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Editor Carroll Binder (rhymes with grinder) was no disgruntled aspirant, but one of the Pulitzer Prize's preliminary pickers. He was a member of a nominating jury to weed out contenders for the $500 prize for international telegraphic reporting. Disregarding the jury's 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...
...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...
Dudley: lf, Binder; rf, Blagotti; c, Coon; rg, Flynn; lg, Roger. Lowell: lf, Donahoe; rf, Haskell; c, Perkins; rg, Coulson; lg, Burke. LEAGUE STANDINGS Won Lost Dunster 5 0 Leverett 4 0 Winthrop 3 1 Dudley 3 2 Lowell 2 3 Kirkland 1 3 Eliot 0 4 Adams...
...Mexico's wartime president. As the car with its police escort left for the airport, another car drew abreast, poured in a fusillade of 22 Tommy-gun slugs. Vélez and his wife were wounded; her sister-in-law was killed. Jailed for questioning, Luis Avila Binder, Maximino's son by another wife, charged that Señora Vélez had grabbed most of Maximino's $25 million fortune. Said Cinemactor Vélez, recovering from his second shooting in 60 days (the first in the back as he was leaving his office in downtown...
Dudley; le, McGrath, Marshall; lt, Earl, Scarponi; lg, Busalacchi; c, Yaffe, Lenihan; rg, Nazarian, Fraser; rt, Binder; re, de Vergie, MacDonald; backs, Whittemore, Regan, Shepardson, Nahigian...