St. Louis Post-Dispatch, for its investigation and disclosures of widespread corruption in the Internal Revenue Bureau and other departments of the government.
George De Carvalho of the San Francisco Chronicle, for his stories of a "ransom racket" extorting money from Chinese in the United States for relatives held in Red China.
John Robinson and Don Ultang of the 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.
Max Kase of the 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.
Journalism:
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.