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Winner of Pulitzer 'didn't believe it'MILWAUKEE (UPI) -Margo Huston says she “didn’t believe it” when told she had won the Pulitzer prize for general local reporting for her MilwaukeeJournal series on the elderly.“There are people standing around me trying to talk to me at the same time I'm trying to talk to you,” she said from her desk at the newspaper. “I guess it will take a while to sink in.“This sounds trite. I didn’t believe it. I guess I had figured if I had won I would have been told before this.Does a person ever think that they’re that great? That's really good and I don’t think too many people have the feeling they’re that good.”Journal Editor Richard Leonard said her subject was one that “has been writ-ten about many times before. But the way she did it was a testimony to her reporting skills.”Sixth for paperLeonard said the Pulitzer was the first for the newspaper since 1967 when it won for a series on pollution that was a group project. He saidMargo Hustonthe newspaper had wonPulitzer prizes five times in the past.For her seven-part series on senior citizens who live at home she not only in terviewed the elderly but dug deep into governmentrecords.After the series Lt. Gov.Martin Schreiber, who has been involved with care for the elderly, commented on it and took the facts under consideration for future care for the elderly.
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Eau Claire Leader Telegram
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, US
Wed, Apr 20, 1977
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