Kuralt Of News Wins Pyle Award
January 15, 1957

Charles Kuralt, 23-year-old Charlotte News reporter, has been named a 1956 winner of the Scripps-Howard Ernie Pyle Memorial Award.

Mr. Kuralt and Gordon S. (Bish) Thompson of the Evansville, (Ind.) Press each received cash awards of $1,000 and bronze medallion plaques which annually go to the two newspapermen whose writing and reporting is judged as "most nearly exemplifying the style and craftstmanship" of the great World War II reporter and human interest columnist.

Mr. Kuralt, who joined the News staff in May, 1955, scored with a collection of feature stories that appeared in The News in a column called "People." They included such off beat subjects as a one-armed banjoist philosopher, a Rescue Mission poet, a little girl's sunny afternoon frolic in an ancient cemetery, and a mountain lad's impressions of his first visit to the city.

"Kuralt's writing," the judges commented, "is sensitive, warm with affection for obscure people, and with excellent touches of humor where that is needed." . . .

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