THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JULY 4, 1949.
WORLD NEWS IN PICTURES
FLYING AMBULANCE-U.S. Coast Guards put seaman Erno Settella into a waiting ambulance in New York after he was flown ashore. Sottella's skull was fractured when he was struck by a flywheel aboard a fishing trawler.
plane went to the rescue.
The
TURKISH PIANO PRODIGY—Curly-haired Idil Birel,
who must sit on a telephone book to reach the keyboard, plays one of her compositions,. "The Little' Hallway." The soven-year-old Turkish girl, in Paris: on a scholarship from her government, is the youngest student at the National Academy of Music and received high praise after her first official recital in the French capital.
EXTRA FOR ONE CENT-Car denler Elwood Edwards, in Denver, Colorado, plus a one-cent sign on a used car he had in stock. With every purchase of a new model, he offered an old car for just one cent. Edwards got the Idea from drug store sales, and, at that price, his customers would have appeared a little unfair if they had tried to bargain with him,
STAGE DOLLS-Beatrice Pearson (left) and Helen. Hayes hold dolls showing them as they appeared in slage roles. Beatrico's doll recalls "Voice of the "Turtle;" Helen's "Victoria Regina."
Dolls were displayed at the Museum of the Clly of New York.
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COLLECTS CIGAR BANDS Arthar Abraham inspects group showing seals of various states, one unit of his 29,000 cigar bands, at International Cigar Band Society, New York.
DOING IT RIGHT-The tourist season is on in Rome, Italy, and Mrs Helen Thorsson, of Stockholm, Sweden, is making a permanent record of her memoriés. She is sketching the ruins of a Roman temple in the ancient Forum of the Eternal City.
BOTH ELIGIBLE— Phyllis Kessler, left, of Green Bay, Wisconsin, who was named Miss Wisconsin, in Milwaukee, huge a rival, Dolores Ulrich, Miss Milwaukee. Both girls eligible for the Miss America contest.
are now
NICE PRESENT Tom Dowd, right, Red Sox travelling secretary, lets out a happy yell at sight of the 10-pound salmon that was sent to Ted Williams, Boston Blugger, left. The Ash was a present to Williams, in Boston, from two Maine fishermen.
PROTECTI
MMA Susan, Australian- swan,
Blicken and
ORIENTAL AIR-Clever draping lends a bolero. effect to the bodice of this London creation. Done in an Interesting print that is Oriental In both colour and design, the frock has a smoothly-fitted midriff band with a large bustle: bow in the back,
SECOND GENERATION—Tiger triplets
not
a day old receive a visit from
Mrs Holen Martini, In
a next-door neighbour, at the Bronx Zoo, New York. charge of the animal nursery, sees that Sandy, baby orangoutang from Borneo, gets a proper Introduction. The triplets-two females and a male-were, the second litter born to five-year-old Dacen, father of the tub trio, which weighed almost a total of nine pounds, la 600-pound Rajpur
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