--- title: 'Anba'' Moussawarah (Pictorial News) No. 32/54: Sports in Pictures (illustrated news sheet distributed in Beirut)' url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/anba-moussawarah-32-sports-in-pictures-beirut-1954/ description: 'A two-page photo spread headed ''Sports in Pictures'': a long-distance swimmer, a pole vaulter, two boxers, a pit stop at the Indianapolis race and boys''' section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. Anba' Moussawarah (Pictorial News) No. 32/54: Sports in Pictures [![Anba' Moussawarah (Pictorial News) No. 32/54: Sports in Pictures, 1954 US poster: A two-page photo spread headed 'Sports](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/anba-moussawarah-32-sports-in-pictures-beirut-1954.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/anba-moussawarah-32-sports-in-pictures-beirut-1954.jpg) # Anba' Moussawarah (Pictorial News) No. 32/54: Sports in Pictures (illustrated news sheet distributed in Beirut) A two-page photo spread headed 'Sports in Pictures': a long-distance swimmer, a pole vaulter, two boxers, a pit stop at the Indianapolis race and boys' yacht fleets, each with an English caption. It presents American sporting achievement and amateur sport to a Middle Eastern readership. The tell is card-stacking: only successes and wholesome scenes are selected, with captions that note the athletes' firsts, records and immigrant descent. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` SPORTS IN PICTURES GREATEST LONG-DISTANCE SWIMMER is the unofficial woman's title held by Florence Chadwick of the United States. Miss Chadwick, well-known in the Near East where she has worked with an oil company, has swum the English Channel, the Bosporus and Dardanelles, the Strait of Gibraltar, and other world-famous water courses. POLE VAUTER Milton Campbell scores first in the National Amateur Athletic Union decathlon in the U.S. Campbell, youngest member of the U.S. Olympics team, won also the 110-meter hurdles and the shot put competitions. EUROPEAN-U.S. BOXERS tie 5 matches to 5 in amateur "Golden Gloves" competition in Chicago. Here, Ilkka Koski of Finland (right) battles Garvin Sawyer of Chicago in the heavyweight event. Fight was stopped--no winner--when the Finn was cut over the eye. QUICK CHANGE of tires, a drink of water, and Bill Vukovich is off to win the 800-kilometer Indianapolis Speedway race. The 36-year-old former automobile mechanic is an American of Slovenian descent. BERMUDA RACE of 1954 (see cover) drew a record of 77 yachts, manned by 500 yachtsmen, from Newport Rhode Island southeastward to Bermuda -- 635 nautical miles. Most U.S. yacht clubs have junior fleets of youngsters (above) who learn to rig, sail and race their own boats. [handwritten:] Front ``` Captions only; the large photographs carry no text. Faint show-through of the reverse side (an interview with Nora Kaye on American ballet) is not transcribed. The handwritten word 'Front' is an archival marking. [← Heroes Day Posters: Rizal, 'Without liberty there is no light' (English poster distributed in the Philippines)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/heroes-day-rizal-without-liberty-english-1954/) [The Duty of the Royal Cambodian Army Is to Defend Your Family (Khmer-language poster distributed in Cambodia) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/duty-of-the-royal-cambodian-army-defend-your-family-khmer-1954/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [Fragments of the Abydos king list from Ramesses II's temple, in the British Museum: rows of royal cartouches](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/abydos-king-list-ramesses-ii-temple-british-museum/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer) - [Behistun (Bisotun) rock relief and trilingual inscription of Darius I: the king, two attendants and the bound rebel leaders beneath the winged figure of Ahuramazda](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/behistun-relief-darius-and-rebels-521bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Name-calling, Testimonial). Content note: Shows bound captives before the king, and the inscription records the mutilation and public execution of rebel leaders, as the king's own account. - [Tomb of Darius I at Naqsh-e Rustam: the king in relief beside his inscription DNa, c. 490 BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dna-inscription-darius-i-naqsh-e-rustam-490bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Testimonial, Card stacking) - [Line drawing of the Great Kadesh battle relief on the walls of the Ramesseum, from Breasted's History of Egypt](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kadesh-relief-ramesseum-breasted-drawing-1275bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer). Content note: A drawing of an Egyptian royal battle relief showing Hittite soldiers and horses killed and drowned, as the king's monument presented the battle; it is a one-sided image made by the winning side's own account. - [Persepolis, Apadana staircase relief: a figure with an animal from a procession of delegations, early fifth century BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/persepolis-apadana-delegate-relief-500bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Manufactured consensus) - [Alabaster relief, Assyrian troops storming a citadel, from Nineveh (reign of Sennacherib)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/relief-sennacherib-storming-citadel-nineveh-704bce/) (Neo Assyrian Empire · 0000 · Card stacking). Content note: An Assyrian palace relief of troops storming a fortified city, with a file of figures below; Assyrian royal reliefs and texts record killing, mutilation and deportation, shown as carved, with the historical context and scholarly dispute on the regime page. - [Colour lithograph of the Latin text of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti on the wall of the temple of Roma and Augustus at Ancyra, with the heading in large letters (Perrot, Guillaume and Delbet, 1872)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lithograph-res-gestae-ancyra-heading-0014/) (Roman Empire · 0014 · Card stacking, Glittering generalities) - [Silver denarius of Vespasian, reverse IVDAEA with a trophy of arms and a seated mourning woman](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/denarius-vespasian-judaea-capta-0070/) (Roman Empire · 0070 · Card stacking). Content note: A Roman victory coin showing a mourning female figure as the personification of the conquered province of Judaea after the Roman suppression of the Jewish revolt; shown as struck, with the historical context on the regime page.