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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...
...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...
...formative years-they considered it a Mammon-like rival of the pulpit-it did not succeed in establishing itself until the Civil War generated a ravenous public appetite for news and gave it permanent root. But not until Joseph Pulitzer, already the successful publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, arrived in New York in 1883 did the Sunday paper begin sprouting into the giant it is today. With sensational features, comic strips, four-color illustrations and special-interest supplements, Pulitzer's Sunday World face-lifted Sunday journalism. In this, it had considerable help from William Randolph Hearst...
...admiration of "the brilliance of Khrushchev's performance in the use of nuclear diplomacy." But Lerner was fearful just the same: "The still unanswered question is whether there is not a demon driving Khrushchev and world communism which will not stop because it cannot." The St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Marquis Childs wondered if the "world will survive," pinned his personal hopes on the U.S.'s new disarmament agency-a small-bore institution ($10,000,000 to work with) as yet unborn. Chronically gloomy Joe Alsop warned his readers to face the unpalatable truth: "For the first...