Photo story: 1 of 6
Photo Stories, 2nd prize
A woman is being rescued from the river Seine, Paris, after she tried to drown herself.
General News,2nd prize
Jean Mounicq
Paris-presse l'intransigeant
01 January, 1960
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1961 Photo Contest
Helmuth Pirath
Albert Winkler
Arild Kristo
Matt Herron
Héctor Rondón Lovera
Peter Sheppard
Carl O. Löfman
Otto J. Nöcker
André Lefèbvre
Yasushi Nagao
Erkki Laitila
Warren K. Leffler
Herbert Peterhofen
Victor Blackman
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