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For a distinguished American biography or autobiography teaching patriotic and unselfish services to the people, illustrated by an eminent example, Five hundred dollars ($500).

Charles Evans Hughes , by Merlo J. Pusey (Macmillan )

The Jury

Julian P. Boyd

Bernard Mayo

Winners in Biography

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.