1949-12-19 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, DECEMBER

19, 1949.

PICTORIAL

NEWSFRONT

IT'S A LIVING!-Beverly James (right), aged 19, earns her way through night school in Cleveland, Ohio, by teaching baton twirling. Here she gives last- minute instructions to Bess Morrison, one of her 40 pupils. Miss James plans to abandon the baton for elementary teaching after she is graduated.

RESCUED When the Spanish cargo steamer, Monte.Gurugu, sank during a heavy gale in the Bristol

Although it landed its passengers. Channel, this lifeboat went to the rescue from Ilfracombe, England.

safely, 12 men were lost when the ship went down.

YOUNG COMPETITOR-Denis Carr, 12, rehearses with George Allen before taking part in the National Brass Band Championship of Britain ~~contest in London. The Ind was the youngest of the 400 competitors in the event. Princess Elizabeth awarded prizes to the winners.

# polio SCHOOL AT HOME-Ann Louise, in wheelchair in New York, participates in a classroom She discusstun almost two miles from the school. was demonstrating the new school-to-home telephone of the communication displayed at the convention U.S. National Society for Crippled Children and Adults.

COIFFE

THE WINNEI-Lovely Simone Morin acts as referce for two canine contenders in a game of fisticuffs in Paris. It's all part of a dog act in a theatre. Here, the champ waits in his corner after knocking out his adversary.

Nu MORE-Actress Ava Gardner has just announced in Hollywood that she's fed up with cheese-cake posing for photos like this.

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FOR A RAINY DAY—When the U.S. steel strike really ended, Mr and Mrs Adolf Tarasevich and their son, But Adolf, Jr., staged a celebration in Pittsburgh. first of all, just to be on the safe side, they went out and stocked up on tinned goods."

FAMILY RIVALS Three-year-old Christian Quelvec looks condescendingly at his father who is seated in an 1893 Hugo in Paris. The junior hot-rod was built bý the lad's father, Henri, and is equipped with a 0.25 horsepower engine so Christian can drive at 20 miles per hour.

WHAT IS IT?—This odd fish was caught by George Green off the coast of Lower California. It has four legs at the rear of its body, with numerous holes the size of a lead pencil around its nose. A hook on its forehead is covered with sharp teeth and it fits into

a socket when not in use.

BAD BOY---This leopard escaped from his cage in the Buffalo Zoo by jdmping up 12 feet through a glass skylight Although he was trapped up there with no place to go, it took 102 hours before hunger and thirst drove him back Info his

cage. He looks a little annoyed about the whole thing,