THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1949.
PICTORIAL
NEWSFRONT
REVEALS COSMIC RAY DATA—A U.S. Navy Aero- beo sounding rocket rests in its launcher before being fired at sea from the deck of the USS Norton Sound.
The rocket rose 65 miles and revealed that cosmic ray Intensity above the atmosphere of the geomagnetic equator is twice as great as had been estimated.
COMICS THROUGH THE AGES-Prehistoric cavemen didn't know what they were starting when they made their first crude drawings 20,000 years ago. Ac- cording to Dr Charles F. Gosnell, New York State Librarian, our own modern comics are direct descendants of the ancient pictures. Here, Dr Gosnell (left), at a special exhibit in Albany, New York, called "Twenty Thousand Years of Comics," talks over Items in display with Olof Starkenburg (centre), Swedish newspaper correspondent, and Miss Mary M. Brewster, library assistant..
TAKING OFF-Actress Hedy Lamarr seemed un- touched by the heat as she arrived in New York by plane. After a short visit to the big city, she left for Europe on a vacation.
IT'S JUST ABOUT RIGHT Before she sailed to England from New York, 16-year-old Shirley May France tried the temperature of the water in the swimming pool of the liner Nieuw Amsterdam. She will try to swim the English Channel and, if successful, will be the youngest person to conquer the rough waters.
FIT FOR A QUEEN-Chef Max de Lear, centre, looks on as Sanford Adler feeds actress Barbara Freking some Oriental-type soup, in Del Mar, California. They all seem to approve its flavour.
RIDING FOR FRANCE-The most colourful of all French Colonial troops, the Spahis, have been formally incorporated into the French Army. The horseman- ship of the Arabian troops is virtually un- excelled. At an exhibi- tion near Paris, this horse dropped to the ground on command to form cover over which his master can shoot.
IT'S ABOUT TIME Branch Dykes, Jr., and Robert Kellt, right, sensibly wear what should be a popular style for men during hot weather. Oblivious of the two oglers, they stride along New York's Fifth Avenue in knee length Bermuda shorts while the temperature is in the nineties..
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CUTE NOW, BUT LATER-OH, BOY-Deputies hold seven baby wolves in the county auditor's office in Polk City, Iowa,, not far from where Harold Wicker of Granger found them while he was out hunting mushrooms. Wicker turned the pups in for the U.S.35 head bounty the county pays for wolves.
animals will be destroyed.
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NIGHT DISPLAY The famous Cathedral of Notre Dame, in Paris, is illuminated by Greworks set off on a nearby bridge. During the celebration of Bastille Day, France's greatest holiday, public buildings throughout the country were lighted.
"SAD WINNER —
Maureen Gallagher, 19 months, turned on her tears after winning "baby beauty" contest : In Cleveland, Ohio. Maybe
she thought the judges were kidding..
ANOTHER FISH STORY? - Donnie Sollars, eight, almost lost this bass. It caught the lad's hook, In a lake near Rocky Mount, North Carolina, and pulled Donnie into the water. But the boy's father Jumped:
In and pulled them both out.