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for a month.Last year, more tbsil 37^'mil-lion UNICEF cards'' were. sold around the world, providing sufficient proceeds to equip 20,000 small maternal and child health centers. :This year, officials say, they have added to their gallery an unusual and striking selection of designs. The official United Nations card is a reproduction Df a vivid tapestry by Pablo Picasso entitled “Haven” which hangs in a delegates’ lounge at U.N. headquarters.Send UNICEF Cards,Greeting cards/ designed by *n» of the world’s best known artiste, • help each year to fight hunger and disease among the world's underprivileged children.Tliey are sold by UNICEF—the United. Nations Children’s Fund.A fund raising project launched 10 years ago, the cards are now sold in more than 00 countries. With a universal, appeal, they arc used wherever greetings are exchanged, whether it be Christmasand New Year in the Christian world, Chanukah in Israel, or the Festival of Divali In India.With the proceeds from a single box of cards, UNICEF officials say' they can provide the vaccine to protect SD children against tuberculosis, or supply eight hungry children with a. daily glass of milkOther cprds inthe UNICEF collection were designed by Indiana-bom Misch Kohn; the Austro-American essayist, novelist andillustrator, Ludwig Bemelmans; French illustrator Andre Francois ; M, A. Rahman Chughtai of Pakistan, a descendant of the de* signer of the Tap Mahal, and Bedrl Rahrpi Eyuboglu of Turkey. There is also a series by Eskimo artists.The cards are distributed in the United States by the U. S. Committee for UNTCEF, which has headquarters at. tlie U. N,EGG SHELL C Trim carefully,( APRS FROM UNICEF — These five cards arc among those designed by famous artists for UNICEF. In the top row (left to right) are “The Ifprnhl,” by American Minch Kohn, “The Journey,by Ilcrfri Rnhml Eyuboglu of Turkey, and“Horen,” by Pablo Picasso, In the bottom row are The Star, by M, A. Rahman Cling-htai of Pakistan; nnd “Caribouby Pooto-gotik, a Baffin Island Eskimo.
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San Mateo Post
San Mateo, California, US
Thu, Nov 23, 1961
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