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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1949.

WORLD NEWS IN PICTURES

ALL HANDS ALOFT-Miriam Birkeland shouts a few orders to her nautically minded friends at a Long Beach, California, get-together of foreign and American airline hostesses. The girls are having the time of their lives as delegates to the tenth annual Wings Over the Nation convention,

GROUNDED FOR THE PRESENT-Airline hostesses Mary Jessup of Florence, Alabama; Nancy Fowler of River Forest, Illinois, and Louise Priestley of Martin, Tennessee, spend a few idle minutes rolling snowballs at LaGuardia Airport in New York. It's the first real snow of the winter for the girls, and they just had to get out and try their hand at the ancient art of tossing snowballs.

-FLOWING CREATION— A dramatic, brick-red jersey scarf, shown in Parls, ties beneath a collar of herole pro portions, distinguishing Jeanne LaFaurie's casual coat for travel or in- formal town wear. The coat and hat are of yellow sand velours.

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ALTAR CLOTH-Carmen Amin, of the Swedish Consulate in New York, holds an altar cloth embrol- dered by Sweden's King Gustav V for the Bethlehem Lutheran Church In Brooklyn. The 90-year-old monarch made the cloth at the request of the church's pastor for its 75th anniversary next spring.

LUCKY BREAK-A man was saved by inches from possible death under this snapped light standard on Bulkley Boulevard in Cleveland, Ohio, recently.. Another driver crashed into his car, according to police, and then bounced

against the light standard, snapping it off at its base.

RUSSIAN TRAINER-Anna Durova, daughter of a famous animal trainer, sends her cat, "Ryzhik," through balanced paces at the Duroy menagerie and museum in Moscow.

UNRULY HUSKY-This mild looking pup is about to be inoculated agalrist dis temper in Sun Valley, Idaho. Though too young to pull a sled this year, he nevertheless must be inoculated, and next year will be on someone's first team at the popular winter resort.

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SAFETY TAPE-This trolley bus in New York in experimenting with 'now'. reflective tape to light up the corners of the vehicle. Used on some U.S. high- ways, the tape comes in rolls of plastic sheeting in which are embedded millions of microscople glass beads. The strips reflect approaching, headlights,

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British hat manufacturers say that their experts have discovered that eight out of ton young women profor their mon to wear hats. 4

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