The Milwaukee Journal

For its strong and courageous campaign for Americanism in a constituency where foreign elements made such a policy hazardous from a business point of view.

John J. Leary of New York World

For the series of articles written during the national coal strike in the winter of 1919.

Harvey E. Newbranch of Evening World Herald, Omaha, NE

For an editorial entitled "Law and the Jungle."

The Boston Post

For its exposure of the operations of Charles Ponzi by a series of articles which finally led to his arrest.

Louis Seibold of New York World

For an interview with President Wilson.

New York World

For articles exposing the operations of the Ku Klux Klan, published during September and October, 1921.

Kirke L. Simpson of Associated Press

For articles on the burial of "The Unknown Soldier."

Frank M. O'Brien of New York Herald

For an article entitled, "The Unknown Soldier."

Rollin Kirby of New York World

For "On the Road to Moscow."

Memphis Commercial Appeal

For its courageous attitude in the publication of cartoons and the handling of news in reference to the operations of the Ku Klux Klan.

Alva Johnston of The New York Times

For his reports of the proceedings of the convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Science held in Cambridge Mass., in December, 1922.

William Allen White of Emporia (KS) Gazette

For an editorial entitled "To an Anxious Friend."

New York World

For its work in connection with the exposure of the Florida peonage evil.

Magner White of San Diego Sun

For his story of the eclipse of the sun.

Frank I. Cobb of New York World

A special prize of $1000 was awarded to the widow of Frank I. Cobb in recognition of the distinction of her husband's editorial writing and service.

The Boston Herald

For an editorial entitled "Who Made Coolidge?"

Jay Norwood Darling of Des Moines Register & Tribune

For "In Good Old USA."

James W. Mulroy and Alvin H. Goldstein of Chicago Daily News

For their service toward the solution of the murder of Robert Franks, Jr., in Chicago on May 21, 1924, and the bringing to justice of Nathan F. Leopold and Richard Loeb.

No author named of Charleston (SC) News and Courier

For the editorial entitled "Plight of the South."

Rollin Kirby of New York World

For "News from the Outside World."

Columbus (GA) Enquirer Sun

For the service which it rendered in its brave and energetic fight against the Ku Klux Klan; against the enactment of a law barring the teaching of evolution; against dishonest and incompetent public officials and for justice to the Negro and against lynching.

William Burke Miller of Louisville Courier-Journal

For his work in connection with the story of the trapping in Sand Cave, Kentucky, of Floyd Collins.

Edward M. Kingsbury of The New York Times

For the editorial entitled "House of a Hundred Sorrows."

D. R. Fitzpatrick of St. Louis Post-Dispatch

For "The Laws of Moses and the Laws of Today."

Canton (Ohio) Daily News

For its brave, patriotic and effective fight for the ending of a vicious state of affairs brought about by collusion between city authorities and the criminal element, a fight which had a tragic result in the assassination of the editor of the paper, Mr. Don R. Mellett.

John T. Rogers of St. Louis Post-Dispatch

For the inquiry leading to the impeachment of Judge George W. English of the U.S. Court for the Eastern District of Illinois.

F. Lauriston Bullard of Boston Herald

For the editorial entitled, "We Submit."

Nelson Harding of Brooklyn Daily Eagle

For "May His Shadow Never Grow Less."

The Indianapolis Times

For its work in exposing political corruption to Indiana, prosecuting the guilty and bringing about a more wholesome state of affairs in civil government.

Grover Cleveland Hall of Montgomery (AL) Advertiser

For his editorials against gangsterism, floggings and racial and religious intolerance.

Nelson Harding of Brooklyn Daily Eagle

For "May His Shadow Never Grow Less."

New York Evening World

For its effective campaign to correct evils in the administration of justice, including the fight to curb "ambulance chasers," support of the "fence" bill, and measures to simplify procedure, prevent perjury and eliminate politics from municipal courts; a campaign which has been instrumental in securing remedial action.

Paul Y. Anderson of St. Louis Post-Dispatch

For his highly effective work in bringing to light a situation which resulted in revealing the disposition of Liberty Bonds purchased and distributed by the Continental Trading Company in connection with naval oil leases.

Paul Scott Mowrer of Chicago Daily News

For his coverage of international affairs including the Franco-British Naval Pact and Germany's campaign for revision of the Dawes Plan.

Louis Isaac Jaffe of Norfolk Virginian-Pilot

For his editorial entitled "An Unspeakable Act of Savagery," which is typical of a series of articles written on the lynching evil and in successful advocacy of legislation to prevent it.

Rollin Kirby of New York World

For "Tammany."

Russell D. Owen of The New York Times

For his reports by radio of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition.

Leland Stowe of New York Herald Tribune

For the series of articles covering conferences on reparations and the establishment of the international bank

Charles R. Macauley of Brooklyn Daily Eagle

For "Paying for a Dead Horse."

The Atlanta Constitution

For a successful municipal graft exposure and consequent convictions.

A. B. MacDonald of Kansas City (MO) Star

For his work in connection with a murder in Amarillo, Texas.

H. R. Knickerbocker of Philadelphia Public Ledger and New York Evening Post

For a series of articles on the practical operation of the Five Year Plan in Russia.

Charles S. Ryckman of Fremont (NE) Tribune

For the editorial entitled "The Gentleman from Nebraska."

Edmund Duffy of The Baltimore Sun

For "An Old Struggle Still Going On."

Indianapolis News

For its successful campaign to eliminate waste in city management and to reduce the tax levy.

W.C. Richards, D.D. Martin, J.S. Pooler, F.D. Webb and J.N.W. Sloan of Detroit Free Press

For their account of the parade of the America Legion during the 1931 convention in Detroit.

Charles G. Ross of St. Louis Post-Dispatch

For his article entitled, "The Country's Plight -- What Can Be Done About It?" -- a discussion of economic situation of the United States.

Walter Duranty of The New York Times

For his series of dispatches on Russia especially the working out of the Five Year Plan.

John T. McCutcheon of Chicago Tribune

For "A Wise Economist Asks a Question."

New York World-Telegram

For its series of articles on veterans relief, on the real estate bond evil, the campaign urging voters in the late New York City municipal election to "write in" the name of Joseph V. McKee, and the articles exposing the lottery schemes of various fraternal organizations.

Francis A. Jamieson of Associated Press

For his prompt, full, skillful and prolonged coverage of news of the kidnapping of the infant son of Charles Lindbergh on March 1, 1932, from the first announcement of the kidnapping until after the discovery of the baby's body nearby the Lindbergh home on May 12.

Edgar Ansel Mowrer of Chicago Daily News

For his day-by-day coverage and interpretation of the series of German political crises in 1932, beginning with the presidential election and the struggle of Adolph Hitler for public office.

No author named of Kansas City (MO) Star

For its series of editorials on national and international topics.

H. M. Talburt of Washington Daily News

For "The Light of Asia."

Medford (OR) Mail Tribune

For its campaign against unscrupulous politicians in Jackson County, Oregon.

Royce Brier of San Francisco Chronicle

For his account of the lynching of the kidnappers, John M. Holmes and Thomas H. Thurmond in San Jose, Calif., on Nov. 26, 1933 after they had been jailed for abducting Brooke Hart, a merchant's son.

Frederick T. Birchall of The New York Times

For his correspondence from Europe

E. P. Chase of Atlantic (IA) News-Telegraph

For an editorial entitled, "Where is Our Money ?"

Edmund Duffy of The Baltimore Sun

For "California Points with Pride!"

The Sacramento (CA) Bee

For its campaign against political machine influence in the appointment of two Federal judges in Nevada.

William H. Taylor of New York Herald Tribune

For his series of articles on the international yacht races.

Arthur Krock of The New York Times

For his Washington dispatches

Ross A. Lewis of The Milwaukee Journal

For "Sure, I'll Work for Both Sides."

Cedar Rapids Gazette, Cedar Rapids, Iowa

For its crusade against corruption and misgovernment in the State of Iowa.

Lauren D. Lyman of The New York Times

For his exclusive story revealing that the Charles A. Lindbergh family was leaving the United States to live in England.

Wilfred C. Barber of Chicago Tribune

For his reports of the war in Ethiopia. (A posthumous award.)

Felix Morley and George B. Parker of Washington Post and Scripps-Howard Newspapers, (respectively)

For distinguished editorial writing during the year.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

For its exposure of wholesale fraudulent registration in St. Louis. By a coordinated news, editorial and cartoon campaign this newspaper succeeded in invalidating upwards of 40,000 fraudulent ballots in November and brought about the appointment of a new election board.

John J. O'Neill, William L. Laurence, Howard W. Blakeslee, Gobind Behari Lal and David Dietz of New York Herald Tribune, The New York Times, AP, Universal Service and Scripps-Howard

For their coverage of science at the tercentenary of Harvard University.

Anne O'Hare McCormick of New York Times

For her dispatches and feature articles from Europe in 1936.

John W. Owens of The Baltimore Sun

For distinguished editorial writing during the year.

C.D. Batchelor of New York Daily News

For "Come on in, I'll treat you right. I used to know your Daddy."

Bismarck (ND) Tribune

For its news reports and editorials entitled, "Self Help in the Dust Bowl."

Raymond Sprigle of Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

For his series of articles, supported by photostats of the essential documents, exposing the one-time membership of Mr. Justice Hugo L. Black in the Ku Klux Klan.

Arthur Krock of The New York Times

For his exclusive authorized interview with the President of the United States on February 27, 1937.

William Wesley Waymack of Register and Tribune, Des Moines, IA

For his distinguished editorial writing during the year.

Vaughn Shoemaker of Chicago Daily News

For "The Road Back."

Miami Daily News

For its campaign for the recall of the Miami City Commission.

Thomas Lunsford Stokes of Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance

For his series of articles on alleged intimidation of workers for the Works Progress Administration in Pennsylvania and Kentucky during an election. The articles were published in The New York World-Telegram.

Louis P. Lochner of Associated Press

For his dispatches from Berlin

Ronald G. Callvert of The Oregonian, Portland, OR

For his distinguished editorial writing during the year as exemplified by the editorial entitled "My Country 'Tis of Thee."

Charles G. Werner of Daily Oklahoman

For "Nomination for 1938."

Waterbury (CT) Republican & American of Waterbury (CT) Republican & American

For its campaign exposing municipal graft.

S. Burton Heath of New York World-Telegram

For his expose of the frauds perpetrated by Federal Judge Martin T. Manton, who resigned and was tried and imprisoned.

Otto D. Tolischus of The New York Times

For his dispatches from Berlin.

Bart Howard of St. Louis Post-Dispatch

For his distinguished editorial writing during the year.

Edmund Duffy of The Baltimore Sun

For "The Outstretched Hand."

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

For its successful campaign against the city smoke nuisance.

Westbrook Pegler of New York World-Telegram

For his articles on scandals in the ranks of organized labor, which led to the exposure and conviction of George Scalise, a labor racketeer.

Group Award

In place of an individual Pulitzer Prize for foreign correspondence, the Trustees approved the recommendation of the Advisory Board that a bronze plaque or scroll be designed and executed to recognize and symbolize the public services and the individual achievements of American news reporters in the war zones of Europe, Asia and Africa from the beginning of the present war.

Reuben Maury of New York Daily News

For his distinguished editorial writing during the year.

Jacob Burck of Chicago Times

For "If I Should Die Before I Wake."

Los Angeles Times

For its successful campaign which resulted in the clarification and confirmation for all American newspapers of the right of free press as guaranteed under the Constitution.

Stanton Delaplane of San Francisco Chronicle

For his articles on the movement of several California and Oregon counties to secede to form a forty ninth state.

Carlos P. Romulo of Philippines Herald

For his observations and forecasts of Far Eastern developments during a tour of the trouble centers from Hong Kong to Batavia.

Louis Stark of The New York Times

For his distinguished reporting of important labor stories during the year.

Laurence Edmund Allen of Associated Press

For his stories of the activities of the British Mediterranean Fleet, written as an accredited correspondent attached to the fleet.

Geoffrey Parsons of New York Herald Tribune

For his distinguished editorial writing during the year.

Herbert Lawrence Block of NEA service

For "British Plane."

Milton Brooks of The Detroit News

For his photo entitled, "Ford Strikers Riot."

Omaha (NE) World-Herald

For its initiative and originality in planning a state-wide campaign for the collection of scrap metal for the war effort. The Nebraska plan was adopted on a national scale by the daily newspapers, resulting in a united effort which succeeded in supplying our war industries with necessary scrap material.

George Weller of Chicago Daily News

For his graphic story of how a U.S. Navy Pharmacist's Mate under enemy waters in a submarine performed an operation for appendicitis saving a sailor's life.

Hanson W. Baldwin of The New York Times

For his report of his wartime tour of the Southwest Pacific.

Ira Wolfert of North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc.

For his series of three articles on the fifth battle of the Solomons.

Forrest W. Seymour of Register and Tribune, Des Moines, IA

For his editorials published during the calendar year 1942.

Jay Norwood Darling of Des Moines Register & Tribune

For "What a Place For a Waste Paper Salvage Campaign."

Frank Noel of Associated Press

For his photo entitled, "Water!" serviced by the AP.

The New York Times

For its survey of the teaching of American History.

Paul Schoenstein and Associates of New York Journal-American

For a news story published on August 12, 1943, which saved the life of a two-year-old girl in the Lutheran Hospital of New York City by obtaining penicillin.

Ernest Taylor Pyle of Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance

For distinguished war correspondence during the year 1943

Dewey L. Fleming of The Baltimore Sun

For his distinguished reporting during the year 1943.

Daniel De Luce of Associated Press

For his distinguished reporting during the year 1943.

Henry J. Haskell of Kansas City (MO) Star

For editorials written during the calendar year 1943.

Clifford K. Berryman of The Evening Star, Washington, DC

For "Where Is the Boat Going?"

Earle L. Bunker of The World-Herald, Omaha, NE

For his photo entitled, "Homecoming."

Frank Filan of Associated Press

For his photo entitled, "Tarawa Island," serviced by the AP.

Detroit Free Press

For its investigation of legislative graft and corruption at Lansing, Michigan.

Jack S. McDowell of San Francisco Call-Bulletin

For his campaign to encourage blood donations.

Harold V. (Hal) Boyle of Associated Press

For distinguished war correspondence during the year 1944.

James B. Reston of The New York Times

For his news dispatches and interpretive articles on the Dumbarton Oaks security conference.

Mark S. Watson of The Baltimore Sun

For his distinguished reporting during the year 1944 from Washington, London and the fronts in Sicily, Italy, and France.

George W. Potter of The Providence Journal-Bulletin

For his editorials published during the calendar year 1944, especially for his editorials on the subject of freedom of the press.

Sergeant Bill Mauldin of United Feature Syndicate, Inc.

For distinguished service as a cartoonist, as exemplified by the cartoon entitled, "Fresh, spirited American troops, flushed with victory, are bringing in thousands of hungry, ragged, battle-weary prisoners," in the series entitled, "Up Front With Mauldin."

Joe Rosenthal of Associated Press

For his photograph of the Marines planting the American flag on Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima.

The Scranton Times

For its fifteen-year investigation of judicial practices in the United States District Court for the middle district of Pennsylvania, resulting in removal of the District Judge and indictment of many others.

William Leonard Laurence of The New York Times

For his eye-witness account of the atom-bombing of Nagasaki and his subsequent ten articles on the development, production, and significance of the atomic bomb.

Arnaldo Cortesi of The New York Times

For distinguished correspondence during the year 1945, as exemplified by his reports from Buenos Aires, Argentina

Edward A. Harris of St. Louis Post-Dispatch

For his articles on the Tidewater Oil situation which contributed to the nation-wide opposition to the appointment and confirmation of Edwin W. Pauley as Undersecretary of the Navy.

Homer William Bigart of New York Herald Tribune

For his distinguished reporting during the year 1945 from the Pacific war theatre.

Hodding Carter of The Delta Democrat-Times, Greenville, MS

For a group of editorials published during the year 1945 on the subject of racial, religious and economic intolerance, as exemplified by the editorial "Go for Broke."

Bruce Alexander Russell of Los Angeles Times

For "Time to Bridge That Gulch."

Baltimore Sun

For its series of articles by Howard M. Norton dealing with the administration of unemployment compensation in Maryland, resulting in convictions and pleas of guilty in criminal court of 93 persons.

Frederick Woltman of New York World-Telegram

For his articles during 1946 on the infiltration of Communism in the U.S.

Brooks Atkinson of The New York Times

For distinguished correspondence during 1946, as exemplified by his series of articles on Russia.

Edward T. Folliard of The Washington Post

For his series of articles published during 1946 on the Columbians, Inc..

Eddy Gilmore of Associated Press

For his correspondence from Moscow in 1946.

William H. Grimes of The Wall Street Journal

For his distinguished editorial writing during the year.

Vaughn Shoemaker of Chicago Daily News

For his cartoon, "Still Racing His Shadow."

Arnold Hardy

For his photo of a woman falling from a burning hotel, distributed by the AP.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

For the coverage of the Centralia, Illinois, mine disaster and the follow-up which resulted in impressive reforms in mine safety laws and regulations.

George E. Goodwin of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

For his story of the Telfair County vote fraud, published in 1947.

Bert Andrews of New York Herald Tribune

For his articles on "A State Department Security Case" published in I947.

Nat S. Finney of Minneapolis Tribune

For his stories on the plan of the Truman administration to impose secrecy about the ordinary affairs of federal civilian agencies in peacetime.

Paul W. Ward of The Baltimore Sun

For his series of articles published in 1947 on "Life in the Soviet Union."

Virginius Dabney of Richmond Times-Dispatch

For distinguished editorial writing during the year.

Reuben L. Goldberg of New York Sun

For "Peace Today."

Frank Cushing of Boston Traveler

For his photo, "Boy Gunman and Hostage."

Nebraska State Journal

For the campaign establishing the "Nebraska All-Star Primary" presidential preference primary which spotlighted, through a bi-partisan committee, issues early in the presidential campaign.

Malcolm Johnson of New York Sun

For his series of 24 articles entitled "Crime on the Waterfront" in New York City.

C. P. Trussell of The New York Times

For consistent excellence covering the national scene from Washington.

Price Day of The Baltimore Sun

For his series of 12 articles entitled, "Experiment in Freedom: India and Its First Year of Independence."

Herbert Elliston of The Washington Post

For distinguished editorial writing during the year.

John H. Crider of The Boston Herald

For distinguished editorial writing during the year.

Lute Pease of Newark Evening News

For "Who Me?"

Nathaniel Fein of New York Herald-Tribune

For his photo, "Babe Ruth Bows Out."

Chicago Daily News and St. Louis Post-Dispatch

For the work of George Thiem and Roy J. Harris, respectively, in exposing the presence of 37 Illinois newspapermen on an Illinois State payroll.

Meyer Berger of The New York Times

For his 4,000 word story on the mass killings by Howard Unruh in Camden, N.J.

Edwin O. Guthman of The Seattle Times

For his series on the clearing of Communist charges of Professor Melvin Rader, who had been accused of attending a secret Communist school.

Edmund Stevens of The Christian Science Monitor

For his series of 43 articles written over a three-year residence in Moscow entitled, "This Is Russia Uncensored."

Carl M. Saunders of Jackson (MI) Citizen Patriot

For distinguished editorial writing during the year.

James T. Berryman of The Evening Star, Washington, DC

For "All Set for a Super-Secret Session in Washington."

Bill Crouch of Oakland (CA) Tribune

For his picture, "Near Collision at Air Show."

Miami Herald and Brooklyn Eagle

For their crime reporting during the year.

Edward S. Montgomery of San Francisco Examiner

For his series of articles on tax frauds which culminated in an expose within the Bureau of Internal Revenue.

Keyes Beech, Homer Bigart, Marguerite Higgins, Relman Morin, Fred Sparks and Don Whitehead

For their reporting of the Korean War.

William Harry Fitzpatrick of New Orleans States

For his series of editorials analyzing and clarifying a very important constitutional issue, which is described by the general heading of the series, "Government by Treaty."

Reg (Reginald W.) Manning of Arizona Republic

For "Hats."

Max Desfor of Associated Press

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

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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

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.

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.

John M. Hightower of Associated Press

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

Louis LaCoss of St. Louis Globe Democrat

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

Fred L. Packer of New York Mirror

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

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.

Whiteville News Reporter and Tabor City Tribune

For their successful campaign against the Ku Klux Klan, waged on their own doorstep at the risk of economic loss and personal danger, culminating in the conviction of over one hundred Klansmen and an end to terrorism in their communities.

Editorial Staff of Providence (RI) Journal and Evening Bulletin

For their spontaneous and cooperative coverage of a bank robbery and police chase leading to the capture of the bandit.

Edward J. Mowery of New York World-Telegram & Sun

For his reporting of the facts which brought vindication and freedom to Louis Hoffner.

Don Whitehead of Associated Press

For his article called "The Great Deception," dealing with the intricate arrangements by which the safety of President-elect Eisenhower was guarded enroute from Morningside Heights in New York to Korea.

Austin Wehrwein of The Milwaukee Journal

For a series of articles on Canada.

Vermont Connecticut Royster of The Wall Street Journal

For distinguished editorial writing during the year.

Edward D. Kuekes of Cleveland Plain Dealer

For "Aftermath."

William M. Gallagher of Flint (MI) Journal

For a photo of ex-Governor Adlai E. Stevenson with a hole in his shoe taken during the 1952 Presidential campaign.

Newsday, Garden City, NY

For its expose of New York State's race track scandals and labor racketeering, which led to the extortion indictment, guilty plea and imprisonment of William C. DeKoning, Sr., New York labor racketeer.

Staff of Vicksburg (MS) Sunday Post-Herald

For its outstanding coverage of the tornado of December 5, 1953, under extraordinary difficulties.

Alvin Scott McCoy of Kansas City (MO) Star

For a series of exclusive stories which led to the resignation under fire of C. Wesley Roberts as Republican National Chairman.

Richard Wilson of Des Moines Register & Tribune

For his exclusive publication of the FBI Report to the White House in the Harry Dexter White case before it was laid before the Senate by J. Edgar Hoover.

Jim G. Lucas of Scripps-Howard Newspapers

For his notable front-line human interest reporting of the Korean War, the cease-fire and the prisoner-of-war exchanges, climaxing 26 months of distinguished service as a war correspondent.

Don Murray of Boston Herald

For a series of editorials on the "New Look" in National Defense which won wide attention for their analysis of changes in American military policy.

Herbert L. Block (Herblock) of The Washington Post & Times-Herald

For a cartoon depicting the robed figure of Death saying to Stalin after he died, "You Were Always A Great Friend of Mine, Joseph."

Virginia M. Schau

For snapping a thrilling rescue at Redding, Calif., the picture being published in The Akron (OH) Beacon Journal and other newspapers and nationally distributed by the AP. (Schau was identified as "Mrs. Walter M. Schau" in the 1954 announcement.)

Columbus (GA) Ledger and Sunday Ledger-Enquirer

For its complete news coverage and fearless editorial attack on widespread corruption in neighboring Phenix City, Ala., which were effective in destroying a corrupt and racket-ridden city government. The newspaper exhibited an early awareness of the evils of lax law enforcement before the situation in Phenix City erupted into murder. It covered the whole unfolding story of the final prosecution of the wrong-doers with skill, perception, force and courage.

Mrs. Caro Brown of Alice (TX) Daily Echo

For a series of news stories dealing with the successful attack on one-man political rule in neighboring Duval County, written under unusual pressure both of edition time and difficult, even dangerous, circumstances. Mrs. Brown dug into the facts behind the dramatic daily events, as well, and obtained her stories in spite of the bitterest political opposition, showing professional skill and courage.

Roland Kenneth Towery of Cuero (TX) Record

For his series of articles exclusively exposing a scandal in the administration of the Veterans' Land Program in Texas. This 32-year-old World War II veteran, a former prisoner of the Japanese, made these irregularities a state-wide and subsequently a national issue, and stimulated state action to rectify conditions in the land program.

Anthony Lewis of Washington Daily News

For publishing a series of articles which were adjudged directly responsible for clearing Abraham Chasanow, an employee of the U.S. Navy Department, and bringing about his restoration to duty with an acknowledgment by the Navy Department that it had committed a grave injustice in dismissing him as a security risk. Mr. Lewis received the full support of his newspaper in championing an American citizen, without adequate funds or resources for his defense, against an unjust act by a government department. This is in the best tradition of American journalism.

Harrison E. Salisbury of The New York Times

For his distinguished series of articles, "Russia Re-Viewed," based on his six years as a Times correspondent in Russia. The perceptive and well-written Salisbury articles made a valuable contribution to American understanding of what is going on inside Russia. This was principally due to the writer's wide range of subject matter and depth of background plus a number of illuminating photographs which he took.

Royce Howes of Detroit Free Press

For an editorial on "The Cause of a Strike," impartially and clearly analyzing the responsibility of both labor and management for a local union's unauthorized strike in July, 1954, which rendered 45,000 Chrysler Corporation workers idle and unpaid. By pointing out how and why the parent United Automobile Workers' Union ordered the local strike called off and stating that management let dissatisfaction get out of hand, the editorial made a notable contribution to public understanding of the whole program of the respective responsibilities and relationships of labor and management in this field.

Daniel R. Fitzpatrick of St. Louis Post-Dispatch

For a cartoon published on June 8,1954 entitled, "How Would Another Mistake Help?" showing Uncle Sam, bayoneted rifle in hand, pondering whether to wade into a black marsh bearing the legend "French Mistakes in Indo-China." The award is also given for distinguished body of the work of Mr. Fitzpatrick in both 1954 and his entire career.

John L. Gaunt of Los Angeles Times

For a photo that is poignant and profoundly moving, entitled, "Tragedy by the Sea," showing a young couple standing together beside an angry sea in which only a few minutes earlier their year-old son had perished.

Watsonville (CA) Register-Pajaronian

For courageous exposure of corruption in public office, which led to the resignation of a district attorney and the conviction of one of his associates.

Lee Hills of Detroit Free Press

For his aggressive, resourceful and comprehensive front page reporting of the United Automobile Workers' negotiations with Ford and General Motors for a guaranteed annual wage.

Arthur Daley of The New York Times

For his outstanding coverage and commentary on the world of sports in his daily column, "Sports of the Times."

Charles L. Bartlett of Chattanooga Times

For his original disclosures that led to the resignation of Harold E. Talbott as Secretary of the Air Force.

William Randolph Hearst Jr., J. Kingsbury-Smith and Frank Connif of International News Service

For a series of exclusive interviews with the leaders of the Soviet Union.

Lauren K. Soth of Register and Tribune, Des Moines, IA

For the editorial inviting a farm delegation from the Soviet Union to visit Iowa, which led directly to the Russian farm visit to the U.S..

Robert York of Louisville (KY) Times

For his cartoon, "Achilles" showing a bulging figure of American prosperity tapering to a weak heel labeled "Farm Prices."

Staff of New York Daily News

For its consistently excellent news picture coverage in 1955, an outstanding example of which is its photo, "Bomber Crashes in Street."

Chicago Daily News

For determined and courageous public service in exposing a $2,500,000 fraud centering in the office of the State Auditor of Illinois, resulting in the indictment and conviction of the State Auditor and others. This led to the reorganization of State procedures to prevent a recurrence of the fraud.

Staff of Salt Lake (UT) Tribune

For its prompt and efficient coverage of the crash of two air liners over the Grand Canyon, in which 128 persons were killed. This was a team job that surmounted great difficulties in distance, time and terrain.

Wallace Turner and William Lambert of Portland Oregonian

For their expose of vice and corruption in Portland involving some municipal officials and officers of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America, Western Conference. They fulfilled their assignments despite great handicaps and the risk of reprisal from lawless elements.

James Reston of The New York Times

For his distinguished national correspondence, including both news dispatches and interpretive reporting, an outstanding example of which was his five-part analysis of the effect of President Eisenhower's illness on the functioning of the Executive Branch of the Federal Government.

Russell Jones of United Press

For his excellent and sustained coverage of the Hungarian revolt against Communist domination, during which he worked at great personal risk within Russian-held Budapest and gave front-line eyewitness reports of the ruthless Soviet repression of the Hungarian people.

Buford Boone of Tuscaloosa (AL) News

For his fearless and reasoned editorials in a community inflamed by a segregation issue, an outstanding example of his work being the editorial entitled, "What a Price for Peace," published on February 7,1956.

Tom Little of The Nashville Tennessean

For "Wonder Why My Parents Didn't Give Me Salk Shots?" Published on January 12, 1956.

Harry A. Trask of Boston Traveler

For his dramatic and outstanding photographic sequence of the sinking of the liner Andrea Doria, the pictures being taken from an airplane flying at a height of 75 feet only nine minutes before the ship plunged to the bottom. (The second picture in the sequence is cited as the key photograph.)

Arkansas Gazette, Little Rock, AR

For demonstrating the highest qualities of civic leadership, journalistic responsibility and moral courage in the face of great public tension during the school integration crisis of 1957. The newspaper's fearless and completely objective news coverage, plus its reasoned and moderate policy, did much to restore calmness and order to an overwrought community, reflecting great credit on its editors and its management.

Staff of Fargo (ND) Forum

For its swift, vivid and detailed news and picture coverage of a tornado which struck Fargo on June 20. Proceeding under considerable difficulty and overcoming many handicaps, a small but skilled staff put out a complete tornado edition within five hours after the disaster.

George Beveridge of The Evening Star, Washington, DC

For his excellent and thought-provoking series, "Metro, City of Tomorrow," describing in depth the urban problems of Washington, D.C., which stimulated widespread public consideration of these problems and encouraged further studies by both public and private agencies.

Clark Mollenhoff of Des Moines Register and Tribune

For his persistent inquiry into labor racketeering, which included investigatory reporting of wide significance.

Relman Morin of Associated Press

For his dramatic and incisive eyewitness report of mob violence on September 23, 1957, during the integration crisis at the Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Staff of The New York Times

For its distinguished coverage of foreign news, which was characterized by admirable initiative, continuity and high quality during the year.

Harry S. Ashmore of Arkansas Gazette, Little Rock, AR

For the forcefulness, dispassionate analysis and clarity of his editorials on the school integration conflict in Little Rock.

Bruce M. Shanks of Buffalo (NY) Evening News

For "The Thinker," published on August 10, 1957, depicting the dilemma of union membership when confronted by racketeering leaders in some labor unions.

William C. Beall of Washington (DC) Daily News

For his photograph "Faith and Confidence," showing a policeman patiently reasoning with two-year-old boy trying to cross a street during a parade.

Utica (NY) Observer-Dispatch and Utica Daily Press

For their successful campaign against corruption, gambling and vice in their home city and the achievement of sweeping civic reforms in the face of political pressure and threats of violence. By their stalwart leadership of the forces of good government, these newspapers upheld the best tradition of a free press.

Mary Lou Werner of The Evening Star, Washington, DC

For her comprehensive year-long coverage of the integration crisis in Virginia which demonstrated admirable qualities of accuracy, speed and the ability to interpret the news under deadline pressure in the course of a difficult and taxing assignment. (Werner was identified as "Miss Mary Lou Werner" in the original announcement.)

John Harold Brislin of Scranton (PA) Tribune and Scrantonian

For displaying courage, initiative and resourcefulness in his effective four-year campaign to halt labor violence in his home city, as a result of which ten corrupt union officials were sent to jail and a local union was embolden to clean out racketeering elements.

Howard Van Smith of The Miami (FL) News

For a series of articles that focused public notice on deplorable conditions in a Florida migrant labor camp, resulted in the provision of generous assistance for the 4,000 stranded workers in the camp, and thereby called attention to the national problem presented by 1,500,000 migratory laborers.

Joseph Martin and Philip Santora of New York Daily News

For their exclusive series of articles disclosing the brutality of the Batista government in Cuba long before its downfall and forecasting the triumph of the revolutionary party led by Fidel Castro.

Ralph McGill of The Atlanta (GA) Constitution

For his distinguished editorial writing during 1958 as exemplified in his editorial "A Church, A School...." and for his long, courageous and effective editorial leadership.

William H. (Bill) Mauldin of St. Louis Post-Dispatch

For "I won the Nobel Prize for Literature. What was your crime?" Published on October 30, 1958.

William Seaman of Minneapolis Star

For his dramatic photograph of the sudden death of a child in the street.

Los Angeles Times

For its thorough, sustained and well-conceived attack on narcotics traffic and the enterprising reporting of Gene Sherman, which led to the opening of negotiations between the United States and Mexico to halt the flow of illegal drugs into southern California and other border states.

Jack Nelson of The Atlanta (GA) Constitution

For the excellent reporting in his series of articles on mental institutions in Georgia.

Miriam Ottenberg of The Evening Star, Washington, DC

For a series of seven articles exposing a used-car racket in Washington, D.C., that victimized many unwary buyers. The series led to new regulations to protect the public and served to alert other communities to such sharp practices.

Vance Trimble of Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance

For a series of articles exposing the extent of nepotism in the Congress of the United States.

A. M. Rosenthal of The New York Times

For his perceptive and authoritative reporting from Poland. Mr. Rosenthal's subsequent expulsion from the country was attributed by Polish government spokesmen to the depth his reporting into Polish affairs, there being no accusation of false reporting.

Lenoir Chambers of Norfolk Virginian-Pilot

For his series of editorials on the school integration problem in Virginia, as exemplified by "The Year the Schools Closed," published January 1, 1959, and "The Year the Schools Opened," published December 31, 1959.

Andrew Lopez of United Press International

For his series of four photographs of a corporal, formerly of Dictator Batista's army, who was executed by a Castro firing squad, the principal picture showing the condemned man receiving last rites.

Amarillo (TX) Globe-Times

For exposing a breakdown in local law enforcement with resultant punitive action that swept lax officials from their posts and brought about the election of a reform slate. The newspaper thus exerted its civic leadership in the finest tradition of journalism.

Sanche De Gramont (Ted Morgan) of New York Herald Tribune

For his moving account of the death of Leonard Warren on the Metropolitan Opera stage.

Edgar May of Buffalo (NY) Evening News

For his series of articles on New York State's public welfare services entitled, "Our Costly Dilemma," based in part on his three-month employment as a State case worker. The series brought about reforms that attracted nation-wide attention.

Edward R. Cony of The Wall Street Journal

For his analysis of a timber transaction which drew the attention of the public to the problems of business ethics.

Lynn Heinzerling of Associated Press

For his reporting under extraordinarily difficult conditions of the early stages of the Congo crisis and his keen analysis of events in other parts of Africa.

William J. Dorvillier of San Juan (Puerto Rico) Star

For his editorials on clerical interference in the 1960 gubernatorial election in Puerto Rico.

Carey Orr of Chicago Tribune

For "The Kindly Tiger," published on October 8, 1960.

Yasushi Nagao of Mainichi, Tokyo

For his photograph, "Tokyo Stabbing," distributed by United Press International and widely printed in American newspapers.

Panama City (FL) News-Herald

For its three-year campaign against entrenched power and corruption, with resultant reforms in Panama City and Bay County.

Robert D. Mulllins of Deseret News, Salt Lake City, UT

For his resourceful coverage of a murder and kidnapping at Dead Horse Point, Utah.

George Bliss of Chicago Tribune

For his initiative in uncovering scandals in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago, with resultant remedial action.

Nathan G. Caldwell and Gene S. Graham of Nashville Tennessean

For their exclusive disclosure and six years of detailed reporting, under great difficulties, of the undercover cooperation between management interests in the coal industry and the United Mine Workers.

Walter Lippmann of New York Herald Tribune Syndicate

For his 1961 interview with Soviet Premier Khrushchev, as illustrative of Lippmann's long and distinguished contribution to American journalism.

Thomas M. Storke of Santa Barbara (CA) News-Press

For his forceful editorials calling public attention to the activities of a semi-secret organization known as the John Birch Society.

Edmund S. Valtman of The Hartford Times

For "What You Need, Man, Is a Revolution Like Mine," published on August 31, 1961.

Paul Vathis of Associated Press, Harrisburg, PA, bureau

For the photograph, "Serious Steps," published April 22, 1961.

Chicago Daily News

For calling public attention to the issue of providing birth control services in the public health programs in its area.

Sylvan Fox, Anthony Shannon and William Longgood of New York World-Telegram and Sun

For their reporting of an air crash in Jamaica Bay, killing 95 persons on March 1, 1962.

Oscar Griffin, Jr. of Pecos (TX) Independent and Enterprise

Who as editor initiated the exposure of the Billie Sol Estes scandal and thereby brought a major fraud on the United States government to national attention with resultant investigation, prosecution and conviction of Estes.

Anthony Lewis of The New York Times

For his distinguished reporting of the proceedings of the United States Supreme Court during the year, with particular emphasis on the coverage of the decision in the reapportionment case and its consequences in many of the States of the Union.

Hal Hendrix of The Miami (FL) News

For his persistent reporting which revealed, at an early stage, that the Soviet Union was installing missile launching pads in Cuba and sending in large numbers of MIG-21 aircraft.

Ira B. Harkey of Pascagoula (MS) Chronicle

For his courageous editorials devoted to the processes of law and reason during the integration crisis in Mississippi in 1962.

Frank Miller of Des Moines Register

For a cartoon which showed a world destroyed with one ragged figure calling to another: "I said we sure settled that dispute, didn't we!"

Hector Rondon of La Republica, Caracas, Venezuela

For his remarkable picture of a priest holding a wounded soldier in the 1962 Venezuelan insurrection: "Aid From The Padre." The photograph was distributed by the Associated Press.

St. Petersburg (FL) Times

For its aggressive investigation of the Florida Turnpike Authority which disclosed widespread illegal acts and resulted in a major reorganization of the State's road construction program.

Norman C. Miller of The Wall Street Journal

For his comprehensive account of a multi-million dollar vegetable oil swindle in New Jersey.

James V. Magee, Albert V. Gaudiosi and Frederick Meyer of The Philadelphia Bulletin

For their expose of numbers racket operations with police collusion in South Philadelphia, which resulted in arrests and a cleanup of the police department.

Merriman Smith of United Press International

For his outstanding coverage of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Malcolm W. Browne and David Halberstam of Associated Press and The New York Times, (respectively)

For their individual reporting of the Viet Nam war and the overthrow of the Diem regime.

Hazel Brannon Smith of Lexington (MS) Advertiser

For steadfast adherence to her editorial duty in the face of great pressure and opposition.

Paul Conrad of The Denver Post

For his editorial cartooning during the past year

Robert H. Jackson of Dallas Times-Herald

For his photograph of the murder of Lee Oswald by Jack Ruby.

Hutchinson (KS) News

For its courageous and constructive campaign, culminating in 1964, to bring about more equitable reapportionment of the Kansas Legislature, despite powerful opposition in its own community.

Melvin H. Ruder of Hungry Horse News, a weekly in Columbia Falls, MT

For his daring and resourceful coverage of a disastrous flood that threatened his community, an individual effort in the finest tradition of spot news reporting.

Gene Goltz of Houston Post

For his expose of government corruption Pasadena, Texas, which resulted in widespread reforms.

Louis M. Kohlmeier of The Wall Street Journal

For his enterprise in reporting the growth of the fortune of President Lyndon B. Johnson and his family.

J. A. Livingston of Philadelphia Bulletin

For his reports on the growth of economic independence among Russia's Eastern European satellites and his analysis of their desire for a resumption of trade with the West.

John R. Harrison of Gainesville (FL) Sun

For his successful editorial campaign for better housing in his city.

Horst Faas of Associated Press

For his combat photography of the war in South Viet Nam during 1964.

The Boston Globe

For its campaign to prevent confirmation of Francis X Morrissey as a Federal District Judge in Massachusetts.

Staff of Los Angeles Times

For its coverage of the Watts riots.

John Anthony Frasca of Tampa (FL) Tribune

For his investigation and reporting of two robberies that resulted in the freeing of an innocent man.

Haynes Johnson of Washington Evening Star

For his distinguished coverage of the civil rights conflict centered about Selma, Ala., and particularly his reporting of its aftermath.

Peter Arnett of Associated Press

For his coverage of the war in Vietnam.

Robert Lasch of St. Louis Post-Dispatch

For his distinguished editorial writing in 1965.

Don Wright of The Miami News

For "You Mean You Were Bluffing?"

Kyoichi Sawada of United Press International

For his combat photography of the war in Vietnam during 1965.

Milwaukee Journal

For its successful campaign to stiffen the law against water pollution in Wisconsin, a notable advance in the national effort for the conservation of natural resources.

Staff of Louisville Courier-Journal

For its successful campaign to control the Kentucky strip mining industry, a notable advance in the national effort for the conservation of natural resources.

Robert V. Cox of Chambersburg (Pennsylvania) Public Opinion

For his vivid deadline reporting of a mountain manhunt that ended with the killing of a deranged sniper who had terrorized the community.

Gene Miller of Miami Herald

Whose initiative and investigative reporting helped to free two persons wrongfully convicted of murder.

Stanley Penn and Monroe Karmin of The Wall Street Journal

For their investigative reporting of the connection between American crime and gambling in the Bahamas.

R. John Hughes of The Christian Science Monitor

For his thorough reporting of the attempted Communist coup in Indonesia in 1965 and the purge that followed in 1965-66.

Eugene Patterson of The Atlanta Constitution

For his editorials during the year.

Patrick B. Oliphant of The Denver Post

For "They Won't Get Us To The Conference Table...Will They?" Published February 1, 1966.

Jack R. Thornell of Associated Press, New Orleans bureau

For his picture of the shooting of James Meredith in Mississippi by a roadside rifleman.

Riverside (CA) Press-Enterprise

For its expose of corruption in the courts in connection with the handling of the property and estates of an Indian tribe in California, and its successful efforts to punish the culprits.

Staff of Detroit Free Press

For its coverage of the Detroit riots of 1967, recognizing both the brilliance of its detailed spot news staff work and its swift and accurate investigation into the underlying causes of the tragedy.

J. Anthony Lukas of The New York Times

For the social document he wrote in his investigation of the life and the murder of Linda Fitzpatrick.

Howard James of The Christian Science Monitor

For his series of articles, "Crisis in the Courts."

Nathan K. (Nick) Kotz of Des Moines Register and Minneapolis Tribune

For his reporting of unsanitary conditions in many meat packing plants, which helped insure the passage of the Federal Wholesome Meat Act of 1967.

Alfred Friendly of The Washington Post

For his coverage of the Middle East War of 1967.

John S. Knight of Knight Newspapers

For his distinguished editorial writing.

Eugene Gray Payne of The Charlotte Observer

For his editorial cartooning in 1967.

Rocco Morabito of Jacksonville Journal

For his photograph, "The Kiss of Life."

Toshio Sakai of United Press International

For his Vietnam War combat photograph, "Dreams of Better Times."

Los Angeles Times

For its expose of wrongdoing within the Los Angeles City Government Commissions, resulting in resignations or criminal convictions of certain members, as well as widespread reforms.

John Fetterman of Louisville Times and Courier-Journal

For his article, "Pfc. Gibson Comes Home," the story of an American soldier whose body was returned to his native town from Vietnam for burial.

Albert L. Delugach and Denny Walsh of St. Louis Globe-Democrat

For their campaign against fraud and abuse of power within the St. Louis Steamfitters Union, Local 562.

Robert Cahn of The Christian Science Monitor

For his inquiry into the future of our national parks and the methods that may help to preserve them.

William Tuohy of Los Angeles Times

For his Vietnam War correspondence in 1968.

Paul Greenberg of Pine Bluff (AR) Commercial

For his editorials during 1968.

John Fischetti of Chicago Daily News

For his editorial cartooning in 1968.

Edward T. Adams of Associated Press

For his photograph, "Saigon Execution."

Moneta Sleet Jr. of Ebony Magazine

For his photograph of Martin Luther King Jr.'s widow and child, taken at Dr. King's funeral.

Newsday, Garden City, NY

For its three-year investigation and exposure of secret land deals in eastern Long Island, which led to a series of criminal convictions, discharges and resignations among public and political officeholders in the area.

Thomas Fitzpatrick of Chicago Sun-Times

For his article about the violence of youthful radicals in Chicago, "A Wild Night's Ride With SDS."

Harold Eugene Martin of Montgomery Advertiser and Alabama Journal

For his expose of a commercial scheme for using Alabama prisoners for drug experimentation and obtaining blood plasma from them.

William J. Eaton of Chicago Daily News

For disclosures about the background of Judge Clement F. Haynesworth Jr., in connection with his nomination for the United States Supreme Court.

Seymour M. Hersh of Dispatch News Service, Washington, DC

For his exclusive disclosure of the Vietnam War tragedy at the hamlet of My Lai.

Ada Louise Huxtable of The New York Times

For distinguished criticism during 1969.

Marquis W. Childs of St. Louis Post-Dispatch

For distinguished commentary during 1969.

Philip L. Geyelin of The Washington Post

For his editorials during 1969.

Thomas F. Darcy of Newsday, Garden City, NY

For his editorial cartooning during 1969.

Steve Starr of Associated Press, Albany (NY) Bureau

For his news photo taken at Cornell University, "Campus Guns."

Dallas Kinney of Palm Beach Post, West Palm Beach, FL

For his portfolio of pictures of Florida migrant workers, "Migration to Misery."

Winston-Salem (NC) Journal and Sentinel

For coverage of environmental problems, as exemplified by a successful campaign to block strip mining operation that would have caused irreparable damage to the hill country of northwest North Carolina.

Staff of Akron (OH) Beacon Journal

For its coverage of the Kent State University tragedy on May 4, 1970.

William Jones of Chicago Tribune

For exposing collusion between police and some of Chicago's largest private ambulance companies to restrict service in low income areas, leading to major reforms.

Lucinda Franks and Thomas Powers of United Press International

For their documentary on the life and death of a 28-year-old revolutionary Diana Oughton: "The Making of a Terrorist."

Jimmie Lee Hoagland of The Washington Post

For his coverage of the struggle against apartheid in the Republic of South Africa.

Harold C. Schonberg of The New York Times

For his music criticism during 1970.

William A. Caldwell of The Record, Hackensack, New Jersey

For his commentary in his daily column.

Horance G. Davis Jr. of The Gainesville (FL) Sun

For his editorials in support of the peaceful desegregation of Florida's schools.

Paul Conrad of Los Angeles Times

For his editorial cartooning during 1970.

John Paul Filo of Valley Daily News and Daily Dispatch, Tarentum and New Kensington, PA

For his pictorial coverage of the Kent State University tragedy on May 4, 1970.

Jack Dykinga of Chicago Sun-Times

For his dramatic and sensitive photographs at the Lincoln and Dixon State Schools for the Retarded in Illinois.

The New York Times

For the publication of the Pentagon Papers.

Richard Cooper and John Machacek of Rochester (NY) Times-Union

For their coverage of the Attica, New York prison riot.

Timothy Leland, Gerard M. O'Neill, Stephen A. Kurkjian and Ann Desantis of The Boston Globe

For their exposure of widespread corruption in Somerville, Massachusetts.

Jack Anderson of United Features Syndicate

For his reporting of American policy decision-making during the Indo-Pakistan War of 1971.

Peter R. Kann of The Wall Street Journal

For his coverage of the Indo-Pakistan War of 1971.

Frank Peters Jr. of St. Louis Post-Dispatch

For his music criticism during 1971.

Mike Royko of Chicago Daily News

For his columns during 1971.

John Strohmeyer of Bethlehem (PA) Globe-Times

For his editorial campaign to reduce racial tensions in Bethlehem.

Jeffrey K. MacNelly of Richmond News-Leader

For his editorial cartooning during 1971.

Horst Faas and Michel Laurent of Associated Press

For their picture series, "Death in Dacca."

Dave Kennerly of United Press International

For his dramatic photographs of the Vietnam War in 1971.

The Washington Post

For its investigation of the Watergate case.

Staff of Chicago Tribune

For uncovering flagrant violations of voting procedures in the primary election of March 21, 1972.

Staff of The Sun Newspapers of Omaha, NE

For uncovering the large financial resources of Boys Town, Nebraska, leading to reforms in this charitable organization's solicitation and use of funds contributed by the public.

Robert Boyd and Clark Hoyt of Knight Newspapers

For their disclosure of Senator Thomas Eagleton's history of psychiatric therapy, resulting in his withdrawal as the Democratic Vice Presidential nominee in 1972.

Max Frankel of The New York Times

For his coverage of President Nixon's visit to China in 1972.

David S. Broder of The Washington Post

For his columns during 1972.

Ronald Powers of Chicago Sun-Times

For his critical writing about television during 1972.

Roger B. Linscott of Berkshire Eagle, Pittsfield, MA

For his editorials during 1972.

Huynh Cong Ut of Associated Press

For his photograph, "The Terror of War," depicting children in flight from a napalm bombing.

Brian Lanker of Topeka Capital-Journal

For his sequence on child birth, as exemplified by his photograph, "Moment of Life."

Newsday, Garden City, NY

For its definitive report on the illicit narcotic traffic in the United States and abroad, entitled, "The Heroin Trail."

Arthur M. Petacque and Hugh F. Hough of Chicago Sun-Times

For uncovering new evidence that led to the reopening of efforts to solve the 1966 murder of Valerie Percy.

William Sherman of New York Daily News

For his resourceful investigative reporting in the exposure of extreme abuse of the New York Medicaid program.

Jack White of Providence Journal and Evening Bulletin

For his initiative in exclusively disclosing President Nixon's Federal income tax payments in 1970 and 1971.

James R. Polk of Washington Star-News

For his disclosure of alleged irregularities in the financing of the campaign to re-elect President Nixon in 1972.

Hedrick Smith of The New York Times

For his coverage of the Soviet Union and its allies in Eastern Europe in 1973.

Edwin A. Roberts Jr. of National Observer

For his commentary on public affairs during 1973.

Emily Genauer of Newsday Syndicate

For her critical writing about art and artists.

F. Gilman Spencer of The Trentonian, Trenton, NJ

For his courageous campaign to focus public attention on scandals in New Jersey's state government.

Paul Szep of The Boston Globe

For his editorial cartooning during 1973.

Anthony K. Roberts

For his picture series, "Fatal Hollywood Drama," in which an alleged kidnapper was killed.

Slava Veder of Associated Press

For his picture of the return of an American prisoner of war from captivity in North Vietnam.

The Boston Globe

For its massive and balanced coverage of the Boston school desegregation crisis.

Staff of Xenia (OH) Daily Gazette

For its coverage, under enormous difficulties, of the tornado that wrecked the city on April 3, 1974.

Staff of Indianapolis Star

For its disclosures of local police corruption and dilatory law enforcement, resulting in a cleanup of both the Police Department and the office of the County Prosecutor.

Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele of The Philadelphia Inquirer

For their series "Auditing the Internal Revenue Service," which exposed the unequal application of Federal tax laws.

William Mullen and Ovie Carter of Chicago Tribune

For their coverage of famine in Africa and India.

Mary McGrory of The Washington Star-News

For her commentary on public affairs during 1974.

Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times

For his film criticism during 1974.

John Daniell Maurice of Charleston (WV) Daily Mail

For his editorials about the Kanawha County schoolbook controversy.

Garry Trudeau of Universal Press Syndicate

For his cartoon strip Doonesbury.

Gerald H. Gay of The Seattle Times

For his photograph of four exhausted firemen, "Lull in the Battle."

Matthew Lewis of The Washington Post

For his photographs in color and black and white.

Anchorage Daily News

For its disclosures of the impact and influence of the Teamsters Union on Alaska's economy and politics.

Gene Miller of Miami Herald

For his persistent and courageous reporting over eight and one-half years that led to the exoneration and release of two men who had twice been tried for murder and wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death in Florida.

Staff of Chicago Tribune

For uncovering widespread abuses in Federal housing programs in Chicago and exposing shocking conditions at two private Chicago hospitals.

James Risser of Des Moines Register

For disclosing large-scale corruption in the American grain exporting trade.

Sydney H. Schanberg of The New York Times

For his coverage of the Communist takeover in Cambodia, carried out at great risk when he elected to stay at his post after the fall of Pnom Penh.

Walter Wellesley (Red) Smith of The New York Times

For his commentary on sports in 1975 and for many other years.

Alan M. Kriegsman of The Washington Post

For his critical writing about the dance during 1975.

Philip P. Kerby of Los Angeles Times

For his editorials against government secrecy and judicial censorship.

Tony Auth of The Philadelphia Inquirer

For "O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain," published on July 22, 1975.

Stanley Forman of Boston Herald American

For his sequence of photographs of a fire in Boston on July 22, 1975.

Photographic Staff of Louisville Courier-Journal and Times

For a comprehensive pictorial report on busing in Louisville's schools.

Lufkin (TX) News

For an obituary of a local man who died in Marine training camp, which grew into an investigation of that death and a fundamental reform in the recruiting and training practices of the United States Marine Corps.

Margo Huston of The Milwaukee Journal

For her reports on the elderly and the process of aging.

Acel Moore and Wendell Rawls Jr. of the Philadelphia Inquirer

For their reports on conditions in the Farview (Pa.) State Hospital for the mentally ill.

Walter Mears of Associated Press

For his coverage of the 1976 Presidential campaign.

George F. Will of The Washington Post Writers Group

For distinguished commentary on a variety of topics.

William McPherson of The Washington Post

For his contribution to "Book World."

Warren L. Lerude, Foster Church and Norman F. Cardoza of Reno (Nev.) Evening Gazette and Nevada State Journal

For editorials challenging the power of a local brothel keeper.

Paul Szep of The Boston Globe

Neal Ulevich of Associated Press

For a series of photographs of disorder and brutality in the streets of Bangkok.

Stanley Forman of Boston Herald American

For his photograph of a youth using the flag as a lance in street disorders.

Robin Hood of Chattanooga News-Free Press

For his photograph of a disabled veteran and his child at an Armed Forces Day parade.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

For a series of articles showing abuses of power by the police in its home city.

Richard Whitt of Louisville Courier-Journal

For his coverage of a fire that took 164 lives at the Beverly Hills Supper Club at Southgate, Ky., and subsequent investigation of the lack of enforcement of state fire codes.

Anthony R. Dolan of The Stamford (CT) Advocate

For a series on municipal corruption.

Gaylord D. Shaw of Los Angeles Times

For a series on unsafe structural conditions at the nation's major dams.

Henry Kamm of The New York Times

For his stories on the refugees, "boat people," from Indochina.

William Safire of The New York Times

For commentary on the Bert Lance affair.

Walter Kerr of The New York Times

For articles on the theater in 1977 and throughout his long career.

Meg Greenfield of The Washington Post

For selected samples of her work.

Jeffrey K. MacNelly of Richmond (VA) News Leader

John H. Blair of United Press International

For a photograph of an Indianapolis broker being held hostage at gunpoint.

J. Ross Baughman of Associated Press

For three photographs from guerrilla areas in Rhodesia.

Point Reyes Light, a California weekly

For its investigation of Synanon.

Staff of San Diego (CA) Evening Tribune

For its coverage of the collision of a Pacific Southwest air liner with a small plane over its city.

Gilbert M. Gaul and Elliot G. Jaspin of Pottsville (PA) Republican

For stories on the destruction of the Blue Coal Company by men with ties to organized crime.

James Risser of Des Moines Register

For a series on farming damage to the environment.

Richard Ben Cramer of The Philadelphia Inquirer

For reports from the Middle East.

Jon D. Franklin of Baltimore Evening Sun

For an account of brain surgery.

Russell Baker of The New York Times

Paul Gapp of Chicago Tribune

Edwin M. Yoder Jr. of The Washington Star

Herbert L. Block of The Washington Post

For the body of his work.

Thomas J. Kelly III of Pottstown (PA) Mercury

For a series called "Tragedy on Sanatoga Road."

Staff Photographers of Boston Herald American

For photographic coverage of the blizzard of 1978.

Gannett News Service

For its series on financial contributions to the Pauline Fathers.

Staff of The Philadelphia Inquirer

For coverage of the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island.

Stephen A. Kurkjian, Alexander B. Hawes Jr., Nils Bruzelius, Joan Vennochi and Robert M. Porterfield of The Boston Globe

For articles on Boston's transit system.

Bette Swenson Orsini and Charles Stafford of St. Petersburg (FL) Times

For their investigation of the Church of Scientology.

Joel Brinkley and Jay Mather of Louisville Courier-Journal

For stories from Cambodia.

Madeleine Blais of The Miami Herald

For "Zepp's Last Stand."

Ellen H. Goodman of The Boston Globe

William A. Henry III of The Boston Globe

For critical writing about television.

Robert L. Bartley of The Wall Street Journal

Don Wright of The Miami News

Jahangir Razmi of Ettela'at, Iran

For the photograph "Firing Squad in Iran" that was distributed by United Press International. The photographer remained anonymous until his identity was revealed, with his consent, by Josh Prager of The Wall Street Journal in 2006.

Erwin H. Hagler of Dallas Times Herald

For a series on the Western cowboy.

Charlotte (NC) Observer

For its series on "Brown Lung: A Case of Deadly Neglect."

Staff of Longview (WA) Daily News

For its coverage of the Mt. St. Helens story, including the photographs by Roger A. Werth.

Clark Hallas and Robert B. Lowe of The Arizona Daily Star

For their investigation of the University of Arizona Athletic Department.

John M. Crewdson of The New York Times

For his coverage of illegal aliens and immigration.

Shirley Christian of The Miami Herald

For her dispatches from Central America.

Teresa Carpenter of The Village Voice, New York, NY

(The prize was first awarded to Janet Cooke of The Washington Post, but it was returned two days later after The Post learned that the winning story was fabricated.)

Dave Anderson of The New York Times

For his commentary on sports.

Jonathan Yardley of The Washington Star

For his book reviews.

Mike Peters of Dayton (OH) Daily News

Larry C. Price of Fort Worth (TX) Star-Telegram

For his photographs from Liberia.

Taro M. Yamasaki of Detroit Free Press

For his photographs of Jackson (Mich.) State Prison.

The Detroit News

For a series by Sydney P. Freedberg and David Ashenfelter which exposed the U.S. Navy's cover-up of circumstances surrounding the deaths of seamen aboard ship and which led to significant reforms in naval procedures.

Staff of Kansas City Star and Kansas City Times

For coverage of the Hyatt Regency Hotel disaster and identification of its causes.

Paul Henderson of The Seattle Times

For reporting which proved the innocence of a man convicted of rape.

Rick Atkinson of The Kansas City Times

For the uniform excellence of his reporting and writing on stories of national import.

John Darnton of The New York Times

For his reporting from Poland.

Saul Pett of Associated Press

For an article profiling the federal bureaucracy.

Art Buchwald of Los Angeles Times Syndicate

Martin Bernheimer of Los Angeles Times

For classical music criticism.

Jack Rosenthal of The New York Times

Ben Sargent of Austin (TX) American-Statesman

Ron Edmonds of Associated Press

For his coverage of the Reagan assassination attempt.

John H. White of Chicago Sun-Times

For consistently excellent work on a variety of subjects.

Jackson (MS) Clarion-Ledger

For its successful campaign supporting Governor Winter in his legislative battle for reform of Mississippi's public education system.

Editorial Staff of Fort Wayne (IN) News-Sentinel

For its courageous and resourceful coverage of a devastating flood in March 1982.

Loretta Tofani of The Washington Post

For her investigation of rape and sexual assault in the Prince George's County, Maryland, Detention Center.

Staff of The Boston Globe

For its balanced and informative special report on the nuclear arms race.

Thomas L. Friedman and Loren Jenkins of The New York Times and The Washington Post, (respectively)

For their individual reporting of the Israeli invasion of Beirut and its tragic aftermath.

Nan Robertson of The New York Times

For her memorable and medically detailed account of her struggle with toxic shock syndrome.

Claude Sitton of Raleigh (NC) News & Observer

Manuela Hoelterhoff of The Wall Street Journal

For her wide-ranging criticism on the arts and other subjects.

Editorial Board of The Miami Herald

For its campaign against the detention of illegal Haitian immigrants by federal officials.

Richard Locher of Chicago Tribune

Bill Foley of Associated Press

For his moving series of pictures of victims and survivors of the massacre in the Sabra Camp in Beirut.

James B. Dickman of Dallas Times Herald

For his telling photographs of life and death in El Salvador.

Los Angeles Times

For an in-depth examination of southern California's growing Latino community by a team of editors and reporters.

A team of reporters of Newsday, Long Island, NY

For their enterprising and comprehensive coverage of the Baby Jane Doe case and its far-reaching social and political implications.

Kenneth Cooper, Joan Fitz Gerald, Jonathan Kaufman, Norman Lockman, Gary Mc Millan, Kirk Scharfenberg and David Wessel of The Boston Globe

For their series examining race relations in Boston, a notable exercise in public service that turned a searching gaze on some the city's most honored institutions including The Globe itself.

John Noble Wilford of The New York Times

For reporting on a wide variety of scientific topics of national import.

Karen Elliott House of The Wall Street Journal

For her extraordinary series of interviews with Jordan's King Hussein which correctly anticipated the problems that would confront the Reagan administration's Middle East peace plan.

Peter Mark Rinearson of The Seattle Times

For "Making It Fly," his account of the new Boeing 757 jetliner.

Vermont Royster of The Wall Street Journal

Paul Goldberger of The New York Times

For architectural criticism.

Albert Scardino of Georgia Gazette, Savannah, GA

For his series of editorials on various local and state matters.

Paul Conrad of Los Angeles Times

Stan Grossfeld of The Boston Globe

For his series of unusual photographs which reveal the effects of war on the people of Lebanon.

Anthony Suau of The Denver Post

For a series of photographs which depict the tragic effects of starvation in Ethiopia and for a single photograph of a woman at her husband's gravesite on Memorial Day.

Fort Worth (TX) Star-Telegram

For reporting by Mark J. Thompson which revealed that nearly 250 U.S. servicemen had lost their lives as a result of a design problem in helicopters built by Bell Helicopter -a revelation which ultimately led the Army to ground almost 600 Huey helicopters pending their modification.

Thomas Turcol of Virginian-Pilot and Ledger-Star, Norfolk, VA

For City Hall coverage which exposed the corruption of a local economic development official.

Lucy Morgan and Jack Reed of St. Petersburg (FL) Times

For their thorough reporting on Pasco County Sheriff John Short, which revealed his department's corruption and led to his removal from office by voters.

William K. Marimow of The Philadelphia Inquirer

For his revelation that city police dogs had attacked more than 350 people -- an expose that led to investigations of the K-9 unit and the removal of a dozen officers from it.

Jon Franklin of The Baltimore Evening Sun

For his seven-part series "The Mind Fixers," about the new science of molecular psychiatry.