Pulitzer Prizes

Designated last week were this year's winners of Pulitzer Prizes for literary merit:

Playwrighting, Eugene O'Neill, now thrice a Pulitzer Prize winner, for his Strange Interlude (TIME, Feb. 13).

Poetry, Edwin Arlington Robinson, also thrice a winner, for his Tristram (TIME, May 23, 1927).

Cartooning, Nelson Harding of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, twice a winner, for his sketch of Colonel Lindbergh's plane casting a cruciform shadow over Mexico, with the title, "May his shadow never grow less."

Novel, Thornton Niven Wilder, for his Bridge of San Luis Rey (TIME, Dec. 5).

History, Vernon Louis Parrington, for his Main Currents in American Thought.

Biography, Charles Edward Russell, for his The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas.

Musical Composition, Lamar Springfield.

Painting, Gordon Samstag.

Newspaper Editorial, Grover Cleveland Hall, of the Montgomery Advertiser, for his "editorials against gangism, flogging, and racial and religious intolerance."

To the Indianapolis Times, a gold medal "for its work in exposing the political corruption in Indiana, prosecuting the guilty, and bringing about a more wholesome state of affairs in civil government."

No one offered a good history of the services rendered to the U. S. by the U. S. press. Nor, apparently, did any U. S. reporter think any of his stories accurate, terse or publically beneficial enough to warrant entering the competition for that particular prize.