The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1950.
Journalism awards
Public Service: The Chicago Daily News and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, for the work of George Thiem and Roy J. Harris, respectively, in exposing the presence of 37 Illinois newspapermen on an Illinois State payroll. (Part 2 of article) Local Reporting: Meyer Berger of The New York Times, for his 4,000-word story on the mass killings by Howard Unruh in Camden, New Jersey. National Reporting: Edwin O. Guthman of The Seattle Times, for his series on the clearing of Communist charges of Professor Melvin Rader, who had been accused of attending a secret Communist school. (Part 2 of article) International Reporting: Edmund Stevens of The Christian Science Monitor, for his series of 43 articles written over a three-year residence in Moscow entitled, "This Is Russia Uncensored". Editorial Writing: Carl M. Saunders of the Jackson Citizen Patriot, for distinguished editorial writing during the year. Editorial Cartooning: James T. Berryman of the Washington Evening Star, for "All Set for a Super-Secret Session in Washington". Photography: Bill Crouch of The Oakland Tribune, for his picture, "Near Collision at Air Show".
Letters, Drama and Music Awards
Fiction: The Way West by A. B. Guthrie Jr. (Sloane). Drama: South Pacific by Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, and Joshua Logan (Random). History: Art and Life in America by Oliver W. Larkin (Rinehart). Biography or Autobiography: John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy by Samuel Flagg Bemis (Knopf). Poetry: Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks (Harper). Music; Music in The Consul by Gian Carlo Menotti (G. Schirmer), produced at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York.
References
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