AWARD DATE: 1967
AWARD NAME: The Asia Magazine Award
AWARD RECIPIENT: Horace Sutton
AWARD HONORED WORK: Indonesia’s Night of Terror
Horace Sutton, Saturday Review, for “Indonesia’s Night of Terror.”
He is one of the most prolific of writers and has specialized on travel–approximately 100,000 miles a year–on all continents. He has seven books in print, and another and work. But Horace Sutton has been
honored in category 14 for a different type of journalism – what the judges proclaimed as “a superb job of analytical reporting,” his Saturday Review article on “Indonesia’s Night of Terror.” Sponsored by The Asia Magazine, the competition is intended to stimulate more and finer reporting on and about that area. A check for $500 accompanies the award.
The New York Sun and New York Post were Horace Sutton’s initial introduction to the news world, after he emerged from University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University, in 1938. His facility with words and his penchant for far places began to blend into one of the pleasanter forms of careers about 1947, when he originated the travel section of the Saturday Review. By 1961 he was associate editor of the magazine.
Eventually through a weekly travel column, “Of All Places,” distributed through the Hall Syndicate, he was
reaching more than 10 million readers with his alluring accounts of the wonders to be glimpsed in areas with exotic names, the colorful characters to be encountered. His report on Indonesia is adequate demonstration his observations have been considerably more than superficial, as he roams. As a recent date he
has become less mobile, being once more established in New York in a triple post as Associate Editor of Saturday Review; Associate Editor of McCall’s, a syndicated newspaper columnist. It is unlikely, however that Sutton’s travel days are at an end.
Citation for Excellence: A. Doak Barnett for his book Cadres, Bureaucracy, and Political Power in Communist China (Columbia University Press)
Denis Warner, The Reporter, for his present and past coverage of Asia.