For its expose of New York State's race track scandals and labor racketeering, which led to the extortion indictment, guilty plea and imprisonment of [William C. DeKoning], Sr., New York labor racketeer.
LOCAL REPORTING, EDITION TIME Vicksburg (Miss.) Sunday Post-Herald
For its outstanding coverage of the tornado of December 5, 1953, under extraordinary difficulties.
LOCAL REPORTING, NO EDITION TIME Alvin Scott McCoy of Kansas City (Mo.) Star
For a series of exclusive stories which led to the resignation under fire ofC. Wesley Roberts as Republican National Chairman.
NATIONAL REPORTING Richard Wilson of Des Moines Register & Tribune
For his exclusive publication of the FBI Report to the White House in the Harry Dexter White case before it was laid before the Senate by J. Edgar Hoover.
INTERNATIONAL REPORTING Jim G. Lucas of Scripps-Howard Newspapers
For his notable front-line human interest reporting of the Korean War, the cease-fire and the prisoner-of-war exchanges, climaxing 26 months of distinguished service as a war correspondent.
For a series of editorials on the "New Look" in National Defense which won wide attention for their analysis of changes in American military policy.
EDITORIAL CARTOONING Herbert L. Block (Herblock) of Washington Post & Times-Herald
A cartoon depicting the robed figure of Death saying to Stalin after he died, "You Were Always A Great Friend of Mine, Joseph."
PHOTOGRAPHY Mrs. Walter M. Schau, an amateur from San Anselmo, California
For snapping a thrilling rescue at Redding, Calif., the picture being published in The Akron (Ohio) Beacon Journal and other newspapers and nationally distributed by the AP.
Charles Wesley Roberts (born December 14, 1902 - 1976) was a Kansas businessman who was Chairman of the Republican National Committee for four months in 1953 under Dwight D. Eisenhower. ... Richard Wilson OBE (born July 9, 1936) is a Scottish actor and theatre director, best known for playing Victor Meldrew in the popular BBC situation comedy One Foot in the Grave. ... Don Murray has been the name of more than one person of note: Don Murray (clarinetist) (1904-1929) jazz musician Don Murray (drummer) of the group The Turtles Don Murray (actor) Don Murray (writer) Pulitzer Prize winning writer for the Boston Herald This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid...
HISTORY A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton (Doubleday)
BIOGRAPHY OR AUTOBIOGRAPHY The Spirit of St. Louis by Charles A. Lindbergh (Scribner)
POETRY The Waking by Theodore Roethke (Doubleday)
MUSIC Concerto For Two Pianos and Orchestra by Quincy Porter
First performed by the Louisville Symphony Orchestra, March 17, 1954. This was one of the works commissioned under a grant of the Rockefeller Foundation for new American compositions for orchestra, or soloists and orchestra.
PulitzerPrize for Music — for a distinguished musical contribution by an American that had its first performance or recording in the United States during the year.
PulitzerPrize for Photography, was divided in 1968 into PulitzerPrize for Feature Photography and a spot news category, which became the PulitzerPrize for Breaking News Photography.
PulitzerPrize for the Novel, became the PulitzerPrize for Fiction.
Newsday, Garden City, N.Y. for its expose of New York State's race track scandals and labor racketeering, which led to the extortion indictment, guilty plea and imprisonment of William C. DeKoning, Sr.
First performed by the Louisville Symphony Orchestra, March 17, 1954.
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