POST WRITER PICKED FOR POLK AWARD
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March 3, 1966
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AND TIMES HERALD'
MAR 3.1966 .
Post Writer
Picked for
Polk Award
Dan Kurzman, staff writer
; on Latin 'American affairs for
The Washington Post, and Ber-
nard B. Fall, professor of in.
tot-national re-
lations at How-
ard University
were among
'n i n e George
,Polk Memorial
IAward winners
iannounced yes-
terday.
? The awards
were given by
Long Island
! University for
"outstanding journalistic
'achievements during 1965."
'Kurzman,'who has been with
'The Washington Post since
1962, was cited in the foreign
'reporting category for "re-
:, sourcefulness, insight and
courage in covering the re-
volt in the Dominican Repub-,
lie."
Fall was honored in the in-
; terpretive reports category
"for his- in-depth published
commentaries on the Vietnam-
ese War." Author of several
, books, he has contributed a
number .of articles and book
? reviews 'published in The
!Washington Post.
, Also honored is David Le-
vine, for his unique carica-
tures of public figures, which
H are appearing in the New
! York Review of Books and
':The Washington Post.
Other award winners are:
' John B. Oakes, editorial page
editor of the New York Times;
'Barry Gattehrer, formerly of
'.the New York Herald Tribune
and now on the staff of New
York? Major John V. Lindsay;
James A. Bourdier, AsSociated.
Press photographer; Susan
i Sontag, Partisan Review con-
tributor; Beryl Fox, producer ,
for the Canadian Broadcasting
Corp.,'
and Morley Safer, CBS
News porrespondent. ?
Kurzman
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