THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 1949.
PICTORIAL
NEWSFRONT
NICE LINE-UP-The photo doesn't show what's on the other end of this rope in Cypress Gardens, Florida, but these lovelles are doing their utmost to find out. Whatever it is, it's a nice game-fun and very easy on the eyes.
TALKING DOLL--Chubby, · ·seven-year-old Kathy Foster has the closest thing to a real, live baby in her talking doll. The doll actually talks with a human voice, asking for milk, and cries and laughs as well. The effect is achieved by J. L. Schilling Co, engineers via a patented sound trick encased in the body of the doll and operated through a button.
CADET OBSERVERS-West Point cadets observe a combat team's parachute { jump during a week of operational training with the 82nd Airborne Division, at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina. Their instructor, Sgt. 1st Class Paul Huff, left, is one
of three Medal of Honour holders in the outfit.
STEAM FROM SCRATCH—Like a piece of string, 500 feet of seamless steel tubing is wound around the core of a diesel-fueled steam generator in Chicago, Illinois. The generator will build up a 200-pound head of steam in two minutes.
BUT THE PILOT'S O.K—After flying through trees and hitting a telephone pole, this small plane smashed to pleces under a gas storage tank in Lawrence, Kansas, without bursting into flame. The pilot, Allen Patterson, walked away from the wreckage with alight cuts and bruises,
DIVING CHAMP-Vicki Draves, Olympic diving champion, poses in Min- neapolis, Minnesota, where she appeared with 3 water show. Vicki's always an attraction.
TO HELP THE FARMER—This new farm sprinkler system is portable. A main pump supplles water for the aluminium arms which can cover n. 40-acre farm- with 3 Inches of water in 11 hours. The lad carrying the sprinkler demonstrates on a farm near Woodstock, Illinois, that it can easily be moved.
WHAT IN THE WORLD7-William Raaf, keeper of the St. Louis, Missouri Zoo's small reptile house, takes
a dim view of the zoo's new arrival, a Solenodon. The tiny animal, resembling a cross between an antenter
and a rat, comes from Halti
HIGH HAT Feathers and fabric streak sky- ward and crowns ip dizzily to one side in Claude Saint-Cyr's "carly. autumn collection in Paris. The hat, is design- ed to falter the short hairdo.
CHECK AND DOUBLE CHECK-Contest judges Ole Oleson, Irwin Rybicki and James Hopkins, left to right, check the height measurements of one of the model.. cars entered by contestants in Detroit, Michigan. They will choose the state, and regional winners throughout the country....