NEWS
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 1949.
OF THE DAY IN PICTURES
YOUTHFUL- COMPOSER-Kageaki Kajiwara, right, at 10 years of age is one of Japan's youngest com- posers. Ho la working on a new score in Tokyo with his sister-in-law accompanying him on the piano. He has written more than 100 musical scores since 1947 and has already presented a recital of his own work.
LARGEST, SUSPENSION PROJECT This sketch, released last July by the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority, shows the proposed bridge to link Staten Island, New York, left, and Brooklyn. The sketch is superimposed on an aerial photo of the area. The Manhattan skyline is in the centre background and New Jersey in the left background. U.S. Army engineers have approved plans for the world's largest suspension bridge across the Narrows of New York Harbour.
TROUBLE BREWING West Berlin railway strikers stopped a Communist strike-breaker before the Russian-controlled railway headquarters. Later fists flew and he was floored. The workers rejected a Western powers attempt to settle the. alkout.
SALVAGE PONTOON — This 'melon-shaped portoon, constructed of nylon cloth impregnated and spread with synthetic rubber compound, is being tested. in Akron, Ohio. Developed for the U.S. Navy, it will aid in keeping distressed ships alloat.
THEY'LL SHOW UP AGAIN-These porkers and sows on a farm near Chicago, Illinois, would not, graze so placidly if they realised their ultimate destination may be the stockyards in the city. Unaware of their doom as future pork chops, the little pigs and their mamas live for a'period in bucolic peace before winding
up on someone's dinner table; y
WET GOLF-Walking down a fairway in a pouring rain are King Leopold III,
of, Belgium, second from right, and his wife, the Princess of Rethy. The king was participating in a golf tournament at St Cloud, France, which had been organised by the French Federation of Golf. Other men are unidentified.
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32 STATES TO GO-On a two-year bicycle tour of the United States, Phil Palaske, 26, and his wife, Audrey, 23, of Denver, Colorado, pause in Chicago. They cele- brated their third wedding anniversary-on way to California after visiting 16 states."
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