Pulitzer Prize winners announced
NEW YORK (UPI) — For months of investigation that disclosed the alleged massacre of Vietnamese civilians by American troops at My Lai, Seymour M. Hersh won the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting Monday.
Marquis Childs, a journalist for 47 years and a contributing editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, won an award for distinguished commentary for his reporting from Washington. It was a new category for the annual awards in journalism, letters, arts and music established by the late Joseph Pulitzer, publisher of the Post-Dispatch and the former New York World.
The public service award was given to Newsday, the Garden City, Long Island, newspaper for its investigations since 1967 of secret land deals and zoning manipulations among public officials in the New York City suburbs. It was the second public service award for the newspaper, which is being bought by the Times Mirror Co., owner of the Los Angeles Times.
Company performs 'The Grand Duke'
The Mount Oread Gilbert and Sullivan Company production of "The Grand Duke" opens tonight in the Central Junior High School Auditorium.
"The Grand Duke" was the last opera written by Gilbert and Sullivan. According to John Bush Jones, associate professor of English and director of the company, it is the least performed of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas and the KU presentation will be the first time the complete work has been performed since the opening night in 1896.
Tickets are available at the door. The show will be given nightly through Saturday at 8:30 p.m.
BOOKS
BAWDY BALLADS AND LUSTY LYRICS, by John Henry Johnson (Pocket, 75 cents)—A collection of boisterous songs. As the cover notes, these are not frequently rendered in Sunday School.
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THE GREAT ONES, edited by William Kaland (Pocket, 75 cents)
—A collection of dramatized stories of famous black Americans, stories that originally were in a radio series. The people are Harriet Tubman, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Daniel Hale Williams (surgeon), Charles Clinton Spaulding (industrialist), Benjamin Banneker (mathematician), Jan Ernst Matzeliger (inventor), Charles Drew (scientist), W. C. Handy, Booker T. Washington and Frederick Douglass.
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GREAT ESSAYS IN SCIENCE, edited by Martin Gardner (Washington Square Press, 95 cents)—A collection of 38 essays by 28 scientists and science writers. Among those presented: Francis Bacon, Darwin, John Dewey, William James, Havelock Ellis, Jean Henri Fabre, Joseph Wood Krutch, Ortega Gasset, T. H. Huxley, John Burroughs, Robert Oppenheimer, Alfred North Whitehead, John Dos Passos, Julian Huxley, Aldous Huxley, Rachel Carson, Maeterlinck, H. G. Wells, Laura Fermi, Robert Louis Stevenson, Freud, Bertrand Russell and Einstein.
The prairie rattler gives birth to an average litter of nine to 12 snakes in late summer.
Newsday's editorial cartoonist, Thomas F. Darcy, 37, won the Pulitzer in that category for a series of drawings including observations on the Vietnam War and ghetto conditions.
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Dean G. Acheson, 77, the secretary of state during the Truman administration, was given the award in history for his memoir, "Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department," dealing with his career as a diplomat from 1941 until the end of Truman's office.
These were the other awards announced by Columbia University President Andrew W. Cordier after selection by the 13-member Advisory Board on the Pulitzer Prizes and approval by the university's board of trustees:
Fiction—Jean Stafford, 54, for her "Collected Stories," fantasy works written for the New Yorker and other magazines.
Drama—Charles Gordone, 45, for "No Place to be Somebody." General Nonfiction—Eric H. Erikson, 68, a German-born psychoanalyst, for "Gandhi's Truth," a study of the Indian leader's theories of nonviolence.
Music-Charles W. Wuorinen, 31, for "Time's Encmium," a composition for electronic synthesizer written especially for recordings, not live performances.
National Reporting-William J. Eaton, 39, Washington core-
spondent for the Chicago Daily News, for articles exposing conflict of interest in the background of Judge Clement F. Haynsworth Jr., President Nixon's nominee defeated for the Supreme Court.
Local Reporting, General—Thomas Fitzpatrick, 42, of the Chicago Sun-Times, for an article on deadline pressure describing the activities of the SDS weatherman faction during one of the "four days of rage" riots in Chicago last October.
Local Reporting, Special—Harold E. Martin, 46, editor and publisher of the Montgomery Advertiser-Alabama Journal, for a series of articles "exposing . . . a commercial scheme for using Alabama prisoners for drug experimentation."
Coming May 15, 16
TOM JONES
SUA Popular Film
7 & 9:30 p.m.
Woodruff Aud. — 50c
Editorial Writing—Philip L. Geyelin, 47, editorial page editor
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UNDERGROUND FILM
K.U.Film Societies, 7 May.
Nonmembers $1.
363 Bailey
Thursday, 749 p.m.
Only Walt Disney could tell this incredible Jules Verne's Adventure!
EVERY FATHER'S DAUGHTER IS A VIRGIN . . BUT THERE'S ONLY ONE POOKIE ADAMS!
GOODBYE COLUMBIA
An Unusually Good Double Feature
Starts Hillcrest Wednesday
WORLD PREMIERE ENGAGEMENT Now Second Big Week
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Live life as close to the source as you can.
for the Washington Post, for a series of 10 critiques on Nixon's Vietnam policy, the Pueblo incident and other Washington affairs.
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A film by JOHN KORTY
Criticism—In the first Pulitzer ever for distinguished criticism, Ada Louise Huxtable, 49, of the New York Times.
International reporting-Seymour M. Hershe, Dispatch News Service, Washington, D.C.
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Spot News Photography—Steve Starr, 25, staff photographer for the Associated Press at Albany, N.Y., for his picture of black students marching out of a Cornell University building holding guns and clenched sights aloft.
Commentary—Marquis W. Childs, St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
the Palm Beach Post, for a portfolio illustrating a series of articles on the plight of migrant workers in Palm Beach County, one of the nation's richest.
Eve. 7:30 & 9:25
Mat.Sat.-Sun.2:30
Adult 1.50
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Feature Photography-Dallas Kinney, 33, staff photographer for
A FILM BY ALEXANDER DOUVZHENKO
RUSSIA, 1929 - IUZION AUD.
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A FILM BY ALYANDER DOUZHENKO
RUS515, 1927 - LUNBON ALU.
WED. MAY 6 - 749-00-75
Allen Funt
Matinee Daily 2:30 Evening 7:15 - 9:15