<row><cell>1983<cell>Fort Wayne (IN) News-Sentinel<cell>Loretta Tofani; Washington Post
<row><cell>1982<cell>Kansas City Star, Kansas City Times<cell>Paul Henderson; Seattle Times
<row><cell>1981<cell>Longview (WA) Daily News staff<cell>Clark Hallas, Robert B. Lowe; Arizona Daily Star
<row><cell>1980<cell>Philadelphia Inquirer<cell>Stephen A. Kurkjian, Alexander B. Hawes Jr., Nils Bruzelius, Joan Vennochi, Robert M. Porterfield; Boston Globe
<row><cell>1979<cell>San Diego Evening Tribune<cell>Gilbert M. Gaul, Elliot G. Jaspin; Pottsville (PA) Republican
<row><cell>1978<cell>Richard Whitt; Louisville Courier-Journal<cell>Anthony R. Dolan; Stamford (CT) Advocate
<row><cell>1977<cell>Margo Huston; Milwaukee Journal<cell>Acel Moore, Wendell Rawis Jr.; Philadelphia Inquirer
<row><cell>1975<cell>Xenia (OH) Daily Gazette<cell>Indianapolis Star
<row><cell>1974<cell>Hugh F. Hough; Arthur M. Petacque, Chicago Sun-Times<cell>William Sherman; New York Daily News
<row><cell>1973<cell>Chicago Tribune<cell>Sun Newspapers of Omaha
<row><cell>1972<cell>Richard Cooper, John Machacek; Rochester (NY) Times-Union<cell>Timothy Leland, Gerard M. O'Neill, Stephen A. Kurkjian, Anne De Santis; Boston Globe
<row><cell>1971<cell>Akron Beacon Journal staff<cell>William Hugh Jones; Chicago Tribune
<row><cell>1969<cell>John Fetterman; <nl>Louisville Courier-Journal and Times<cell>Albert L. Delugach; St. Louis Globe Democrat
<row><cell><cell><cell>Denny Walsh; Life
<row><cell>1968<cell>Detroit Free Press staff<cell>J. Anthony Lukas; New York Times
<row><cell>1967<cell>Robert V. Cox; Chambersburg (PA) Public Opinion<cell>Gene Miller, Miami Herald
<row><cell>1966<cell>Los Angeles Times staff<cell>John A. Frasca; Tampa (FL) Tribune
<row><cell>1965<cell>Melvin H. Ruder; Hungry Horse News (Columbia Falls, MT)<cell>Gene Goltz, Houston Post
<row><cell>1964<cell>Norman C. Miller; Wall Street Journal<cell>Shared by James V. Magee, Albert V. Gaudiosi, and Frederick A. Meyer; Philadelphia Bulletin
<row><cell>1963<cell>Shared by Sylvan Fox, William Longgood, and Anthony Shannon; New York World-Telegram & Sun<cell>Oscar Griffin, Jr.; Pecos (TX) Independent and Enterprise
<row><cell>1962<cell>Robert D. Mullins; Desert News, Salt Lake City<cell>George Bliss; Chicago Tribune
<row><cell>1961<cell>Sanche de Gramont; New York Herald Tribune<cell>Edgar May; Buffalo Evening News
<row><cell>1960<cell>Jack Nelson; Atlanta Constitution<cell>Miriam Ottenberg; Washington Evening Star
<row><cell>1959<cell>Mary Lou Werner; Washington Evening Star<cell>John Harold Brislin; Scranton (PA) Tribune and The Scrantonian
<row><cell>1958<cell>Fargo (ND) Forum<cell>George Beveridge; Evening Star, Washington, DC
<row><cell>1957<cell>Salt Lake Tribune, Salt Lake City, UT<cell>Wallace Turner, William Lambert; Portland Oregonian
<row><cell>1956<cell>Lee Hills; Detroit Free Press<cell>Arthur Daley; New York Times
<row><cell>1955<cell>Mrs. Caro Brown; Alice (TX) Daily Echo<cell>Roland K. Towery; Cuero (TX) Record
<row><cell>1954<cell>Vicksburg (MS) Sunday Post-Herald<cell>Alvin Scott McCoy; Kansas City (MO) Star
<row><cell>1953<cell>Providence (RI) Journal and Evening Bulletin<cell>Edward J. Mowery; New York World-Telegram & Sun
<row><cell>1952<cell>George de Carvalho; San Francisco Chronicle<cell>
<row><cell>1951<cell>Edward S. Montgomery; San Francisco Examiner<cell>
<row><cell>1950<cell>Meyer Berger; New York Times<cell>
<row><cell>1949<cell>Malcolm Johnson; New York Sun<cell>
<row><cell>1948<cell>George E. Goodwin; Atlanta Journal<cell>
<row><cell>1947<cell>Frederick Woltman; New York World-Telegram<cell>
<row><cell>1946<cell>William L. Laurence; New York Times<cell>
<row><cell>1945<cell>Jack S. McDowell; San Francisco Call-Bulletin<cell>
<row><cell>1944<cell>Paul Schoenstein; New York Journal-American<cell>
<row><cell>1943<cell>George Weller; Chicago Daily News<cell>
<row><cell>1942<cell>Stanton Delaplane; San Francisco Chronicle<cell>
<row><cell>1941<cell>Westbrook Pegler; New York World-Telegram<cell>
<row><cell>1940<cell>S. Burton Heath; New York World-Telegram<cell>
<row><cell>1939<cell>Thomas L. Stokes; Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance<cell>