1949-07-12 — Page 3

NEWS OF

FOR COOLING OFF-This is the Williamsburg, the Presidential yacht. Prest- dent Truman will use it for occasional long week ends while staying in Washington during the hot, humid summer weather. Cruising down the

Potomac on the Williamsburg will be a pleasure,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JULY 12, 1949,

THE DAY IN PICTURES

TO HELP THE BLIND-Mrs Alfred DeLfagre, wife of a theatrical producer in New York, is recording a book on a soundscriber, shown on table, as Vincent Trypuc, left, a blind GI student at Columbia University, Ilstens. Drama critic. John Mason Brown looks. on. They have joined the volunteer project of recording talking books for blind readers at the Library of the Bilnd.

HE'S ALONE NOW-This dog, in Freeport, Illinois, learned to go down the playground slide with the school children. School's out now, but he's lonesome and comes back to play by himself.

WINNING COSTUMES Carol Kent, left, and Ginny Radigan model two creations which won prizes at the ninth National Sewing Contest in New York. Carol models a dress made by Mrs W. H. Crichfield of Terro Haute, Indiana, while Ginny'displays a five-piece play suit designed by Ruth Meier of Detrolt.

CANCER

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TOP EARNER-Actress Betty Grable, one of the most famous "figures" In Hollywood; displays reasons why she was named the highest paid woman in the nation for the third successive year. The shapely star picked

up a pay of $208,000.

FROM INDIA

Harold Berkley listens to Olive Kallasam, 15-year-old violin prodigy, when she arrived in New York, from India. Berkley, violin editor of a musical publication, will instruct the girl who is said to be the first

Hindu girl to come to America for violin

HEADING FOR THE PARADE-Teddy. Schaefer, four, is costumed as a bunny for the third annual pet parade in La Grange, Illinois. He was pulled along by his sister Mary, nine, and brother Jimmy, 11, preferring to ride rather than hopping on his own.

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MERS-Savel Zimand (left), of the New York

City Cancer Committee, awards, trophies to Sister Martin Marie, whose science students at Cathedral. High School won first prize in the exhibit competition, and Nick Ampolo, 17, of Abraham Lincoln High School, Brooklyn, winner of the poster, conipetition. Deslymed to stimulate student Lerest in Cancer facts through contest drewin their science

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