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Ritual & Injunction. The Pulitzer prizes immortalize the name, but scarcely the intent, of Joseph Pulitzer, a crusading 19th century journalist who founded the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, introduced comic strips and sensational headlines (LOVE AND CIGARETTES CRAZED HIM) in his New York World, and willed $2.000,000 to Columbia University. All but $500,000 of the bequest was earmarked for the establishment of a journalism school. Pulitzer reserved the smaller sum for the annual prize contest* that bears his name...
...paper's managing editor disagreed, said his staff had done a "lousy job." The Advisory Board has come under criticism on several counts. One is favoritism, or at least finding excellence in the same places. The New York Times has won 27 prizes, Pulitzer's own Post-Dispatch twelve-including three of the five public service awards from 1948-52-and the Associated Press 14 (against only three for United Press International, the competing U.S. wire service). Some of the awards have praised journalistic achievements of dubious value, e.g., the Detroit Free Press's 1931 coverage...
...Thine Is the World!" "There is a facetious story," he wrote in one dispatch to Tribune readers, "of two naturalists who were examining a bear; the one who had never seen such an animal before inquired whether that animal dropped its cubs alive or laid eggs; to which the other, who was better informed, replied: 'That animal is capable of anything...
...though the election is still seven months away, much of the press is already talking of Nixon as a potential loser. Columnist Marquis Childs of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch recently compared Nixon to Thomas E. Dewey as a man with a losing habit...
According to a dispatch in yesterday's New York Times, Peter de Lissovoy '64 and a South African journalist were charged with entering the Durban reserve without a permit. They had entered the reserve to take Albert John Luthuli, a Nobel peace prize winner, to his home...