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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JULY 8, 1949...
THE DAY IN PICTURES
THIS IS A SURPRISE-A reversal of the usual order Is this sign, at a Swan Lake, New York, hotel. Holiday-makers like Florence Baker are invited to help themselves to the thousands of pooles planted for guests to wear as a corsage or lapel flower at dinner time.
AERIAL GUNNERY CHAMPS-The Navy's Pacific Fleet gunnery champlons count their hits in an aerial sleeve target after a practice gunnery mission. Ammunition fired by each pilot is tipped with a different colour of paint and when the projectiles pierce the target they leave a trace of colour, enabling the pilot to determine his number of hilts, or score, These experts, at Alameda, California, are Lt. James Riggan, Ensign Jack L. Snyder, Comdr. Robert G.
Boyd and Lt. Comdr. John Rickabaugh,
FINAL BRUSH-UP-An intent two-year-old, Margaret James, of Maidstone, England, brushes her pekingese, Jonathan of Wykemanor, in preparation for the --. judging ring at London's Pekingese Show. The pooch is bearing up under the ordeal, but he doesn't look very happy about it.
PAINTING THE QUEEN—Joe Lindon Smith, an artisi from Dublin, New Hampshire, is working in Luxor, Egypt. He is completing an oil painting, for the Boston Museum of Fine Aris, of a staturo, of Queen Nefertiti who ruled in Egypt some 4,000 years ago.
REBUILDING MAYAN STRUCTURES-Visitors inspect the partially rebuilt main temple in the plaza at Zaculou, Guatemala, old Mayan capital and religious centre. It is being reconstructed as a monument to the race which created a powerful Central American civilisation 1,400 years ago. Temples and pyramids are being erected by local labourers in the same primitive manner in which they were originally bullt. Zaculeu is about 50 miles from Guatemala City, the capital.
PORTIA MAPS LEGAL STRATEGY -Mrs Inez Horton Gay, 25, of Montclair, Now Jersey, a former model, checks ́n law book outside the U.S. Supremo Court where she looks for help in collecting some $33,000 which she claims was left to her by her mother. Mrs Gay, who says she must act as her own lawyer because previous court actions have used up all her savings, has filled an appeal asking the high court to order the New Jersey Supreme Court to give her a hearing.
HE CAN HARDLY STAND IT~Though his British tar's uniform meets all Navy requirements, Nigel Mallinson, four, didn't like the noise of a Naval cele- bration at Southsea, England. He did what he could to ellimitate it, but it didn't help much.-
MAMA COMES TO THE RESCUE-Neither the presence of humans nor the bars of a cage can keep this mama robin from feeding her child on schedule. The baby bird, in the cage, was rescued from a cat. Christened Lucky, it was housed in an old bird cage. The mother bird files into the family dining room to feed her baby every 15 minutes. *
FOR A CRUISE-This striped cotton sunback with its brief bolero was designed for summer cruises. The jacket is. held by one button.
SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING OLDER - Emmet Kelly is the despair of the fashionable circus. White the rest of the cast Is bespangled. In the greatest array of finery in all show business, the veteran clown of Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus is. clad in the "rags and tatters" he's used for years. Bought 25 years ago, the pants are kept together with pins, knots, clothespins and baling wire.