THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 1950.
PICTORIAL
NEWSFRONTE
HEADING OUT TO SEA-Tho New South Wales sloop "Peer Gynt" sails against 14 other yachts in the annual 40-mile ocean yacht race from Sydney to Hobart.
CATCHING BREAKFAST-A visitor to Haliburton, Canada, for a winter sports holiday, takes time out to catch a whitefish through the ice of a lake in the Ontario highlands.
SKIING WITHOUT SNOW-Hannes Schneider, instructor, 'gives a snowless skl lesson to winter visitors on a bare slope at North Conway, New Hampshire, In
the rear is the Cranmore skimobile.
PAY AS YOU DRIVE Mildred Thrawl of Chiengo demonstrates a coin meter for the ignition system by The equivalent of six which a buyer pays for a car.
US. quarters a day keeps. it running.
NEW SENATOR-- William Bearun, a U.S. Democrat, is new Senator from Connec- ticut, succeeding Raymond E. Baldwin. who resigned to become Justice of State Supreme
Court.
BOXER AND BUTCHER—Roland La Starza (right), 22-year-old New York heavyweight boxer, undefeated in 37 matches, helps his father in his grocery-butcher shop between houts.
KANSAS SENATOR- Harry Darby. 54, Republican national committeeman for five years, is the new U.S. Senator from Kansas, Alling
unexpired the term of the late Clyde M. Reed.
PRESIDENT AND
Soekarno
ENVOY-President (left) of the United States of Indonesia, chats with Merle Cochran, U.S. Ambassador, at a reception in Jakarta (Batavia).
INDIA'S PAVLOVA- Mirabai, Hindu dancer, popularly known 13. *India's Pavlova," recently made her first -appearance in London at the Imperial Institute Theatre.
NO SMOKE IN HIS EYES-Colby Clarke, tavern keeper of Kent, devised this holder to keep his long cigar from sagging and the smoke from his eyes while playing cards.
FROM SEAMAN TO ACADEMY-Harry Martinsson, author and former seaman, is installed as a member of the Royal Swedish Academy, which selects Nobel Prize winners, Left to right: Anders Osterling, Earl Marshal Birger Ekeberg, Martinsson and Sigfried Slwertz.
TENOR'S TRIBUTE— Eugene Conley, who
sang tenor in Bellini's opera, "I Puritan!" at La Scala, Milan, dusis a statue of the composer , before
the opening night.
FIELD DOGS IN TESTS-Willam Jones (left); of Suffolk, Virgina, nolas "rust 'Special Delivery" and George Rogers, of Mount Holly, New Jersey, holds his wife's entry, "Medec" at the trials of the Field Trial Club of Pinehurst, North Carolina, as Judges and gallery (rear) prepare to follow the test,
TROPICAL SWIMMING HOLE-The pool of the Caribe Hilton Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico, was blasted out of coral rock. It is filled with sea-water which is changed every four hours.
HOME OF ISRAEL PARLIAMENT—This wing of the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem will be the temporary home of the Israel Parliament (Knesseth) until a new building is erected.
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