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Louis Lautier, Atlantic Daily World Washington correspondent, and Simeon Booker, Jr., of the Cleveland Call-Post, received $250 awards for "distinguished correspondence." Nieman Fellow judges included Alan Barth, Grady E. Clay, David B. Dreiman, and E. L. Holland...
...Alan Barth of the Washington Post told the group that the rise of national columnists has been due to the failure of editorial pages to deal vigorously with social problems...
...Alan Barth, Nieman Fellow at the University and Washington Post writer, has been awarded a $100 special prize for "distinguished editorial writing," the American Newspaper Guild announced yesterday. Barth is one of eight journalists who received awards yesterday...
...nobody's surprise, U.S. Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr's attack on Swiss Theologian Karl Barth for his speech before the World Council of Churches at Amsterdam (TIME, Nov. 8) got a prompt reply. Barth, Niebuhr had said, was preaching a dangerous doctrine, which, by concentrating on the Kingdom of God, made no provision for the tragic, practical decisions Christian men and Christian nations must make on the earthly plane. Earth's answer, published in the British fortnightly Christian News-Letter under the heading: "A Preliminary Reply to Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr," struck a sharp issue...
Strike in the Dark. Niebuhr, says Barth, reminds him of a player in "a curious game called 'Brother, where art thou?' . . . who with eyes blindfolded [strikes] out wildly into the dark in a direction in which the other . . . is in all probability not to be found . . . Niebuhr's contribution is in my view a shattering example of a blow in the dark, such as I have described. The only fundamental answer I can give him is that I do not find myself where . . . I appear to him to be, and where he had delivered such lusty blows...