships. At an early age
he learned to sail small craft. Tay-
lor was graduated from Dartmouth
college in 1928 and entered news
paper work Immediately.
Krock served in all grades of
newspaper work and became q
Washington correspondent at "a.
In 1918 he went to Paris to report
the peace conference and on his
return became editor-in-chief of
the Louisville Times. Later he
Joined the staff of the New York
World as assistant to the presi-
dent, Ralph Pulitzer. He went to
the New York Times in 1927.
Miss Johnson, native of Kirk
wood, Mo-, was known as a short
story writer before Now in No
vember" appeared last September.
Miss Atkins, also a native of Mis-
souri,, reached the climax of her
career with the Pulitzer award. She
enjoyed a long career with many
Broadway plays before 1.-THE Old
Maid" was singled out for fame.
Announcement of the awards
was made by DR. Nicholas Murray
Butler, president of Columbia uni
versity, at a dinner of the Column
bia University School of Journal
ism alumni. Premature publica-
ton of winners in past years led
to the unusual precautions to keep
! the awards secret. No printed
releases were distributed in adj
vance and the usual practice of
| notifying winners beforehand was
| dropped.
Yale Prof Is Victor
New Haven, Conn.,, May r.
| (UP)-Charles Mclean Andrews,
awarded the Pulitzer history prize,
is professorsemeritus of American
history at Yale and a recognized
authority on Colonial history.
He, is a native of Wethersfield
and a descendant OF William An
drews, one of the first settlers of
New Haven. He is 70 and first
vice president of the New Haven
Colony Historical society.
His prize winning history, "The
Colonial Period In American His
tory" is an elaboration of 1.-THE
Stokes Lectures" which he pub
lished in 1898.
He Is q graduate of Trinity Col
lege, 1884 and was awarded a doc
tor OF laws degree there In 1905.
Johns Hopkins and Lehigh unlver-
sity honored him with doctor OF
philosophy and doctor OF laws de-
grees In 1889 and 1884 respective.
ly.
He came TO Yale ms Farnam
professor OF American history IN
1910 from Johns Hopkins and re-
tired from the faculty In 1898.
He IL the author OF a number
Of volumes on Colonial history and
was cooperating editor OF the
Cambridge History Of the British
Empire, printed In England In
1899.
Upon the death OF FORMER Presi.
dent Woodrow Wilson he succeed.
I'd 20 the presidency OF the Amori.
can Historical Association
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