Inside is a photo of 17 year old Richard Kujoth contemplating a chess move.>

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The study later was found to be incorrect and corrected by Mario Guido Garcia in 2012 by adding a pair of pawns on a2/a3.

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Richard Kujoth. Chess Life, 5 March 1951.
Also: Chess Life & Review, July 1972, 4th prize.
White to move and draw

In EG 40, p. 220 and 221 the award was quoted saying "A study by an expert U.S. practical player who has produced some smashing miniature games that have been known around the world." Here the study has the 4th prize. The 2nd prize by Bor was cooked by Ernest Pogosyants in Chess Life & Review, May 1975, p. 314.

This points towards a rather long period of confirmation of the award, as I didn't find it in 1975. So I looked at the two previous years. Indeed, in July 1974, p. 473 and 474 I find the relevant information (<The awards become final after a waiting period of three months following publication of this article.>) and the complete commentary of judge Walter Korn:
<A study by an expert practical player who has produced some smashing miniature games that have become known around the world. His style - brisk and dynamic - is reflected in this novel piece wherein the stalemate serves as a rescue in a truly dramatic manner. The study has its own merit regardless of its composer's nationality, and therefore the "'special prize" for the best American composition has been transferred to another deserving piece.\ I RxPch NxR 2 N-B7ch K-N3 3 N·R8ch QxN 4 Q-NS! QxQ, stalemate.>

So it seems that the award was final when Bor's study was cooked. Kujoth's study received the fourth prize, and wrongly has the third prize in the database of Harold van der Heijden. And in another fact, the study should have been disqualified on the spot as it was published in 1951 already.

The mystery remains: Was Bor's study disqualified after the award was supposedly final? Or is there some piece I am missing?