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'The Newsman's Night Out'
HOT E L
Honorary Chairman
HON. WILLIAM O'DWYER
Chairman
JAY NELSON TUCK
SPONSORS
(Partial List)
Post HOfTUI News
Acme Newspicturu
BROMBERG, World-7'elegTam
COMMODORE • FRIDAY.
Approved by Theatre Authority
MAY
2 0
April 1, 1949
Mr. Alan Paton
P.O. Anerley, South Coast
Netal, South Atrica
FRANKLIN P. ADAMS,
BERT BRANDT,
LESTER
My
dear Mr. Paton:
HgyWOOD HALE BROUN
News
MiTTor
JIMMY CANNON, Post Home New.
TIM COHANE, Loole
SAMUEL CHASE, BiUboa,'d
ALTON COOK, Warld-1'elegl'am
ALAN CORELLI, Thootre Authoritv
BlLL CORUM, Journal-Ame1-ican
JOHN CROSBY, Herald Tribune
BOSLEY CROWTHER, Times
ROBERT W. DANA, Wo,'Icl-Teleg'ram
PAUL DENIS, Post Home News
ALBERT DEUTSCH, Pas/, Home News
ELIOT ELISOFON, Li/e
KATE CAMERON,
MILTON CANIFI',
CLIFFORD EVANS
Morninll 7'elegTaph
Times
LEWIS GANNETT, Herald Tribune
SAMUEL GRAFTON, Post Home News
OTIS L. GUERNSEY, JR., Herald Tribune
WANDA HALE, News
WARREN HALL, Ame";ean Weeklv
JOHN K. HUTCHENS, Herald Tribune
NICK KENNY, Mirror
DOROTHY KILGALLEN, Jou,'nal-American
CHOLLY KNICKERBOCKER, Journal-American
LoUIS KnONENBERGER, Time
JOHN LARDNER, New&week
GEORGE FREEDLEY,
LEWIS B. FUNKE,
RICHARD E. LAUTERBACH
New Yorker
Po.t Home News
MARGARET MARSHALL, Nati"",
BBnT MCCoRD, H61'ald Tribune
JOHN McNULTY, New Yorker
JOSEPH MITCHELL, New Yorker
STERLING NORTH, Post Home News
DAN PARKER, Mirror
ROSE PELS WICK, Jou,'nal-Am61'ican
SYLVIA F. PORTER, Post Home News
JIMMY POWERS, News
THOMAS M. PRYOR, Times
VERNON RICE, Post Home News
A. J. LIEBLINO,
STAN MACGOVERN,
It is my pleasure to inform you on behalt of the Newspaper Guild of
New York that a special jury of Guild members has voted to you the
Guild's annual Page One award in literature. The jury specitically
cited your novel, "Cry, the Beloved Country" which the jury found to
be a work of rare greatness.
The Guild is the trade union of working journalists. It makes Page
One awards annually in several fields, and the awards consist ot a
stick of bronze type mounted and boxed, carrying a citation in explanation of why it was made and a record ot the dete and place of
presentation.
The awards are customarily presented at the Guild's annual Page One
ball, to be held this year on Friday, May 20, at the Botel Commodore.
There will be 2,000 New York newspaper men and women present.
I do not know that you have any plans to be in this country around
that time, and will regret it if you have not, for I know there is no
literary figure held by many of us in higher esteem. If you do plan
to be in this country, I hope you will be able to come to the ball to
receive the award in person; if you do not, is there any person whom
you would desire to receive it in your behalf1
For your information, I am enclosing a complete list of the awards, as
well as the names of the jurors who made them. My congratulations to
you--and even more to the Newspaper Guild for having chosen you for
this award. \J1th all best Wishes.
Sincerely,
MIlS. FRANKLIN D. ROOSRVELT
KARL SCHRIFTGIBSSER,
SIDNEY SHALlT,
Newsweek
News
WILLIAM L. SHmBa
H . ALLEN SMITH
LoUIS SOBOL, JouMlal-America"
ROBERT G. SPIVACK, Pos/, Home
ED SULLIVAN,
News
HOWARD TAUBMAN,
Hy TURKIN,
News
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T. H. WENNING, Newsweek
EARL WILSON, Post Home News
ARCHBR WINSTEN, Post Home New.
HABRIET V AN HORNE, World-Telegmm
DANTON WALKER,
RICHARD WATT!!, JR.,
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IThe Newsman's Night Out'
HOT E L
COMMODORE· FRIDAY
Approved by Theatre Authority
Honorary Chairman.
BON. WILLIAM O'DWYER
Chairman
JAY NELSON TUCK
MAY
2 0
March 30, 1949
'I'RE PAGE _ONE_. :.; .AW.-,; ARD.=; ;. ,; . S
SPONSORS
(Partial List)
FRANKLIN P. ADAMS, Po.t Home New.
BERT BRANDT, Acme NewBPiduru
L&STER ~RoMBERa, World-Telegra".
HIn'WOOD HALE BROUN
KATE CAMERON, New.
MILTON CANIPF, Mirror
JIMMY CANNON, Post Home N61O.
TIM COHANE, Look
SAMUEL CIUSE,
Billboard
ALTON COOK, WorId-2'eZegran.
ALAN CORELLI, Theatre Authoritll
BILL CORUM, Journal-American
JOHN CROSBY, Hemld Tribune
BOSLgy CROWTHEl!, Times
ROBERT W. DANA, World-Teleg,..".
PAUL DENIS, Post Home New.
ALBERT DEUTSCH, Po81 Home New.
ELIOT ELISOFON, Life
CLIFFORD EVANS
GEORGE FREEDLEY, Morn;"g Telegraph
LEWIS B. FUNKE, Times
Lgwls GANNETT, Herald Tribu""
SAMUEL GRAFTON, Po.t Horne New.
OTIlI L. GUERNSgy, In., Herald Trib"""
WANDA HALB, New.
WARDEN HALL, American Weekly
JOHN K. HUTCHENS,
NICK KENNY, Mirror
Herald Tribune
DOROTHY KILGALLEN,
JouT1tal-American
CHOLLY KNICKERBOCKER, JouT1tal-Americl»l
LaUIS KRONENBERGER, Time
JOHN LARDNER, New&week
RICHARD E. LAUTERBACH
A. J. LIBBLlNG, New Yorker
STAN MACGOVERN, Po.t Home
PUBLIC AFFAIRS: David E. Lilienthal, Chairman of the
Atomic Energy Commission, for d.istinguished and disinterested public service and for a magnificent restatement of
the creed of democracy,
JOURNALISM: Thomas L. StokE;ls, columnist of the ScrlppsHoward newspapers, ' for ' outstanding Washington correspondence, exemplifying care, thoughtfulness, ability, obJectivity and integrity of an extraordinarily hi8h order.
BOOKS: Sean O'Casey, for his autobiography, the most recent volume of which is "Innishfallen, Fare The~ Well," a
superb work by a writer of ~nius too little reoognized in
this country.
Alan Patpn, for his novel, "C:ry, the :Beloved Country," a work of · rare greatness.
SCIENCE; Dr, S. A. Waksman, professor of microbiology $t
Rutgers University,for his contributions to humanity
through the dfsc9very of strepto~cin and ne~cin.
New.
MARGARET MARSHALL, Nation
BERT MCCORD, Herald Tribune
JOHN McNULTY, New Yorker
JOSBPH .MrrcHELL, New Yorker
STI>RLING NORTH, Pod Home New.
DAN P ARKBR, Mirror
ROSE PELS WICK, Journal-American
SYLVIA. F. PORTER, Po.t Home N61O.
JIMMY POWERS, New.
THOMAS M. PRYOR, Timu
VERNON RICE, Po.t Horne New.
MRs. FRANKLIN D. ROOSBVI>LT
KARL SCHRIF"l'GIESSER, N ew.wee"
SmNBY SHALIT, New.
WILLIAM L. SHIREK
H. ALLBN SJllTH
Lams SOBOL, Journal-America"
ROBIIRT G. SPIVACK, Po81 Home N.w • .
ED SULLIVAN, New.
HOWARD TAUBIUN, Ti.....
Hy TURKIN, New.
DANTON WALKEB, New.
RICHARD WATTS, JR., Po.t Home New.
T. H. WENNING, Newsweek
EARL WILSON, Po.t Home New.
AsCHm WINSl'EN, Po.t Home New.
HA.BBIRT VAN HORNE, World-Telag .......
. D~: The play, "Death of a Salesman~" with full reoognition tha~many people contributed in part to what is a
stirring and wonderful whole.
MOTION PICTURES .: "The Qui ~e One," a truly outs tanding
film. which broke new' ground for documentaries in this
country and de;m.onstrated that the highest quality is possible on.an exceedingly small production budget.
MUSICAL COMEDY: "Kiss Me, Kate, n an unususlJ.y bright,
winsome and truly delightful milaical comedy and a beautiful integrated whole to which many individuals contributed.
POPULAR MUsIC: Sidney Bechet, a great Jazz
creative musiclans~ip.
;I '
man,
fortru~
SPORTS: Levi Jackson and the Yale football team. JOintl¥
for B;portsmanehip of · a high orde'r 'thiough whtch Jackson
earned, and his teammates sare him, the team/e c8.pta~cy •
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EXTRA AWARD:
In
a field without competition, to the record. album, "I 080 Bear It
!2!", for its stirring presentation of
contempor~ryhistory.
Five Citations, were voted by the jury as follows:
JOURNALISM: John Crosby, of the Ne~ York Herald Tribune, for consistent writing of
an unusually high order and for leading in raising the st~ards of radio criticism.
JOURNALISM: Homer Bisart, of the New York Herald Tribune, for distinguished foreign
correspondence maintained consistently under a variety of difficult conditions.
JOURNALISM: Sidney Kingsley, author of the play, "Detective Story," for unUsUAlly
accurate and realistiC sta. ~ portrayal of newspapermen and policemen. (The cODlllittee was fully aware of the merits of Mr. ,IUngs ley's playas a drama, but wanted
especially to cite the journalistic~lement in it) .
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BOOKS: ,Norman Mailler, for his novel, "The Naked and the Dead," judged by the ' Jury
to be the finest of the recent war books.
MOTION PICTURES: Jo1;m. Huston, for rare qriginality in the direction of the fine
film, "Treasure of Sierra Madre."
The awards and citations will be presented at the Page One Bail, Friday, May
20th, at the Hotel Commodore. The award consists of a stick of bronze type, bearing e. citation explaining why it ;was given, mounted and boxed.
No awards were made in the f,ields of radiO, the fine arts and serious music.
Nominations were solioi~d from nearly 200 by-lined writers and specialists
in various fields, as well ~s from the membership of the Guild generally. More
than 100 nominations were made.
The jury which selected
t~e
winnere was:
I
Rudi Blesh, jazz critic of the Herald Tribune;
Leonard Cohen, sports columnist;· Post Home News;
Alton Cook, movie critic, World-Telegram;
Clifford Evans, television di:rfjctor, Ci~y of New York;
William Finn, Journal-American,pres ident N.Y. Press Photographers AsSll;
Emily Genauer, art critiC, World-Telegram;
Morris Iuehewitz, research direct'o r,E?tate CIO CounCil;
William J. ~esan, Post Home News,presldent, N.Y. Reporters Assn;
Henry Moscow, Post Home News, president, Newspaper Guild of New York;
Warren MOSCOw, political writer, The New York Timee;
Oliver Pilat, labor editor, Poet Home News;
Robert G. Spivack, political writer, Poqt Home News;
Richard Watts, Jr., drama critic, Post Home News;
T. H. Wenning, dr8lJl$ critic, Newsweek;
~cher Winsten, movie critic, Post H~e News.
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