The E-Sylum:  Volume 7, Number 15, April 11, 2004, Article 5

PULITZER SECRETS REVEALED

  Dick Johnson writes: "An article in "Editor & Publisher" April
  8, 2004, stated that journalism's top prize cat is out of the bag.
  Some Pulitzer winners' names were leaked. They were not to
  be announced until a press conference Monday the 12th at
  3 pm. But some winners - and some losers - heard the news
  the day after last Thursday's top secret voting of the Pulitzer
  committee.

  The prize, of course, is the Pulitzer Medal.  It is appropriately
  inscribed with the recipient's name on the obverse and the year
  on the reverse. Medallic Art Company has struck this medal
  since its 1917 inception. One of the company's top secrets
  were any lists of recipients - of all medal awards - from the
  time the list arrives in house until fully inscribed and delivered
  to the client organization. For all my years at Medallic Art Co,
  we never had a leak

  The Pulitzer Medal features a portrait head of Benjamin
  Franklin on the obverse, and Franklin at his hand press on
  the reverse. It was designed by Daniel Chester French
  (1850-1931) who modeled the obverse Franklin head in his
  typical classical style. The reverse was modeled by his
  assistant, Henry Augustus Lukeman (1871-1935). Four of
  these medals have come on the secondary market within the
  last decade - all auctioned by Joe Levine's Presidential Coin
  and Antique Co.  The medal is illustrated in Alan Stahl's "The
  Medal in America" (COAC, 1988) in an article by Michael
  Richman on French's medallic work.

  Incidentally, one of the winners this year is the "New York
  Times" (no surprise!).  The Old Gray Lady has won more
  Pulitzers than any other newspaper. Expect the back page of
  the front section of the next Tuesday's edition to list every
  Pulitzer it ever won in a full page self-promotion
  advertisement.

  Editor & Publisher article by Joe Strupp: Aticle

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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