Prize Pictures

Picture-conscious in a big way since its Wirephoto service was founded in 1935, the Associated Press hopefully submitted many a print to the second annual National News-Photo Contest run by Editor & Publisher, newsmen's trade weekly. Last week the magazine's judges announced the winners: first, John Lindsay for Working on the Levee, a rhythmic frieze of Negro convicts toting sandbags in February's flood; second, James Keen for Lowland Madonna, another flood scene of a young refugee nursing her baby; third, Edward O'Haire for J. P. Morgan Listens, a shot taken at the Morgan Senatorial inquiry (TIME, Jan. 20, 1936) in which the financier, an Edwardian figure of immense substantiality, is shown leaning forward over his broad centre of gravity and "pointing" at his inquisitors like a smart old bird dog.

With the announcement of these awards, Associated Press rejoiced, for Prizemen Lindsay, Keen & O'Haire are all A. P. men--a clean sweep. But before Winners Lindsay and Keen could collect their $100 and $50 prizes (to be taken either in cash or photographic equipment), an unfortunate complication arose: Working on the Levee and Lowland Madonna were declared ineligible. Editor & Publisher suddenly remembered that the Ohio-Mississippi flood occurred this year, not last, and that the contest had been limited to 1936 pictures. Apologizing handsomely, Editor & Publisher moved J. P. Morgan Listens up into first place and named two others for second and third. These were: second, an International News Photo re-enacted shot, by the New York Mirror's William Stahl, of a policeman blowing into a smothered infant's mouth third, a corpse being lowered from a burning building, taken by Dan Lane of the Atlanta Georgian-American.

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