THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1949.⠀⠀
PICTORIAL
NEWSFRONTE
BRITISH AIR GIANT-Soaring over the English countryside near Bristol is the glant Bristol Brabazon, the largest civil land plane in the world. ́ With 'a wing- span of 230 feet and length of 175 feet, the plane weighs 180 tons and can carry
100 passengers.
POWERFUL MICROSCOPE®
Claude Magnan,, loft, stands beside his microscope in Paris which will magnify objects one million times when completed- ho hopes. It will utilise the spray-off of atomic particles known as protons.
FOR A ROYAL VISIT-American sailors polish guns and sweep the deck of the US. heavy cruiser Columbus In preparation for a visit by King George VI at Plymouth. The vessel, flagship of Admiral R. L. Connolly, Commanding Ameri- can Naval Forces in the East Atlantic and the Mediterranean, had the King aboaril as guest for three hours.
VISITS SPANISH DICTATOR - Senator Pat Mac- Carran of Nevada visits Spato's Generalissimo Franco at the El Pardo. Palace in Madrid. The Senator has defended the handing of money to Spain in the US. Senate.
SWING SHIFT-During an all-out, one-day rubble-cleaning programme in Munich, a Bavarian brass band footled while 10,000 men and women shovelled. Occupation authorities sent trucks, heavy equipment and even some soldiers to help the clearing away of more than 700,000 cubic feet of war-time rubble.
Although
IMPORTED there are plenty of pretty chorus girls in Chicago, the windy city' just couldn't resist Im porting blonde Charlotte Bergmeir from St Louis.
IMPORTANT This pretty bevy, in Pasadena, Cali- fornia, represents the junior colleges which are lending contenders for the Junior college championship game in Pasadena's Rose Bowl They are, left to right, Janita Habeck of East Los Angeles, Mitzl Miller of Pasadena, and Priscilla Orman of Santa Ana,
PULLING HER OFF-Two tugs struggle to free the explosive-laden chip, Green Mountain State,, which ran nground at the mouth of the Mississippi River, near New Orleans. The ship was outbound with a cargo of ammonium nitrate, the substance that caus d. the Texas City blast in 1997, but shs, was freed
quccessfully and encountered no dienster.
GOOD
SPORE — The smart navy - and - while casual, with knit bodies and crepe skirt, modelled by Mary Brown at Miami Beach, Florida, has a simple shawl collar and narrow entfed sleeves
ALL IN A DAY'S WORK--Buzzle, a pet cocker
Shaw; cf Phoenix, Arizona, yawns with boredom The mother pig gave birth to 11 piggles and, because she nine of them, Buzzle came to the rescue; Th wo piglets
and Sun!