THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1949.
PICTORIAL
NEWSFRONT
AS GOOD AS REAL-Mrs Raye Donnelly Williams, upon winning a beauty contest in Colorado Springs, Colorado, sat on the lap of one of the judges. Ho la Chief White Horse of the Eatem Mucheo Tribe. But his resemblance to reality ends right there because this chief is just another wooden Indian.
DAILY ROUTINE-Mrs Elizabeth Norton, 65, of New York, gives Thomas his daily 8:15 a.m, row Ilver with pieces of stur- geon. Thomas, a walf, waits every morning for these tidbits.
TAKE THEM OFFI Danny "Boy" Doran, right, of Ivesdale, Illinois, shows his contempt for the kills that Council Taylor wears upon their return to New York from Europe. Taylor was merely collecting a $10 bet, but that made no difference to Danny.
IT'LL SAVE LOTS OF TIME An automatic, passenger-operated ticket vending machine, first of its kind to he used in New York City, will be placed in experimental operation soon. Grace Schaefer demon- strates operation of the change-making device.
·FROM THE PHILIPPINES-The Rov. Francis Diono,
S. J., left, greets Dr Genaro Vidal In New York. From
the Philippines, Dr Vidal brought a statue of Our Lady
7 Mary, Mediatrix of All Graces, a replica of the original
in Lepa Batangn where the Virgin Mary is said to have
made 'an appearance last year,
U.S. NAVY'S LATEST "SITTING DUCK" No more slow-moving "sitting ducks" for the U.S. Navy anti-aircraft gunners. They'll sharpen their shooting eyes on the Martin KDM-I-(above), ultra-high-speed drone, as it dashes across the sky In keeping with latest aircraft design.- The ram-jet engine, sometimes called the "stovepipe," has no moving parts. Its thrust depends on the difference in
momentum between the entering air and the exhaust gases.
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TRYING HIS HAND-Actor Henry Wilcoxon, whose paintings will be exhibited in Los Angeles this autumn,
takes brushes and palette in hand on a nearby hill as Joan Woodbury falls into a pose.
A MUST-Jone Feder- son, "Misa California of 1949, models an outill in Berkeley, California, which she selected as a must for her college wardrobe. The skirt has an exaggerated kick- pleat and the cont is boxy and short.
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CHAIRBORNE This is Corporal Hank," dachshund mascot of San Francisco's 349th Troop Currier Wing (Reserve), at Hamilton Air Force Base, California. Things haven't really gone to the dogs in that outfit, and this corporal doesn't
use the typewriter, either, but he does give that impression.
IN THE NICK OF TIME—When a L. L. R. R. train,
westbound to New York City, hit this automobile near Hicksville, NY, the car was carried 1,000 feet. Two occupants of the car jumped out just in time to escape certain death.
WE'LL MEET AGAIN IN GAY PARIS--Seven-month-old Kurtis Green, right, bids goodbye to Ted Spicer, ten months, prior to leaving New York for Paris, France, to join his father. The two tots have been great friends, but the time
had come to part and say farew~*~*