Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-05-03
BY the Associotsd Press

NEW 4oItA, way Or ullVzSA
Prizes have been awarded to
Death of Salesman" the smash
Broadway hit, and to Guard OF
Honor" a novel about a wartime
Air Force general.
The writer's were named yester-
day by the trustees of Columbia
University-James Gould Cozzens.
As, as the outstanding novelist of
1948, and Arthur Miller, 80, as
the outstanding dramatist.
Robert E. Sherwood received an
award for his intimate biography,
Roosevelt and Hopkins"
The Pulitzer Committee decided
that the Nebraska State Journal
of Lincoln, Nebr., rendered the
most disinterested and meritori-
GUS service" among the Nations
newspapers. The Journal was
honored for promoting a presi-
dental preference primary.
Outstanding Local Reporting.
A New York Sun series by NAL
colin Johnson on waterfront crime
was adjudged the years outstand-
ing example of local reporting by
a newspaperman. 2
These awards, and others for
outstanding work in the fields of
journalism, letters and music, were
made by the Columbia trustees on
recommendation of the Advisory
Board of the Graduate School of
Journalism.
The awards-given for the 32d
year-were established in 1917
through a gift of $4,000, 900 made
to Columbia University by the late
Joseph Pulitzer, former publisher
of the New York World and the
st. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Fourth Award to Sherwood.
A cash award of $500 is given
each individual winner, and $500
gold plaque to the winning news
paper. The drama award covers
the year from April /. 1948, to
April I, 1949, and all other awards
are for the calendar year 1913.
Mr.. Sherwood was the only pre-
vious winner on this years list
He received prizes in the field Of
drama in 1886, 1889 and 1941.
The music award went to Virgil
Thomson, SO. music critic of the
New York Herald Tribune, for the
accompaniment to louisiana
Story" documentary film on the
drilling of an oil well in the Loui-
siana bayous. It was the first
time the committee had awarded a
prize to music connected with q
motion picture.
Oldest Man to Win.
Lutte Pease, 80-year-old car
toonist and the oldest man ever
to win a Pulitzer Prize in that
field, was honored for a cartoon
in the Newark Evening News. The
cartoon showed a broken window
pane labeled Goal Strike" with a
lower line saying ~. S. Economy
A judge was shown pointing a
finger at John L. Lewis, United
Mine Workers president, who was
asking innocently, who, me?"
Two newspapermen won prizes
for the years best editorials, in
the first joint award of its kind
since 1896. The winners were
John H. Order, 43, editor in chief
of the Boston Herald. and Her.
bert Elliston, So, English BORN
editor of the Washington Post.
c. P. TruSsell of the New York
Times received a prize for excel
lence in covering the national
scene from Washington.
Baltimore Sun Writer.
Price Day of the Baltimore Sun,
was honored for a series of articles
on midas first year of independ-
ence. which was adjudged the best
reporting on international affairs.
The newspaper photography
award went to Nathaniel Fein of
the New York Herald Tribune. for
a picture of the late Babe Ruth.
The picture, entitled Babe Ruth
Bows Out" showed Ruth. bat in
hand, as he was honored at the
Yankee Stadium shortly before
his death.
1.-THE Disruption of American
Democracy" an historical study of
the political crisis that led up to
the Civil War. won q prize for
Roy Franklin NicholS of the UNI
versfty of Pennsylvania.
Peter Veireck of Mount Holyoke
College. South Hadley, Mass, was
honored for Terror and Deco
rum" a collection of his poems
published in magazines.
The award to the Nebraska
State Journal and its editor. Ray
mond A. Mcconnell, jr. was for