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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1949.
PICTORIAL
NEWSFRONT
THEY'RE BIG GALS-The Tall People's Club held a convention in New York's Central Park to select an' Amazon queen. Helen Lukacs, 22, of Chicago, centre, won although she's only five feet, eleven inches. Madeleine Rainey, left, of Philadelphia and Virginia Gentili of New York were six-foot competitors."
WHERE THE TYPHOON STRUCK—A guest house at U.S. Army headquarters on Okinawn is just a heap of wreckage after a 150-mile-an-hour storm struck the area. Similar damage was reported' throughout the Island. Among those killed during the violent storm was ono American child. Sixteen other Americans
were injured.
OPENING UP-Bebe, the hippopotamus at a Chleago, "Illinois, zoo, opens its jaw wide for keeper Eli Markatis. Markmis looks as if he might be teasing Bebe, but from the size of that eating-gap, the hippo looks deadly serious.
OVER THE PALMS —— Giant Catalina flying boats salute the U.S. Naval Air Station in Miami, Florida. The planes were flown from Squantum, Massachusetts, by U.S. Naval Reservists to participate in the first all-reserve squadron manoeuvres ever held on the east coast.
BOXER TURNS COOK~Gus Lesnevich is contender for culinary honours as well as for the heavyweight championship. At his training camp in Summit, New Jersey, where he's working out for his bout with champion Ezzard Charles, Gus' family tries his cooking. Gary, the youngest, is testing a steak for his mother,
Jillian, and older.brother, Gus, Jr.
SOMETHING NEW Latest thing in bathing sults La modelled by Mardia Miller, in New York. This one is made of pinatic lumite and is almost certain to please girls of every age.
VANDERING FREIGHT CARS-After reaching one
end of a bridge over the Ohio River, in Cincinnati, two freight cars leaped 20 feet from one trestle to another. The accident caused a third car to dangle by the couplings between the trestles,, doralling eight more cars in the smash-up,
N-ICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT — During an ice industry convention in Chicago, Illinois, the
ho temperature stayed in the nineties. Business man Daniel Prager, of Washington, D. C., found a chunk of ice up on the roof and used it
to sit on while dictating to Sylvin
"JUNIORS MARCH—These girl bagpipers are marching in London, England, where they gave a concert. Their average age is 14, and they came 700 miles from Scot»'.
Si land to play their music,
THEY PLAY, AN OLD GAME--While studying international relations in Eng., land, students Phyllis Oslom, left, and Dorothy Shelly took on two male opponents
lawn blillards in London. The game was brought to England by Chai
to the 17th Century.