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Last week the London Sunday Dispatch asked the world's question in a poem about the Statue of Liberty...
Last week, ten months to the day from the first atomic explosion, Harry Truman announced that U.N.'s Atomic Energy Commission (set up in January to "proceed with the utmost dispatch") would meet on June 14. That will not end the delay: Washington means to wait...
...Other winners: The Scranton Times, public service; Reporters William L. Laurence and Arnaldo Cortesi (New York Times), Homer Bigart (New York Herald Tribune), Edward A. Harris (St. Louis Post-Dispatch); Cartoonist Bruce Russell (Los Angeles Times). History: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.'s Age of Jackson. Biography: Linnie M. Wolfe's Son of the Wilderness. Play: Lindsay & Grouse's State of the Union. Music: Leo Sowerby's Canticle of the Sun. Novel and poem: no award...
...Bevin disposed of two other painful matters with masterly dispatch. Since two teeth hurt him, he simply had them...
National reporting--Edward A. Harris of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, "for his articles on the tidewater oil situation, which contributed to the nationwide opposition to the appointment and confirmation of Edwin W. Pauley as Under-secretary of the Navy...