THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JANUARY
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BACK TO THE OLD CHURCH-After almost years, New York's Liberty Bell is being returned to the belfry of the Middle Collegiate Church. It was originally placed there in the early 1730s, but in 1870 It was moved to another church, which is now being razed to make room for an office building. The bell tolled for the Declaration of Independence.
ANIMALS OF THE MONTH-That's the title given these handsome fellows at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago. They are lizards, known as rhinoceros iguana, and are natives of Haiti. Once plentiful until European invaders began to prize
them as food, they are now quite rare.
NEARING COMPLETION—The outer shell of the new Veterans' Administration Hospital in Albany, New York, is almost finished. The 14-storey building, of fireproof construction, will have a capacity of 1,000 beds when it is ready for the "
first patients.
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PERFECT LIKENESS—tomedian Jimmy Durante seems somewhat startled nt. the result us dancer Linda Danson carves his likeness in New York. Perhaps Jimmy's doubtful about that big nose that Linda is
working on so 'faithfully.
BIGGEST ARTIFICIAL STAR-Roanoke, Virginia, claims that this 109-foot high star, weighing 10,000 pounds, is the largest man-made star in the universe. Mounted on a 60,000-pound steel scaffold
on Min
Mountain, the star uses some 2,000 feet of neon tubing. It will be lighted every night of the year.
FOR EXHIBITION --- Salvador Dali, famous sur- realist, displays a "painting of the Madonna upon his arrival in New York, Dali showed the portrait to the Pope during a visit to Rome, and will exhibit it, with some others, in the United States.
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TELLING "ALL-Famed wrestler Frank Leavitt, better known as Man Mountain Dean, pecks at a type- writer in Norcross, Georgia, while writing his autobio- graphy. He claims that his bathrobe is 40 years old.
velvet and gold ⠀ lame, are Jacques Fath's pre- scription for glamorous lounging. The blouse can be removed to reveal a narrow beaded bra.
HOSPITAL ART EXHIBIT-At the second annual art exhibit of work by patients and personnel of the Memorial Cancer Centre in New York, two of the held right The in the hospital, and all patients were permitted to exhibil.
younger patients exhibit some timely crayon work, show was
CALL ME?-Actress Ava Gardrier pauses at a water cooler on a Hollywood movie set in response to somes body calling her name. This is the kind of pause that refreshes anyone lucky enough to be working near a
beauty like Ava.