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...Gibson's The Triumphant Empire; verse: Alan Dugan; music: Robert Ward's opera, The Crucible; public service by a newspaper: Panama City (Fla.) News-Herald; editorial writing: Thomas Storke of the Santa Barbara (Calif.) News-Press; local reporting under deadline: Robert Mullins of the Salt Lake City Deseret News-Telegram; local reporting not under deadline: George Bliss of the Chicago Tribune; national reporting: Nathan Caldwell and Gene Graham of the Nashville Tennessean; international reporting: Walter Lippmann; cartoon: Edmund S. Valtman of the Hartford (Conn.) Times; news photography: Paul Vathis...
...Fourth of July, and Robert David Mullins, the Salt Lake City Deseret News correspondent in Price, Utah, a mining town 125 miles south of the state capital, was celebrating the holiday by watching his four-year-old daughter wave sparklers in the warm desert evening. Then the phone rang. Murder had been done in Monticello, a tiny village 150 miles away. Correspondent Mullins, whose beat covers four counties and 17,488 sq. mi., is thoroughly conditioned to long-distance assignments; he wasted no time getting to work...
...someone had waylaid a car of tourists from Connecticut, shot and wounded Charles Boothroyd, 55, shot and killed Mrs. Jeannette Sullivan, 41, and vanished into the desert with Mrs. Sullivan's teen-age daughter Denise (TIME, July 14). Cursing his reportorial luck-the timing meant that the evening Deseret News's competitor, the morning Tribune, would print the story first. Correspondent Mullins forgot about Monticello and headed for Dead Horse Point...
...Timing. Time worked against Mullins and the Deseret News on nearly every important development of the case. The morning Tribune was so emphatically first with the murder-abduction that when Mullins' story appeared in the afternoon, it did not even rate column eight-the preferred Page One spot for the big story of the day. Once more, simply because it was a morning paper, the Tribune scooped the Deseret News on the apprehension of the killer. Even more embarrassing, the guilty man turned out to be one Abel Aragon, one of Mullins' neighbors back home in Price...
...textile merchant, he attended Juilliard, every Saturday afternoon trudged up to the balcony of the Metropolitan Opera to listen to how the professionals did it. Although he has been composing vocal works ever since his Curtis Institute days, Kastle attempted only one adult opera before Deseret-a one-acter titled The Swing, having to do with a bride's premarital jitters. He is now at work on another opera on an American theme, laid in the 1700s. Like his other efforts, it will be resolutely melodic. "I have always felt free," says he, "to use a C major chord...