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title: 'Anba'' Moussawarah (Pictorial News) No. 34/54: News in Pictures (illustrated news sheet distributed in Beirut)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/anba-moussawarah-34-news-in-pictures-beirut-1954/
description: 'A photo page headed ''News in Pictures'': a Korean-American diving champion honoured by the Amateur Athletic Union.'
section: Collection
---

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[![Anba' Moussawarah (Pictorial News) No. 34/54: News in Pictures, 1954 US poster: A photo page headed 'News in Pictures'](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/anba-moussawarah-34-news-in-pictures-beirut-1954.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/anba-moussawarah-34-news-in-pictures-beirut-1954.jpg)

# Anba' Moussawarah (Pictorial News) No. 34/54: News in Pictures (illustrated news sheet distributed in Beirut)

A photo page headed 'News in Pictures': a Korean-American diving champion honoured by the Amateur Athletic Union, a Black schoolteacher cited by Columbia University, a Boeing jet in flight, and U.S. soldiers helping with 1954 Danube-region floods. The tell is card-stacking: American achievements and relief work are selected and ordered together, and the named individuals' honours are the selected content.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
NEWS IN PICTURES

DIVING CHAMPION Major Sammy Lee, American-born of Korean parents, is currently making a tour of Asia. Before departing the U.S., Major Lee was presented a sports award by the Amateur Athletic Union, as his mother looked on approvingly.

NEGRO MUSIC TEACHER, Miss Lennie Green (second from right) was among six teachers cited by Columbia University for distinguished service to American education. Miss Green teaches at the Booker T. Washington secondary school in the southern State of Georgia.

OVER MT. RANIER soars the first U.S.-built jet transport during extensive test flights. As a commercial transport, the Boeing 707 can carry 80 to 130 passengers at 550 miles per hour cruising speed.

EUROPEAN FLOODS cause widespread human suffering and property damage in large areas of central and eastern Europe. U.S. President Eisenhower has ordered all American military and civilian personnel stationed in the area to give emergency assistance in rescue operations. Worst hit is the Danube Valley and areas along east German rivers running north. The U.S. offered food and medicine to communist officials in the countries behind the Iron Curtain for distribution to flood victims.

BUILDING ARE ISOLATED BY FLOOD WATERS IN BAVARIA.

NEAR VIENNA, U.S. SOLDIERS FILL SANDBAGS TO RE-INFORCE DIKES -- "CARE" PACKAGES ARE DISTRIBUTED BY BOAT -- THOUSANDS FLEE THEIR HOMES.

[handwritten:] Front
```

Captions only. 'RANIER' and 'BUILDING ARE ISOLATED' are transcribed as printed. A partly legible street sign in one photograph and faint show-through of the reverse side are not transcribed.

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