THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1949,
PICTORIAL
NEWSFRONT
STILL AT IT-Motorists at New York's 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue are having a rough time of it. Old trolley tracks are being torn up and the famous street is being repaved. This photo shows part of the Public
Library in background.
NEW TYPE LIFEBOAT—Introduced by the U.S. Coast Guard at Rockaway, New York, this abandon-ship. boat weighs only 186 pounds complete with emergency equipment, and can keep 35 men afloat. Made of rubber, it's 14 feet long, 6 feet wide and folds into a small bag which one man can holst on his shoulders and drop into the water.
WILLING TO LEARN-While her parents are in Panama, little Michele Maker visits her grandparents
in Westbury, New York. Since they are horse trainers, the tot is learning a lot about grooming. Here she helps her favourite, Rusty Hanover, to stay cool.
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WIN SNIPE YACHT RACE-In the third day of the world snipe class sailing championship regatta, off Larchmont, New York, the American, entry, above, captured the race. Nine boats representing as many countries participated in the race.
ALL CHANGED ROUND-During the war a dynamite plant occupied this site' in Kaufbeuren, Germany. But 6,000 former residents of the Sudetanland, now expelled by the Czechs from Gablonz, have turned it into a new community.
UST MARRIED
ENTHRONED ON SHELLS Girls who participated in the U.S. National Seafood Festival, Sept. 16-17, at Hampton, Virginia, are pictured atop a mammoth pile of oyster shells.
THE SERVICE WITH THE SMILE-Because of a fight at Shibo Park, In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in which pop bottles were thrown, the management ordered vendors to hold onto them in the fature. Hero Ed Schneider pours for Sally Rowley and Ed Strobach. He trusts them, but he has to obey orders.
UNDER A GOOD SIGNA fortune teller told Louis Villani, of North Bergen, New Jersey, that he'd have good luck if he got married where He met his bride. So the happy couple went to the Steel Pier in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and had the knot tied in a diving bell where they first became nequáinted.”
WITH A BURR Created in Britain with #way Scottish air, this greatcoat offers attrae- tive protection against winter's blustery winds, Made of green vekur, it lined with bright
Plaid.
ENJOYING A COOL REPAST-Now that the
season is temporarily over at Hialeah, Fla., Lynn Mergi and Bonny Yeager enjoy some of the waterma grown there. When the track is not in use, during the summer, the centre, oval is used to grow, the sort of melons the girls are so hungrily devouringi