Distinction Under Fire

Foreign correspondents, most of them in the Korean war, marched off with top working-press honors (and $500 apiece) this week in the 1950 Pulitzer Prize award list. Instead of one award for international reporting, there were six. The six:

The New York Herald Tribune's Marguerite Higgins and Homer Bigart (a two-time winner, TIME, Aug. 27, 1945 et seg.); the Chicago Daily News's Keyes Beach and Fred Sparks; and Associated Press's Relman Morin and Don Whitehead. A.P.'s Max Desfor won the picture prize with a shot of refugees fleeing across a war-wrecked bridge in Korea; the New York Times's roving European correspondent, Cyrus Sulzberger, a special citation for his European interviews. On the home news front, .the Columbia University trustees gave no prize for national coverage.

Other awards:

For meritorious public service, the Miami Herald (for its gambling exposes) and the Brooklyn Eagle (for its pre-Kefauver stories on New York crime).

Best fiction: Conrad Richter, for his novel, The Town.

Biography: Margaret Louise Coit, for John C. Calhoun: American Portrait.

History: R. Carlyle Buley, for The Old Northwest; Pioneer Period, 1815-1840.

Poetry: Carl Sandburg, for Complete Poems.

Music: Douglas Stuart Moore, for a three-act opera, Giants In the Earth.

Local news reporting: The San Francisco Examiner's Edward S. Montgomery, for a series exposing corruption in the local Internal Revenue office.

Editorial writing: William Harry Fitzpatrick of the New Orleans States, for a series on the constitutional limits on U.S. treaties.

Cartooning: The Arizona Republic's Reginald ("Reg") Manning, for his cartoon, "Hats," contrasting the sleek toppers of U.N. diplomats with a G.I.'s bullet-punctured helmet.

For 1950 drama there was no award.

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