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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1948.

WORLD NEWS IN PICTURES

ACTRESS TURNS ARTIST-Gypsy Rose Lee, strip-teaser, writer and amateur artist, points to her painting, “Adam and Eve," which she contributed to a New

York charity exhibition.

CHIEF-Lt.-Gen. Curils

E. Lemay, aged 42, as chief of the U.S. General Strategic Air Command, is new head of America's long rangè bombing fleets. He directed B-29 raids on Japan from China and Saipan.

X-RAY MICROSCOPE-Dr Paul H. Kirkpatrick uses an eyepiece to focus the X-ray microscope he developed at Stanford University, The eyepiece is replaced by film in operation. So far, magnification has reached far more than that of the optical microscope. The new device also permits study of living subjects. This is in contrast to the electronie microscope, in which objects to be studied must be placed In a vacuum after they are dead. The X-rays are focused by dime-size metallic mirrors.

ROUGH

PASSAGE A huge wave batters the liner America during its Atlantic crossing as an alert photo- grapher records the scene. One wave struck the ship's bridge, from where this picture was taken, breaking three windows in the wheelhouse. The captain, John W. Anderson, told of the hectic crossing after the battered ship docked in New York. The heavy storm delayed the vessel's arrival for 24 hours.

GRACEFUL-Emma. Kulluer of Genoa, Italy, rehearses for her rolo in a Pompeii ballet at the Rome Opera House.

CHAMPION This Labrador retriever, Champion Stowaway at Deer Creek, was judged best in show, and best American-bred dog at the South, Dakota Kennel Club show at Sloux Falls. The two-year-old, owned by Gerald Livingston of New York, has won five best-in-show honours.

EXPELLED FROM HUNGARY-Paul Ruedemann, left, and George Bannantine arrive in New York. Executives of the Hungarian plant of the Standard Oll Company, they were, according to their stories, forced to sign confessions of sabotage against their own company. Ruedemann said the Hungarians took the

land, worth about US$25,000,000.

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HAPPY HIPPOPOTAMUSES “One more rehearsal and we'll be ready for the concert hall," grunts Otto, cavern-jawed hippopotamus at the Whipsnade Zoo. His mate, Mimi, right, opens just as wide to make it n duaf-Otto can make him.. self heard throughout. the g00, even, with a mouthful of hay.

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