1949-10-28 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1949.

PICTORIAL

NEWSFRONT

RÕUGHNECKS-You wouldn't bellevo that these tough looking guys were incubator babies a year ago in Houston, Texas. They are twins, and both weighed four pounds, nine ounces at birth. Now they're husky chaps of almost 23 pounds apiece, and they look it.

DESTRUCTIVE FLAMES-Roaring flames swept gasoline tanks at an oil company in Flint, Michigan, when a trailer tank containing 5,000 gallons exploded. Flames were visible for ten miles and one man was seriously barned.

WAISTLINE MEETS DEADLINE-According to Johnny Welsmuller's present movie contract, he must report for a new picture weighing not more than 200 pounds or forfeit U.S.$1,000 for each pound over the mark. Trudy Marshall weighs the star in Hollywood, California, and finds he hits the mark at a mere 199.

NEW USE FOR THEM~These 68-feet-high "silos" are built in Derry, Pennsylvania, to hold 32 railway carloads of powdery flint, feldspar and kaolin, used in the making of porcelain insulators,

EXCITEMENT IN SPAIN-These matadora parade on their way to the official stand to bow before the arena president and honoured guests in Madrid. With the bullfighters are picadors on horses who excite the animal by prodding him, and banderilleros who thrust the barbed dart into the neck or shoulder of the bull during the fight.

COCONUT-MILK TIME-Following a rough workout, these University of Miami, Florida, football players take advantage of their surroundings and sip coconut milk.

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SHE'S BACK WITH US AGAIN-After absence

om the screen as a television star, Gloria Swanson is back in

n during which she ploneered

Hollywood and has just completed her first picture. She finds this black felt evening cap a flattering accent when covered with aigrette-type feathers.

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SWEATER GIRL' Marjorie Fletcher, in Cypress Gardens, Florida, was chosen that, slate's sweater girl from a fleld of 16 girls. She certainly couldn't look

Anféer."

CASTING GEN. BRADLEY Dr Suzanne Silvercruys, in Chaplin, Connecticut, makes a plaster cast of the portralt bust of Gen. Omar Bradley which she has completed. It is one of a series she is making for an exhibition this autumn

SKI-STAR ARRIVES Stein Eriksen, Nor- wegian skier, arrives in New York to begin a training period before taking part in the World: Championship ski -meet

next year."

THIS ONE DIDN'T GET AWAY-Barbara Stevenson, in Rio Vista, California, displays a 34-pound stripod bass taken from the nearby Sacramento River. That's

a prize-winning size for any fish.