For the best editorial article written during the year, the test of excellence being clearness of style, moral purpose, sound reasoning and power to influence public opinion in the right direction, due account being taken of the whole volume of the writer’s editorial work during the year, $500.
Geoffrey Parsons of the New York Herald Tribune
For his distinguished editorial writing during the year.
The Jury
The Jury
John Chamberlain
Roscoe Ellard
Winners in Editorial Writing
Reuben Maury of the (New York) Daily News
For his distinguished editorial writing during the year.
Bart Howard of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
For his distinguished editorial writing during the year.
Ronald G. Callvert of The (Portland) Oregonian
For his distinguished editorial writing during the year as exemplified by the editorial entitled "My Country 'Tis of Thee."
William Wesley Waymack of The Des Moines Register & Tribune
For his distinguished editorial writing during the year.
1942 Prize Winners
Carlos P. Romulo of the Philippines Herald
For his observations and forecasts of Far Eastern developments during a tour of the trouble centers from Hong Kong to Batavia.
Herbert Lawrence Block of the Newspaper Enterprise Association Service
For "British Plane."