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...verdict (which recommended a prize to the New York Herald Tribune's Arch Steele), the committee handed the prize to roly-poly Eddy Gilmore, inoffensive Moscow correspondent of the Associated Press (TIME, Aug. 12).* It was the A.P.'s eleventh Pulitzer Prize. And an award to Brooks Atkinson (for a fine series of dispatches on Russia) was the New York Times's 20th...
Binder's beef: it was getting monotonous. He thought Atkinson's work first-class, but added, in an editorial: "A prize to the Times would mean more if comparable work on other newspapers also received due recognition. . . . [And] to single out Gilmore for a prize in the same year in which Atkinson's work is honored is illogical, for Gilmore's correspondence has been as unrevealing as Atkinson's was revealing-as sugary and soft as Atkinson's was tart and crisp...
Also Pulitzered: New York Times Drama Critic Brooks Atkinson, for distinguished correspondence (from Russia last year); Williams College President James Phinney Baxter III, for Scientists Against Time (history). The best biography, decided the judges, was The Autobiography of William Allen White (TIME, March 18, 1946), whose author died in 1944, at 75. One significant sign of the times: the prize for distinguished work as a reporter went to the New York World-Telegram's single-minded Frederick Woltman, who keeps a close and watchful eye on left-wing activities; he won the citation for his periodic pieces...
Merchants in the Square reported an increase in the amount of business because of the parking motors, according to City Manager John B. Atkinson. The 280 meters in this vicinity averaged 60 cents per machine...
Others in the cast include: S. J. Gilman, Jr. '44 as Bertrand de Poulanger, Clyde Eagleton '48 as the Steward, Robert P. Atkinson '50 as Gilles de Rais, Whitley Y. Dresser '50 as Captain La Hire, David F. Wheeler '47 as D'Estivet, Richard Robbins '50 as De Courcelles, Thomas H. Philips '47 as the Executioner, Edward T. Kenyon '50 as Gentleman of 1920, and Robert E. Rockman '46 as Due de Tremouille...