ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS IN PICTURES
'STAIR W AY TO HEAVEN’ — Blooming azalpas outline the nearly 500-year-old
"Spanish Steps,” sometimes called the ‘^Stairway to Heaven,” leading to Trinity Church, Rome, Italy.
NEW P I N - U P-This fan
shaped scarf pin is designed to
hold the scarf in place without
leaving pin marks. The pin is
made with a loop through which
scarf ends are pulled.
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ON GUARD — Lea Barrett, pretty 18-year-old lifeguard at
Adams Park swimming pool in Atlanta, Ga., has only a knowing
smile for^the “pleas” of young mermen to ‘'Save me! save me!”
—him ii M * a .
OWL-f YES- Five downy white owlets hiss resentment at
intrusion upon privacy of their nest in empty farm silo near
Wakarusa, Ind. The^ _\>ere found by farm’s pK^yective buyers.
GERMAN BEAUT Y—Helga Severin, 26-year-old model
from Hannover, was named "Miss Niedersachscn”(Lower Saxony)
and will be one of 13 girls competing for ‘'Alisa Germany” title.
MIGHT INTO DAY — An hour-long fireworks display iights up the night as Taris cciC'
bratcs 3,000th birthday. Hotel des Invalides, in background, can be seen through fireworks.
THE CHANCING SCENE — An
frey's Hook Lighthouse on New York City side
before 30-ycar-oid structure is auctioned by U.
artist paints Jet
of Hudson Kivcr
S. Coast Guard.
HEADY — Marie-Madelin
Caduc, 18, 1951 beauty queen of
French provinces, wears head
dress of Vendee, during “French
Week” celebration on English
Channel Is'« of Jersey.
DOCCY LIVING — Snowball, a five-year-old pooch
cvneii by Frank J. Smith of Barlonville, 111., looks watchfully at
i. group of tiny goslings of which she has become “godmother.
MATCHING MATCHSTICKS — Hobbyist G. w.
Sweetman of San Francisco uses crayon-pencil to put finishing
touches to reproduction of Texas Alamo, made of matchsticks.
FAIR WARNINC — Structure, publicizing the use of
aluminum in building, is one of the features of first postwar Ger
man construction fair* “Constructa,” which opened in Han:;- vcr.
POCKET EDITIO N— Pequito, SV^-months-oId Mexican
Chihuahua, with fighting weight of five ounces, is comfortable in
shirt pocket of bis master, L. R. Handran, Washington, D. C.
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MAKING THE GRADE — A six-room house Is inched up one of Los Angeles’ steepest
grades with use of winches by two trucks, each anchored to manholes and telephone poles
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ON TAP AT GltE'AT SMOKY — “Unto These
Hills," drama of Cherokee Indians' removal from North Carolina
to Oklahoma, is played at Great Smoky National P6»'k, N. C.
OUT TO SETTLE BURNING QUESTION - Autos of yesteryear, 1911 Stod
dard-Dayton (left) and 1913 Stanley Steamer will race between Chicago and New York to settle
a burning question of grandfather’s day: Is steam power more efficient than gasoline engine?