Around the World News in Pictures
NICE — Northwestern co-ed Kay Christopher, 21, was selected
“Miss Photo Flash of 1945” by Chicago photographers.
laN LIBERTY'S TORC H—High In the torch of the Statue
of liberty in New York harbor Samuel G. Hibben, Westinghouse
director of applied lighting, holds a 400-watt mercury vapor light
he will use to help relight torch.
U.S.A. Army Signal Corps Photo
SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA—Sgt. Henry Yachel, of Los
Angeles, “rang the cash register” for the first time when Col. Howard
C. Brenizer, New York City, made the initial purchase at his Post Ex
change unit here. Officers of the Special Services Division say that
approximately 11,000 PX units are in operation at home and overseas,
Most popular items are American-made “smokes”, ^chndies, * soft
drinks, beer, toothpaste and shaving soap. Much American-made beer
goes overseas in a lightweight non-returnable bottle that will become
available to civilians in post-war years. Many of the larger Po?t Ex
change unita resemble a well-stocked, small-town department store.'
GOOD ENOUCH TO EAT— At an outdoor table four 'ounsr ladies model “dessert bats
i'lspiri'd by a movie number. Left to right, Nan Bennett, \\ea»ii... ““‘.non pie ; Army BaiL.ua,^ s» raw
berrv ‘hnrlcuke '■ I*.it l>cdil'tiir. “eh *• a<id tS. »y .acs, pistachio puiiait*
FILIPINOS INSPECT PBY—Filipinos ride out in their outrlrrer canoes to look over a
Navy PBY after It landed on a Philippine harbor with rescued guerrillas.
,N THE ‘SHADE* _ Be*We shell-torn tree stumps. Marine veterans of the
Third amphibious corps pause for a smoke only a few hundred yards from the beach at Okinawa.