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

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

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

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.

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.