1950-01-17 — Page 11

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1950.

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PRACTICE FOR EAST-WEST GAME-With the San Francisco city bull in the background, early arrivals ad the East All Stan squad krk off in the opening practice session. They were warming up for their game

with the West All Stars.

PUT 'EM UP-Le Beatrice Jane Johnson, aged two, uf Brumley. England, is ready to take on anyone who laughs at the costume she wore to a children's party over the Christ- mas holidays.

AT LONG LAST~~The central tower of the Cathedral in Worcester, England, is undergoing repair for the first time since the Restoration in the 17th century. It was found necessary to stop ringing the bells during repairs to the pinnacles because the vibration made the pinnacles unsafe. There are 12 ringing beils and four half-tone bells.

GETTING

Perkins, ACQUAINTED R. Marlin director of the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, welcomes two new babies. At left is a one-year-old orangutan. Ling-Wong, who has become very friendly with Heinle I, the chimpanzee on the right. They are happy additions to the menagerie.

PREPARING FOR CRISIS-When n wildent strike cut down the electricity supply in London, these troops moved into the Brimsdown power station at Enfield. They joined naval ratings who took over the work of about 600 strikers, More than 28 plants were involved.

NEW ARRIVALS-As they reach New York together with 1,000 immigrants of all nationalities, Ida Gruenwald and Alexander Kuechel study the "new world". The young couple met in a DP camp in Ger- many, and plan to be wed in the US.

READY TO GO-Marcel Bardiaux, 30, is prepared to start his world cruise aboard his homemade sailboat from Paris. He expects to cross the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans, and return home in 1952. In the background is the Alexandre III Bridge over the River Seine.

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WITH THE CITY'S APPROVAL-David Guinn, 63, is a member of New York's Polar Bear Club, and he is also aware of the city's water shortage. However, he wanted a bath, so he went down to Coney Island and plunged into the surf. The.

warm weather made the water bearable.

CREEPING UP While the people of London have been ordered to move their television aerials indoors because they are unsightly, the New York skyline is constantly changing. Here, only a block from the Yankee Stadium at 161st Street and Gerard Avenue in the Bronx, the view shows the new look of the city's skyline.

THEY'RE RIGHT-During a convention of the American League for Hypnotists, the member voted film actress Gene Tierney, shown here at her Hollywood. home, as the "girl they would like to be hypnotised by.