Pulitzer Awards

To U. S. journalists, writers and scholars last week went those much desired honors, the Pulitzer Prizes, awarded annually by the Trustees of Columbia University from the foundation of the late, great Joseph Pulitzer.

Journalism, To the Atlanta Constitution, a gold medal worth $500 for "most disinterested and meritorious public serv- ice": a probe, instigated by able Editor Clark Howell, of corruption in Atlanta's municipal government, resulting so far in eleven convictions and ten pleas of guilt to charges of fraud, bribery, etc. etc.

To Hubert R. Knickerbocker of the Philadelphia Public Ledger and the New York Evening Post, $500 for "the best example of correspondence during the year": articles on the operation of Russia's Five-Year Plan (TIME, Dec. 22).

To Charles S. Ryckman of the Fremont (Neb.) Tribune, $500 for the year's best editorial: "The Gentleman from Nebraska," an appreciation of Insurgent Senator George William Norris. Extract: "Norris does not represent Nebraska politics. He is the personification of a Nebraska protest against the intellectual aloofness of the East. A vote for Norris is cast into the ballot box with all the venom of a snowball thrown at a silk hat. The spirit that puts him over is vindictive, retaliatory. Another Senator might get Federal projects, administrative favor, post offices and pork barrel favor for Nebraska, but the State is contemptuous of these. For nearly two decades Norris has kept Nebraska beyond the pale of Federal favor, but his people consider him worth the price. George Norris is the burr Nebraska delights in putting under the Eastern saddle. He is the reprisal for all the jokes of vaudevillists, the caricatures of cartoonists and the jibes of humorists that have come out of the East in the last quarter of a century."

To Alexander Black MacDonald of the Kansas City (Mo.) Star, $1,000 for the year's best reportorial work: helping unearth Lawyer A. D. Payne's murder of his wife by blowing her to bits in his automobile in Amarillo, Tex. (TIME, Aug. 11).

To Edmund Duffy of the Baltimore Sun, $500 for the year's best cartoon: "An Old Struggle Still Going On" (a number of Communists atop a church, attempting to tear down the cross).

Letters. To Margaret Ayer Barnes, $ 1,000 for the best American novel: Years of Grace.

To Susan Glaspell, $1,000 for the best American play: Alison's House.

To Bernadotte Everly Schmitt, $2,000 for the best book upon the history of the U. S.: The Coming of the War.

To Henry James (son of the late great Philosopher William, nephew of the late great Novelist Henry James), $1,000 for the best American biography: Charles W. Eliot.

To Robert Frost, $ 1,000 for the best volume of verse: Collected Poems of Robert Frost.

Scholarships. To Frederick Daniel Zink of Zanesville, Ohio, David A. Davidson and Winston Phelps of New York, graduates of Columbia School of Journalism, $1,800 each to study for a year social, political and moral conditions in Europe, and the character and principles of the European press.

To Elliot Grims and Samuel Klein of New York, $1,800 each, for a year's study, respectively, of music and of art.

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