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1952 Pulitzer Prizes

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Journalism

Category
Winners
Finalists
Public Service

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

For its investigation and disclosures of wide spread corruption in the Internal Revenue Bureau and other departments of the government.
Finalists:
Local Reporting

George De Carvalho of San Francisco Chronicle

For his stories of a "ransom racket" extorting money from Chinese in the United States for relations held in Red China.
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National Reporting

Anthony Leviero of The New York Times

For his exclusive article of April 21, 1951, disclosing the record of conversations between President Truman and General of the Army Douglas MacArthur at Wake Island in their conference of October, 1950.
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International Reporting

John M. Hightower of Associated Press

For the sustained quality of his coverage of news of international affairs during the year.
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Editorial Writing

Louis LaCoss of St. Louis Globe Democrat

For his editorial entitled, "The Low Estate of Public Morals."
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Editorial Cartooning

Fred L. Packer of New York Mirror

For "Your Editors Ought to Have More Sense Than to Print What I Say!"
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Photography

John Robinson and Don Ultang of Des Moines Register and Tribune

For their sequence of 6 pictures of the Drake-Oklahoma A & M football game of October 20, 1951, in which player Johnny Bright's jaw was broken.
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Special Citations

Special Citations and Awards

The Kansas City Star

For the news coverage of the great regional flood of 1951 in Kansas and Northwestern Missouri - a distinguished example of editing and reporting that also gave the advance information that achieved the maximum of public protection.

Max Kase of New York Journal-American

For his exclusive exposures of bribery and other forms of corruption in the popular American sport of basketball, which exposures tended to restore confidence in the game's integrity.

Books, Drama & Music

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