Ewspaper1 S Staff . Wins)F Ulitzer Prize

Ewspaper1 S Staff . Wins)F Ulitzer Prize

~~~ii!l!rr~ ., · .~·.\··'f . , ·.. · .. ... ,, ~ an ..J'raftritct Coanaiclt 3 eWspaper 1 s Staff_. Wins)f ulitzer Prize *Tues., Aprf 14, 198 1 I New York Publication was credited to the of international affairs for her The 29-member staff of the pf!rsistence of the Mrs. Toole. "I dispatches Jrom Central America. Longview (Wash.) Daily News won tried eight publishers and died eacti time' •hey returned it, because Mike Peters or' the Dayton the m8l Pulitzer Prize for general (Ohio) Daily News won the prize for reporUng y~rday for coverage of I really believed in it," she said yesterday. "I thought to myself, cartooning. Among cartoons specif· the et¥Ptions of Mount St. Helens. ically cited • was Qne . contrasting 'Th~ stupid publishers.' " The national reporting awa rd health warnings against saccharin But with the determination of 'with the lack of restrictions · on . ~nt. to John M. Crewdson of the N4fw York Times for his stories a proud · mother, she sent the pistols in this country. manuscript to novelist Walkei; Per­ about illegal alierts and immigra­ That cartoon featured a pic­ tion.-:· cy. He persuaded the Louisiana State University Press to publish it. ture of a pistol and a package of 'l'be Cha~lotte <N.CJ Obsenw A paperback version will be out saccharin. "This killed 9000 Ameri· took the gold medal for !\1eritorious soon. cans last year," read one section of the caption. "This killed.four \()bite Public Service for 2'l articles and 1 eigb(~torials calling attention to "I bad nothing else to live for," rats." it said of the saccharin. "Can the f!i}Ufe of government. industry' she said. "I had to hand it down for you guess which ·one's been ,and ·tb_e medic;•! profession to con­ his posterity." banned?" trol ·~,,problem .pt "brown lung ... For the first time in 16 years, Winner of the spot news ph~ It is ' •'~e attrj)>ptecl to inv isible there. was no award for music in tography award w~ Larry C. Price .' ~ ~~ .tireithed by 150.000 the ctirrent selections. · of the Fort, Worth (Texas) Star· .41' n,,. •. ,,,,o, , r~~ Ji'O~l:ers , in tbe Carolinas. Telegram, for photographs from 1 '. Thekongview Daily Ne~s. the JOH'l KE NNEDY TOOLE 1 Liberia, including exclusive pie· ~, •• .," "Of°tbe ftist ·time in 46 years. daily-· newspaper closest to the tures of a firing squad executing 13 Noveli!:; honored after dea t h I , '. llO award was gi\reri fo r editorial volcano, was cited for the hundreds people. 1 ~ ·· of stories and photographs the staff ' . ' , ''· ··.J.-:: produced in the months after the 1'he feature photography prize fw; t11r v p Iii' .' Among the Pulitzer Prize ru n­ catacb'smic eruption of May 18, was awarded to Taro M. Yamasaki " I'"' "r 1hi· Great: His Life and net'Hip were Allan Temko, archi· 1980.1 of the Detroit Free Press for tectUrJI critic for The San Francis­ V. nrld ." ~·,11lnr ing his mon umental photographs taken inside the State r olc i:i : •' lllf'rgence of modern to Chronicle, In the c;rit irism cate­ "lt's spmething every journalist Prison of Southern Michigan at ~ ory.; "Pavid · M. Ken nedy of dreams about," Managing Editor Ru s, i.i , ,,. 11' the biography award Jackson recording the living condi· for its ;1 11d11or. Ro bert K. Massie. Stanford University, in the history Bob Gaston said after being noti· lions of-inmates. f e&tegory, for "Over Here: The First fied of the award. "But very few on .1.t11H . >;; «1 1uyler's "The Morn World War and American Society," small papers have a chance to have Dave Anderson, a sports col­ in 1! ,,f lhl' l'cwm" was the winner ir1 ' and Maxine Hong Kingston, in the that dream come true." The news­ umnist for the New York Times, po..ir,·. ,on-fictioii. categ0ry for "China paper bu a circulation of 'J:l ,500. was honored with the prize for Men.~ Kingston wu born in Stock­ distinguished commentary, based Th• ' a 1·.;i rd for a distinguisht cl The PUiitzers were endowed by ton Ind was .,a -student at UC on . his coverage and comment on booh fJf ndn -fie tion went to Carl E. / "J)erbiey ,ln: the ·eo.. She married the late Joseph Pulitzer, publisher most of the great names in sports. Sch11rsk<'. professor . emeritus at of the old New York World. T)ley Prinr;l't.on who formerly taught ~ i.~Y ~tor. : Earl ' J(.ingston and The book reviews of Jonathan ,no•tfu'Ves i,n Honolulu. are awarded annually by Columbia hi~tor ' at l C llerkeley, for his ''Fin­ ..'IN ....,. University upon the recommenda· Yardley in the Washington Star de Sir<"IP \'ii> n1ia, Politics and Cul­ 1t1• the field 'of letters and tion of the Pulitzer Prize board. All won him the Pulitzer for criticism. ture ... &ao:ia. the off·.Brqadway "Crimes prizes are $1000, except for . the\ ~f the Heart,'' ·the fi,rst fu ll-length public service award. The feature "writing prize was 'p&ay by author~actress1leth Henli>y , awarded to Janet Cooke of ·the the drama prize; The play. The investigative reporting Washingtori Post for he~ story of an cbedWeCt: to make its debut on THELMA TOOLE, MOTHER OF WINNING NOVELIST prize was won by Clark Hallas and 8-year-old heroin addict. , ...d•ay ·next fall, ~deals with thi> 'I tried eight publishers and died each time they returned it' Robert B. Lowe of the Arizona mtetv.Joven lives of three eccentric Daily Star in Tucson, for their In the field of letters and <listen:trt .a small Mississippi town. investigation of the athletic depart­ drama, volume two of Lawrence A. ' . Kennedy Toole, who committed said his mother, ThPlma D. Toole. ment of the University of Arizona. Cremin's survey of the· history of 'nli,J>rize for fiction went to "A suicide In 1969 at the age of 32. "He killed himself when be American education, entitled ~of Dqnce$." a comic couldn't get it (the book) pub- Shirley Christian of the Miami "American Education: the National tl!OVeLmtiM ~lilfl& bY John U c:h o A 0 ' ~ .w· .. U o .. a lA u1nn th" ~"'": '""' t , .... -.

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