Evening star., 1948-05-04
N.LouisPost- st-Dispatch
Is Awarded Pulitzer
Prize for Newspapers
by the Assoeio,ed Press

NEW YORK, May 4.-The St.
Louis Post-Dispatch yesterday won
for the third time-the Pulitzer
prize for American newspapers.
The paper, which won the award
In 1887 and l941, was selected as the
newspaper rendering the most dis
tin8uished and meritorious public
service" in the past year.
1t was cited for its coverage of
the mine disaster at Centralia. H.,
and its subsequent campaign which
led to impressive reforms in mine
safety laws and regulations"
Pulitzer prizes for 1948 also went
to Tales of the South Pacific
novel by James A. Michener and to
"A Streetcar Named Desire" play
by Tennessee Williams.
The novel, based on Mr.. Niche
ners experiences in the Pacific dur
ing the war, was chosen as the most
distinguished fiction written in this
country in the past year.
Mr.. Williams play, a Broadway
hit which also won the New York
drama critics Circle prize, deals
with the degeneration of a neurotic
woman in New Orleans. 1t was
picked as the best original Ameri-
can play.
Winners Receive $500.
The prizes were among IA Pulitzer
awards announced by DR.. Frank D.
Fackenthal, acting president of Co
lumbia University.
Individual winners of prizes re-
ceive $500 each. The winning news
paper receives a gold medal valued
at $500.
The awards were provided for in
the will Of Joseph Pulitzer, former
publisher of the New York World
and st. Louis Post Dispatch.
1948 winners in the field of letters:
Most distinguished book of history
Of the United States-Bernard de
Voto, for his Across the Wide
Missouri"
Most distinguished American biog-
raphy - Margaret Clapp, for her
Forgotten First Citizen: John
Bigelow." The author, a native of
East Orange, N. j., was graduated
from Wellesley College in 1880 and
received her doctor of philosophy
degree from Columbia in 1916.
Most distinguished volume of verse
W. H. Auden, for his Age of
Anxiety"
Music Prize to Harvard Professor.
The prize for music was won by
Walter Piston, a native of Rockland,
Me, and professor of music at Har-
ward University. He won the award
for his Symphony No g." per-
formed for the first time by the
Boston Symphony Orchestra last
January.
In the journalism field:
Distinguished example of local re-
porting-George E. Goodwin, staff
writer of the Atlanta Journal.
Mr., Goodwin, 30, won the prize
for his stories exposing vote frauds
in Telfair County, Ga, in the gen.
eral election of November 5, 1916.
Distinguished reporting on ma
tional affairs-awards won by Bert
Andrews, chief of the New York
Herald Tribunes Washington bu-
reau since l94l, and Nat S. Finney
of the Minneapolis Tribune.
Mr.. Andrews won the prize for a
series of documented stories telling
how A State Department employe
was dismissed after an FBI inves-
tigation without being informed of
the nature of the charges against
him.
The award to Mr.. Finney was
made for his stories describing a
Truman administration plan to i'm
pose censorship on ordinary aCtiv-
tiles of Federal civilian agencies in
peacetime.
Winners Include Paul w. Ward.
Distinguished example of report
ing of international affairs-Paul
w. Ward, AZ, correspondent for the
Baltimore Sun, for series of arti-
cles on life in the Soviet Union.
Distinguished editorial writing
Virginius Dabney, AT, editor of the
Richmond Times-Dispatch, for gen.
eral editorial writing.
Distinguished example of car
toonists work-Ruben L. (Rube)
Goldberg, "a, of the New York Sun
He won the prize for a cartoon
called Peace Today"
Outstanding example Of news
photography-Frank Cushing, 80, of
the Boston Traveller, for his pho
tograph entitled Boy Gunman and
Hostage"
The picture showed a 15-year- old
delinquent using another frightened
boy as a shield while he exchanged
shots with police in an alley.