THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1949,
PICTORIAL
NEWSFRONT
KEEPS IN SHAPE-Levi Jackson, Yale grid captain, tussles a few tons of cement on a street in New Haven, Connecticut, in pre-season exercises.
The temperature in the nineties doesn't affect him and he goes to the Yale gym every
evening in an effort to lose 20 pounds.
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REPAVING NEW YORK STREET-A steam shovel tears up huge chunks of pavement at 42nd Street and Second Avenue, in New York, to begin repaving one of the world's busiest thoroughfares. Old trolley tracks will be ripped out but, since only half the street will be repaved at one time, it will not be closed to traffic.
HE WRITES DIRECTIONS Edward B. Giloy, sign painter at the Ford plant in. Dearborn, Michigan, dresses up some new plant traffic signs. With nearly 8,500 vehicles going in and out every day, the signs leave nothing to drivers' imaginations.
PAYING-OFF Shovelling coins-into-a-wheelbarrow are American, showgirls Ann Williamson, Clair M. Roddewig and Mrs Henry Gross. An estimated U.S.$300 had been dropped into an old wishing well at the Railway Fair in Chicago, for the Community Fund.
"NAUTICAL- -Actress- Joan Vohs, In Holly- wood, California, looks salty as all get out behind the wheel of a studio ship that isn't really going anywhere..
TRAINING FOR THE MEET This crack-filly, Record Express, daughter of Phonograph, expects to make her rivals step lively in the U.S.$67,000 Hambletonian Stake in Goshen, New York. Clair Wolverton is shown training the filly in that city: Owned by L. E. Lake, of Colfax, Indiana, neither Lake nor Wolverton has ever won the rich stake but both are hoping Record Express
will pull in in time. ^
TRYING TO COOL OFF-Five chorus girls from the Folies Bergere, in Paris, France, demonstrate their precision timing between the acts by gulping their drinks in unison. Everything's hot in Paris these days particularly the weather.
THROWING THE BULL-Little Patty Dahlstrom, of Houston, attended a “rodeo near Brackettville, Tezas, and betrayed every second of her anxiety, While the "others took- things more calmly, Patty was just füscinated with the spectacle.
FLAMINGO SEASON-The flamingos feeding at Hialeah Park
track near Mami, Florida, make it
hire of attraction even when the horses are not running. It is the only place where the birds breed in,
captivity. They are seen by, about 500,000 tourists every
ANOTHER NATURE BOY-But this lad in the Dominican Repubile, is probably thinking about at the candy bara, that could be made from the cocon beans he's picking Most of them are exported; 8,888 tons were shipped in the first quarter of 1949.