1949-11-29 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1949.

PICTORIAL

NEWSFRONT

SUB IN TEST EXERCISES USS Conger, the U.S. Navy's most modern submarine, fires a torpedo, left, during tests at the Philadelphla Naval Base. The submarine is 312 feet long, with a displacement equal to that of a destroyer.

NEW HONOUR – Queen Elizabeth chats with Sir William Gillatt after she was admitted to Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Obstetricans and Gynaecologists in London. Sir William has retired as president of the college.

RETIRING WINNER-Stymic, the horse that was claimed for U.S.$1,500 and later won almost one million dollars, stands in the race track in Jamaica, New York, after making his last public appearance. Stymie has retired after being the greatest money-winning horse of all time. The groom holds reins as the horse of the people, an ordinary plater who rose to fame and fortune, takes his

last bow.

HAPPY BRIDE — Greeting the crowd outside the Church of the Good Shepherd in Beverly Hills, Call- fornia, after their wedding are film actress Jane Powell, 20, and Geary Stephen, 26. They met when he taught her how to ice-skate for a film.

HE CAN HAVE UNION CARD-Bishop Michael J. Ready, of Columbus, Ohio, did such a good job of laying the cornerstone for three new buildings that the masons' union gave him a union card, The buildings were a rectory, a chancery, and a home for the bishop.

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BALANCED — Starlet Betty Underwood, in Hollywood, has been chosen by the American Institute of Accountants as the actress with tho "best balanced figure.”

HE HAS THE GREEN THUMB-Ho's almost 100, but Dave Bringle still works in the garden in Oswego, Kansas, from which à granddaughter canned 100 quarts of vegetables last summer. Bringle will soon attend his son's golden wedding.

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LEFT OUTSIDE-Andrew's kiss is a little wet and tickling on two-year-old Faith Hart, but it was some- what consoling. Both were walling outside the church in London, England, where the French pondlo's mistress was being married. Andrew was "best dog" at the show and the little girl was just an onlooker.

BOBBY-SOXERS' MOL -When actor John Derek attended the opening of hls new film in New York, he was mobbed by admiring bobby-soxers. Derek has won a mag- zine poll as the year's most popular newcomer.

HE'S NOT ON CIVIL SERVICE—Fuski, a dog of various ancestry, accompanies postman Joseph Kruczec on his daily delivery route In Chicago, Illinois. Each morning Fuski leaves his own home and walts at the pick-up box for the postman, and he stays on the job all day