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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, May 7, 1963
Pulitzer Prize Awards Given
NEW YORK - (UPI) Two goethumous prizes, a furor over an unbestowed drama prize, and a public service award to the Chicago Daily News highlighted the announcement yesterday of the 1963 Pulitzer Prizes in journalism and the arts.
The Daily News received a gold medal and a citation for a series "calling attention to the issue of providing birth-control services in the public health programs of its area."
William Faulkner, chronicler of the imaginary Yoknapatawpha County in Mississippi, who died July 6, 1962, was cited in fiction for his humorous, earthy reminiscence, "The Reivers."
ALSO HONORED posthumously was Dr. William Carlos Williams, who died last March 4. He was cited for his book of poems, "Pictures from Breugel."
John Mason Brown and John Gassner, the two members of the drama jury, resigned yesterday with statements that the members of the Pulitzer Advisory Board had rejected their choice for the award: Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
Three newsmen from the New York World Telegram and Sun—Sylvan Fox, Anthony Shannon and William Longgood—received prizes for their coverage deadline pressure of an American Airlines plane crash at New York's International Airport, March 1, 1962.
In editorial writing, Ira H. Harkey, editor of the Pascagoula (Miss.) Chronicle, was honored for his work during the integration crisis created when James Meredith became the first Negro admitted as a student to the University of Mississippi.
OTHER PRIZES in journalism;
National reporting - Anthony Lewis of the New York Times for his coverage in 1962 of the U.S. Supreme Court.
—Local reporting, not under deadline pressure —Oscar O'Neil Griffin Jr., for a series of articles in the weekly Pecos, (Tex.) Independent and Enterprise that exposed the financial machinations of Billie Sol Estes.
—International reporting: Hal Hendrix of the Miami (Fla.) News for his dispatches on the Russian arms and troops buildup in Cuba.
—Editorial cartooning: Frank Miller of the Des Moines Register. His award-winning drawing depicted a world shattered by an apparent atomic holocaust. Across a vast chasm, one tattered figure called to another, "I said we sure settled that dispute, didn't we?"
Photography: Hector Rondon of La Republic, a Caracas, Venezuela newspaper, for a picture taken during a Venezuelan revolt last June. It showed a priest aiding a wounded soldier and was distributed by the Associated Press.
THE OTHER prizes in the arts were as follows:
Biography: Leon Edel, for his work on Henry James, the American novelist.
-General non-fiction: Barbara W. Tuchman, for "The Guns of August," an account of the preliminaries to and early events of World War I.
—Music: Samuel Barber's Piano
Concerto No. 1.
History: "Washington, Village and Capital, 1800-1878," by Constance MacLaughlin Green.
Phi Beta Kappa Initiates 51 Tonight
Forty-four seniors and seven juniors will be initiated into Phi Beta Kappa tonight in a ceremony in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union.
Following the initiation, which will begin at 5.30 p.m, there will be a dinner in the Kansas Room of the Kansas Union.
Oswald Backus, professor of history,
will speak at the dinner.
Time Celebrates Birthday
NEW YORK  (UPI)  - A huge gathering of 1,500 celebrities from all walks of life converged on the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel last night to help celebrate the 40th birthday of Time Magazine.
Surprised Winner 'Steps on the Gas'
MT. KISCO, N.Y. — (UPI) — Composer Samuel Barber said last night he "stepped on the gas" in his excitement over winning his second Pulitzer Prize for music.
Barber, selected this time for his "Piano Concerto No. 1," said he was driving home after attending a concert at Columbia University when he heard the news over his car radio.
"There were no cops around so I stepped on the gas I was so excited," he said.
"Nobody mentioned the award at the concert." He said he had been involved with auditions in Manhattan most of the day. He is planning a performance in Washington next November of his "Vanessa," which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1958.
The composer expressed gratitude to pianist John Browning who gave the first performance of the concerto and to the Boston Symphony which commissioned him to do the work.
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BONN, Germany — (UPI) — Chancellor-designate Ludwig Erhard won a compromise settlement today in West Germany's worst labor crisis since the war.
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A compromise pay increase was worked out in 12 hours of hard bargaining by Economics Minister Erhard and representatives of management and workers in the metal industry. It still must be approved by the full union and employers organizations, but this was considered virtually certain.
Erhard Compromise Settles West German Labor Crisis
THE STRIKE centered in the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg,where 100,000 members of the powerful metalworkers union walked off their jobs eight days ago. Employer's lockouts idled another 400,000 metal workers.
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Erhard urged an agreement in the
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interests of the national economy. He said that if the strike spread to other industries, it could ruin Germany's export position.
The compromise gave the workers a five per cent wage boost immediately and two per cent next April 1. At that time, they also will get a reduction in the work week from 42 to 40 hours.
ORIGINALLY the union had demanded an eight per cent pay increase and had been offered $3\frac{1}{2}$. The employers also had said they would not grant a shorter work week plus higher wages.
The metalworkers union executive and its wage commission planned to meet in Duesseldorf to approve the agreement.
Union boss Otto Brenner said all union committees will decide on the proposal by tomorrow.
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