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Amarillo (TX) Globe-Times

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For exposing a breakdown in local law enforcement with resultant punitive action that swept lax officials from their posts and brought about the election of a reform slate. The newspaper thus exerted its civic leadership in the finest tradition of journalism.
Tags: 1961
Categories: Public Service
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Amarillo (TX) Globe-Times

Yasushi Nagao

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For his photograph, "Tokyo Stabbing," distributed by United Press International and widely printed in American newspapers.
Tags: 1961
Location
Tokyo
Categories: Photography
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Mainichi

Edward R. Cony

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For his analysis of a timber transaction which drew the attention of the public to the problems of business ethics.
Tags: 1961
Categories: National Reporting
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The Wall Street Journal

Walter Piston

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First performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra on February 10, 1961, and commissioned by the Philadelphia Orchestra Association.
Tags: 1961
Categories: Music
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Symphony No. 7

Edgar May

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For his series of articles on New York State's public welfare services entitled, "Our Costly Dilemma," based in part on his three-month employment as a State case worker. The series brought about reforms that attracted nation-wide attention.
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Buffalo (NY) Evening News

Sanche De Gramont

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For his moving account of the death of Leonard Warren on the Metropolitan Opera stage.
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New York Herald Tribune

Lynn Heinzerling

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For his reporting under extraordinarily difficult conditions of the early stages of the Congo crisis and his keen analysis of events in other parts of Africa.
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Associated Press

Herbert Feis

Tags: 1961
Categories: History
Publisher
Princeton Univ. Press
Publication
Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference