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For the best volume of verse published during the year by an American author, Five hundred dollars ($500).

Collected Poems , by Marianne Moore (Macmillan )

The Jury

Alfred Kreymborg

Louis Untermeyer

Winners in Poetry

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.