(1954) Virginia Schau, an amateur from San Anselmo, California, for snapping a thrilling rescue at Redding, California, the picture being published in The Akron (Ohio) Beacon Journal and other newspapers and nationally distributed by Associated Press.
(1955) John L. Gaunt, Jr. of the Los Angeles Times for 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.
(1956) Staff of the 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.
(1957) Harry A. Trask of Boston Traveler for his photographic sequence of the sinking of the liner SS Andrea Doria, the pictures being taken from an airplane flying at a height of 75 feet nine minutes before the ship sank. (The second picture in the sequence is cited as the key photograph.)
(1958) William C. Beall of The Washington Daily News (Washington, D.C.) for his photograph Faith and Confidence, showing a policeman patiently reasoning with a two-year-old boy trying to cross a street during a parade.
'1962) Paul Vathis of the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, bureau of Associated Press, for the photograph Serious Steps, published April 22, 1961.
'1963) Héctor Rondón of La República (Caracas, Venezuela), for his picture of a priest holding a wounded soldier in the 1962 El Porteñazo insurrection in Venezuela: Aid From The Padre. The photograph was distributed by the Associated Press.
