The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1952. The gold medal awarded for Public Service in Journalism The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical compositions. ... 1952 (MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Journalism Awards

• Public Service:
  • St. Louis Post-Dispatch, for its investigation and disclosures of wide spread corruption in the Internal Revenue Bureau and other departments of the government.
• Local Reporting:
  • George De Carvalho of the San Francisco Chronicle, for his stories of a ransom racket extorting money from Chinese in the United States for relations held in Red China.
• National Reporting:
  • 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.
• International Reporting:
  • John M. Hightower of Associated Press, for the sustained quality of his coverage of news of international affairs during the year.
• Editorial Writing:
  • Louis LaCoss of the St. Louis Globe Democrat, for his editorial entitled, The Low Estate of Public Morals.
• Editorial Cartooning:
  • Fred L. Packer of the New York Mirror, for Your Editors Ought to Have More Sense Than to Print What I Say !
• Photography:
  • 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.

The Pulitzer Prize for Public Service has been awarded since 1918 for a distinguished example of meritorious public service by a newspaper through the use of its journalistic resources which may include editorials, cartoons, and photographs, as well as reporting. ... The St. ... The San Francisco Chronicle, the self-described Voice of the West, is Northern Californias largest newspaper. ... The Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting has been awarded since 1948 for a distinguished example of reporting on national affairs. ... The New York Times is a newspaper published in New York City by Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. ... Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the thirty-third President of the United States (1945–1953); as Vice-President, he succeeded to the office upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. ... Douglas MacArthur (January 26, 1880 – April 5, 1964) was an American general and Medal of Honor recipient, who was Supreme Commander of Allied forces in the South West Pacific Area during World War II. He led the defense of Australia, and the recapture of New Guinea, the Philippines and Borneo. ... The Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting has been awarded since 1948 for a distinguished example of reporting on international affairs, including United Nations correspondence. ... Associated Press logo Associated Press, or AP, is an American news agency, the worlds largest such organization. ... The Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing has been awarded since 1917 for distinguished editorial writing, the test of excellence being clearness of style, moral purpose, sound reasoning, and power to influence public opinion in what the writer conceives to be the right direction. ... The St. ... The Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning has been awarded since 1922 for a distinguished cartoon or portfolio of cartoons published during the year, characterized by originality, editorial effectiveness, quality of drawing, and pictorial effect. ... The New-York Mirror was a newspaper published in New York City under many variant titles, remembered by students of American literature for printing the first editions of poems by Edgar Allan Poe. ... Given since 1942, the Pulitzer Prize for Photography was divided in 1968 into the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography and the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography. ... John Robinson and Don Ultang were the 1952 Pulitzer Prize winner for Spot News Photography For their sequence of 6 pictures of the Drake-Oklahoma A & M football game of October 20, 1951, in which player Johnny Brights jaw was broken. ... The Des Moines Register is the daily morning newspaper of Des Moines, Iowa, in the United States. ... Johnny D. Bright (born June 11, 1930, Fort Wayne, Indiana; died December 14, 1983, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) was a professional football player with the Canadian Football League (primarily with the Edmonton Eskimos) and an outstanding college football player at Drake University. ...

Letters, Drama and Music Awards

• Fiction:
  • The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk.
• Drama:
  • The Shrike by Joseph Kramm.
• History:
  • The Uprooted by Oscar Handlin.
• Biography or Autobiography:
  • Charles Evans Hughes by Merlo J. Pusey.
• Poetry:
  • Collected Poems by Marianne Moore.
• Music:
  • Symphony Concertante by Gail Kubik, performed at The Town Hall, January; 7, 1952.

The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction has been awarded since 1948 for distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life. ... The Caine Mutiny, a 1954 movie directed by Edward Dmytryk, and based on Herman Wouks Pulitzer Prize-winning (1951), best-selling novel and subsequent stage hit (The Caine Mutiny Court Martial), provided Humphrey Bogart with the next-to-last great role of his acting career and a spectacular comeback... Herman Wouk (May 27, 1915 —) is a bestselling American author with a number of notable novels to his credit, including The Caine Mutiny, The Winds of War, and War and Remembrance. ... The Pulitzer Prize for Drama was first awarded in 1918. ... The Pulitzer Prize for History has been awarded since 1917 for a distinguished book upon the history of the United States. ... The Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography has been presented since 1917 for a distinguished biography or autobiography by an American author. ... The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry has been presented since 1922 for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author. ... Marianne Moore photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1948 Marianne Moore (December 11, 1887 - February 5, 1972) was a Modernist American poet and writer. ... The Pulitzer Prize for Music was first awarded in 1943. ... Gail Thompson Kubik (b. ... The Town Hall is a performance space located at 123 West 43rd Street, between Sixth Avenue and Broadway, in New York City, New York. ...

Special Awards and Citations

• Journalism:
  • 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.

The Pulitzer Prize jury has the option of awarding special citations where they consider necessary. ... The New York Journal American was a newspaper purchased by William Randolph Hearst in 1895 (at the time called the New York Morning Journal, then the New York Journal). ... The Pulitzer Prize jury has the option of awarding special citations where they consider necessary. ... The Kansas City Star is a newspaper in Kansas City, Missouri. ...

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