The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1950.
Public Service:
The Chicago Daily News and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, for the work of George Thiem and Roy J. Harris, respectively, in exposing the presence of 37 Illinois newspapermen on an Illinois State payroll.
Local Reporting:
Meyer Berger of The New York Times, for his 4,000 word story on the mass killings by Howard Unruh in Camden, New Jersey.
National Reporting:
Edwin O. Guthman of The Seattle Times, for his series on the clearing of Communist charges of Professor Melvin Rader, who had been accused of attending a secret Communist school.
International Reporting:
Edmund Stevens of the Christian Science Monitor, for his series of 43 articles written over a three-year residence in Moscow entitled, This Is Russia Uncensored.
Editorial Writing:
Carl M. Saunders of the Jackson Citizen Patriot, for distinguished editorial writing during the year.
Editorial Cartooning:
James T. Berryman of the Evening Star, Washington D.C. for All Set for a Super-Secret Session in Washington.
Photography:
Bill Crouch of The Oakland Tribune, for his picture, Near Collision at Air Show.
Letters, Drama and Music Awards
Fiction:
The Way West by A. B. Guthrie, Jr. (Sloane).
Drama:
South Pacific by Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, and Joshua Logan (Random).
History:
Art and Life in America by Oliver Waterman Larkin (Rinehart).
Biography or Autobiography:
John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy by Samuel Flagg Bemis (Knopf).
Poetry:
Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks (Harper).
Music;
Music in The Consul by Gian-Carlo Menotti (G. Schirmer), produced at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York.
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