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title: Photos d'actualité poster, No. 3 (French, Beirut)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/photos-d-actualite-no-3-french-beirut-1964/
description: 'A French-language fold-out photo sheet (headed ''Photos d''actualité'') of six captioned news photographs: the Paul Taubman band''s concert crowd'
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# Photos d'actualité poster, No. 3 (French, Beirut)

A French-language fold-out photo sheet (headed 'Photos d'actualité') of six captioned news photographs: the Paul Taubman band's concert crowd in Leopoldville, Ethiopia's award to two Americans and an Eleanor Roosevelt stamp, African journalists at a Johnson campaign rally in Baltimore, a Liberian soccer coach at Beloit College, a U.S. relay team at the Tokyo Olympics, and Martin Luther King Jr. voting in Atlanta. The tell is card-stacking: the items are selected as goodwill, achievement and civic participation, and the Nobel and Olympic names transfer prestige to them.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
PHOTOS D'ACTUALITE

LES CONCERTS DE LA FANFARE DE TAUBMAN ATTIRENT LES FOULES
Paul Taubman traverse en courant le Stade Baudouin, à Léopoldville, au milieu d'une foule exubérante de jeunes faisant partie de l'auditoire de 30.000 personnes venues au concert donné par la fanfare du chef d'orchestre américain.
La fanfare de M. Taubman effectue une tournée de bonne volonté qui comprendra une vingtaine de pays. Les musiciens américains, à plus d'une reprise, ont invité des musiciens locaux à se joindre à eux pour jouer à la bonne franquette. Un autre de leurs habitudes, qui a rencontré beaucoup de succès, est d'inviter des membres de l'auditoire à diriger la fanfare — comme l'a fait cette jeune femme (à gauche) à Léopoldville. Le répertoire de la fanfare s'étend des oeuvres classiques légères, aux marches et au jazz dans le style Dixieland originaire de la Nouvelle-Orléans.

L'ETHIOPIE HONORE DEUX AMERICAINS POUR SERVICES RENDUS EN AFRIQUE
S.M. l'Empereur Haïlé Sélassié 1er passe une médaille d'or au cou du Dr William Leo Hansberry, lauréat du Prix Haïlé Sélassié de Recherche africaine. Le Dr Hansberry, qui enseigne au Hansberry College de l'Université du Nigeria, a également reçu un don important en espèces. Entre autres prix distribués, un prix des Beaux-Arts a été décerné au peintre éthiopien Ato Afework Tekle auteur du timbre (voir ci-dessous) émis en mémoire de feu la présidente Eleanor Roosevelt. Une partie du produit de la vente de ce timbre ira aux programmes humanitaires que Mme Roosevelt avait fait siens.

[timbre:] ETHIOPIA 10c ELEANOR ROOSEVELT DEFENDER OF HUMAN RIGHTS

DES JOURNALISTES AFRICAINS ASSISTENT AU TRIOMPHE ELECTORAL SANS PRECEDENT DU PRESIDENT JOHNSON
[body text of this item (about 1,100 characters) omitted here for length; it appears on the sheet beneath the headline]

UNE VEDETTE LIBERIENNE DU FOOTBALL ENTRAINE LES JOUEURS D'UNE UNIVERSITE AMERICAINE
Phillip Robinson (à genoux), vedette libérienne du football-association, enseigne la pratique de ce sport à l'heure actuelle au Beloit College, dans le Wisconsin (photo de gauche). La direction de l'établissement espère que son équipe, grâce aux leçons de Robinson, pourra tenir tête aux meilleures du pays. Dans la photo de droite, à Tokyo, une équipe américaine de la course de relais a réussi une brillante performance aux Jeux Olympiques de 1964. Les quatre coureurs qui ont couvert le relais de 1600m en 3 minutes 07 seconde, établissent ainsi un nouveau record olympique et mondial.

LE LAUREAT DU PRIX NOBEL DE LA PAIX VOTE POUR LE PRESIDENT
Le pasteur Martin Luther King, Prix Nobel 1964 de la paix, dépose son bulletin de vote à Atlanta, en Georgie, lors des élections américaines. Dr King est l'un des dirigeants les plus actifs du mouvement en faveur des droits civiques aux Etats-Unis qui devait aboutir à la promulgation de la loi sur les droits civiques de 1964. Agé de 35 ans, Dr King est le plus jeune lauréat du prix Nobel de la paix, le deuxième Noir et le quatorzième citoyen américain à être ainsi honoré. Dr King a déclaré que la contre-valeur du prix — près de 54.000 dollars — servirait à promouvoir la cause des droits civiques.

65-P-66 (16)
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
PICTURES IN THE NEWS (heading: 'News Photos')

TAUBMAN BAND CONCERTS DRAW CROWDS
Paul Taubman runs across Baudouin Stadium in Leopoldville amid an exuberant crowd of young people who were part of the audience of 30,000 who came to the concert given by the American conductor's band. Mr. Taubman's band is on a goodwill tour that will take in some twenty countries. On more than one occasion the American musicians have invited local musicians to join them to play informally. Another of their habits, which has had great success, is to invite members of the audience to lead the band, as this young woman (at left) did in Leopoldville. The band's repertoire ranges from light classical works to marches and to Dixieland-style jazz originating in New Orleans.

ETHIOPIA HONORS TWO AMERICANS FOR SERVICES RENDERED IN AFRICA
His Majesty Emperor Haile Selassie I places a gold medal around the neck of Dr William Leo Hansberry, winner of the Haile Selassie Prize for African Research. Dr Hansberry, who teaches at Hansberry College of the University of Nigeria, also received a substantial cash gift. Among other prizes awarded, a Fine Arts prize went to the Ethiopian painter Ato Afework Tekle, designer of the stamp (see below) issued in memory of the late Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt. Part of the proceeds from the sale of this stamp will go to the humanitarian programmes Mrs Roosevelt had made her own.

[stamp:] ETHIOPIA 10c ELEANOR ROOSEVELT DEFENDER OF HUMAN RIGHTS

AFRICAN JOURNALISTS WITNESS PRESIDENT JOHNSON'S UNPRECEDENTED ELECTORAL TRIUMPH
[body text of this item omitted here for length; it appears on the sheet beneath the headline]

A LIBERIAN SOCCER STAR TRAINS THE PLAYERS OF AN AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
Phillip Robinson (kneeling), Liberian association-football star, is at present teaching the sport at Beloit College in Wisconsin (left photo). The college's management hopes that, thanks to Robinson's lessons, its team will be able to hold its own against the best in the country. In the right photo, in Tokyo, an American relay team turned in a brilliant performance at the 1964 Olympic Games. The four runners, who covered the 1600 m relay in 3 minutes 07 seconds, thus set a new Olympic and world record.

THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNER VOTES FOR THE PRESIDENT
Pastor Martin Luther King, 1964 Nobel Peace Prize winner, casts his ballot in Atlanta, Georgia, in the American elections. Dr King is one of the most active leaders of the civil rights movement in the United States, which was to lead to the enactment of the 1964 civil rights law. Aged 35, Dr King is the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, the second Black man and the fourteenth American citizen to be so honored. Dr King declared that the equivalent of the prize, nearly 54,000 dollars, would be used to promote the civil rights cause.

65-P-66 (16)
```

Printed 3:07 for the relay time as set (the English edition prints 3:00.7); the code at lower left was read as 65-P-66 (16). The body paragraph under the journalists' headline is left out of this transcription to stay within the length limit.

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