THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JANUARY - 20, 1950.
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NEWSFRONTE
RABBIT ROYALTY-This Bttle girl receives a royal audience by the king of rabbits, Jeannot 1, and his queen af an exhibition in Paris, The show, called **Childhood, Youth and Family," featured various exhibits of family netivities and a toy show, und was held in the Grand Palace Exhibition Hall
WORM'S EYE VIEW-Spectators appear to be specks on the horizon as they view the U.S. Air Force's glant B-36 bomber at the Los Angeles International Airport. Behind the crowd watching the bomber is a B-50.
An estimated 200,000 spectators turned out for the event, sponsored by the Junior Chamber of
Commerce.
MIXED RELATIONS-Larry MeKowen, of St Joseph, Missouri, holds a six-week-old English duck in one hand and the White King pigeon that batched it in the other. After the mother duck was killed by chickens, McKowen put three eggs under the pigeon; which hatched two of them. Only this one survived.
HOLY YEAR SCARF—An Italian girl in Rome models
one of the religious souvenir scarfs which
available there during Holy Year.
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FOR A WORTHY CAUSE-Danish soprano Lis Broge, in New York to make her American concert debut, and Micky Gundmann, also from Denmark, receive some blocks of anti-TB seal stamps from comedian Jimmy Durante, who is definitely not from Denmark. All three campaigned hurd for a worthy cause.
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HAPPY TO MEET YOU-Gail Bassett, aged three, introduces her pooch, Happy, to actress Rhonda Fleming on a Hollywood film set. Gall is the daughter of a studio gateman, and Miss Fleming and her co-stars, John Payne and Dennis O'Keefe, want to sponsor the child's screen career,
READY TO GO-Warming up for the Bicycle Derby in New York are these women pedal' pushers who are competing in a programme of sprints on an indoor track. From left to right are-Ida and Paute Renucci from Italy, Monique Lassere of France, and Margare' Sutcliff from England.
GLAMOUR ON THE HOOF-Colonel, one of four Clydesdale horses in a Chicago dairy farm's six-horse hitch, gets a pedicure from model Judy Kelley. Assistant driver Jack Newell looks on as Judy applies the beautifiers to the hoof.
GOING SCOTCH-Holly- wood actress Patricia Neul tries something new for an evening gown. The material is a striking blue, green and yellow plaid sent from Scotland by nweaver who suggested the idea to her.
SEEING THE BIG TOWN-Midshipmen of the French Navy look out over New York from the top of the Empire State Building. The future naval officers were from the French cruiser Jeanne D'Arc, which is taking them on its annual training cruise.
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