THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1948.
WORLD NEWS IN PICTURES
LAVORATORI OF
NAPOLTSALUTANO FRATERNAMENTE
MOGONUCIO
CENTRE OF ATTENTION..."Kissing Jim" Folsom, Governor of Alabama, gives the cameraman a knowing wink as students at a New York school for fashion models crowd around to kiss him. Folsom flew to New York to keep a date with 500 beau- - ties who voted him Number One Leap Year Bachelor.
ITALIAN. REDS Communists, at Naples meet 'colonists returning from Italian Somaliland with placards reading: "Anglo-Americans are responsible for the des- truction of your lives." The-Communists have stepped up their propaganda cam- paigu in preparation for the April 18 elections.
"SKYHOOK”—That's the name of this new plastic balloon, used for research of the upper atmosphere. Tested near Minneapolls, it is capable of rising 20 miles with a 70-pound load of instruments. The instruments, released under parachutes, float to earth recording temperatures, pressures, cosmic ray/ intensities, solar radiation, and other physical phenomena. (U. S. Navy- Photo).
EX-COWBOY TOUCH-Artist Glen Rounds is looking for. new walls to conquer. The ex-cowboy-turned- painter thinks the bare outsides of people's homes should reflect the pictorial tastes of the owners, and demonstrates what he means on bis own home at Southern Pines, North Carolina.
FUR ASCOT This silver- blue mink ascot can bo' worn around the neck as an ascol or over the shoulders as a stole. It was among the furs displayed at a New York showing.
JUMPING THE GUN-Football coach Ray Ellot of the University of Illinois gets an early start with spring training. Here he gives quarterback prospects;
a work-out.
SOME MUSCLE With a look of admiration, six-year- old Robert McEllory tests Jersey Joe Walcott's muscles after an exhibition fight in Chicago. Jersey Joe is on tour, tuning up for his coming fight with champion Joe, Louis.
FROM THE RUINS-BEAUTY-These young London art students don't have to go far to find material for their sculpture class. They simply pick up blocks of masonry from the rubble of blitzed bulldings. Their studio is an old army Nissen hut.
CANDIDATE — Rene La fitte, 20, a Chicago model, is among these competing for the litto of Queen of the Chicago
Press Photogra phers' Association.
TURKISH PEASANTS FLEE FLOODS-Peasants at Adana, Turkey, carry household goods and animals ne they try to escape, rising flood waters. Heavy rains caused the Seyhan and Oeyhan rivers to overflow, their banks. The flood, described as the worst in 50 years, claimed more than 400 lives, wrecked scores of villages and drowned thousands of heads of livestock,