Evening star., 1962-05-08
Succeed and O'Connor Book
Take 1862 Pulitzer Awards

NEW 1Oth0, MAY B lAP1-
4 smash Broadway takeoff on
modern American business and
q novel about an Irish-Ameri-
can priest In . rundown Boston
parish have won the 1862 Pulit-
zer Prizes for drama and fic-
tiDn. Z
The musical, How to Sue
eeed In Business Without Really
Trying" was written by Abe
Burrows. Jack Weinstock and
Willie Gilbert. with q score by
Frank Loesser. Edwin O'Con-
nor wrote the winning book,
The Edge Of Sadness"
How to Succeed" which
already had won awards from
the New York Drama Critics
Circle and the American The
alter Wing. stars Robert Morse
aS an aggressive young buSi-
nessman and Rudy Vallee as q
veteran tycoon.
Mr.. Burrows pictured the
award as "a kind Of confirma-
ton Of what we were trying to
eo-tell an American story
from o specific viewpoint"
The 46th annual Pulitzer
Prizes were awarded yesterday
hy the trustees Of Columbia
University on recommendation
Of the Advisory Board on Pu-
liter Prizes. They are ad-
miniStered by the Graduate
School Of Journalism under
terms Of the viii Of the late
publisher, Joseph Pulitzer.
For the first time, the
trustees made no award in
the category Of biography. It
was reported last night that
the trustees had turned down
Recommendation by. the adj
visory board for Citizen
Hearst" w. A. Swanberg's book
on the life Of the late publisher,
William Randolph Hearst.
Asked for comment on the
report. q Columbia University
spokesman said:
What transpired within the
Advisory Board on the Pulitzer
Prizes and the Board Of Trus-
tees Is not q matter Of public
record and therefore no COM
ment can be made on It,"
The spokesman said the uni
versity had notified the advis-
ory board Of the failure to
name q biography winner.
Florida Paper q Winner
The Panama City (FIa.)
News-Herald won the gold
plaque for meritorious public
service by q newspaper for its
three-year campaign against
entrenched corruption in the
Gulf Coast city and surround
ing bay county.
Walter Lppmann, 72-year-
old veteran New York Herald
Tribune syndicate writer, was
cited for the second time in
four years. this time for wise
and responsible international
reporting. He won q special
Pulitzer citation In 1858.
The 1862 prize for news
photography went to Paul
Vathis of, the Harrisburg (Pa.)
bureau Of the Associated Press
for q picture Of President Ken
nedy and former Presidentj
Dwight D. Eisenhower. aIel
showed tinena with heads bowed,
backs "a the camera, during q
conferences at Camp David, Nd, I
on April az, 1861.
It was the fifth Pulitzer Prize
IN photography won by Associ-
ated Press staffers. /
Theodore H. White, who
celebrated his 47th birthday on
Sunday, became the first win
ner In D new Pulitzer Prize
category for general nom -fictionI
with "The Making Of the Presi-
dent 1860" an account of the ,
last presidential campaign.
II just feel good that a
Journalistic book has beenI !
recognized in the awards" Mr..
White said.
Takes History Prize
The prize for history went to !
Lawrence H. Gipson, 81-year-
old historian at Lehigh Univer- /
sity, for "The Triumphant EN-
pire: Thunderclouds Gather In !
the West, 1763-1766, !" volume 10
Of a series dealing with the 4
British Empire before the
American revolution.
The music prize was won by ,
Robert Ward. A year -old /
Cleveland-born artist now liv- ,
ing in Nyack, N. Y, for THE
Crucible, q three-act opera ,
first performed October 26.
1861, at New York City Center. ,