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Des Moines Register and Tribune, by John Robinson and Don Ultang

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.

Winning Work

The Jury

Carl E. Lindstrom

H.D. Paulson

Winners in Photography

Max Desfor

For his photographic coverage of the Korean War, an outstanding example of which is, "Flight of Refugees Across Wrecked Bridge in Korea."

1952 Prize Winners

Max Kase

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.

No author named

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.