ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS IN PICTURES
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SIX YEARS AFTER BLAST — Sightseers view wares in souvenir shop near center
of 1945 A-bomb blast in Hiroshima, Japan. Shattered dome of Industry Hall is in background.*
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‘STARRY’ LOOK
Joy Godell wears 329-carat star
sapphire. “Star of India,” on her
forehead at National Jewelry
Fair in Chicago. Gem is valued
at more than $150,000.
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TRAILEtLAXER HONORED - Gertrude Ederlc.
first woman to swim the English Channel, receives a trophy mark
ing 25th anniversary of feat from New York City’s acting Council
^ President Joseph T. Sharkey. Miss Ederlc still swims at 44.
FORERUNNER OF AN ERA —Mrs. Percy Smock,
vrife ''f a Redwood City, Cai., typewriter collector, sits at key
I oard of a Fay -Sholes, first office machine, introduced about 1879.
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ONION SURPRISE—
Charles W. Anderson has raised
a lot of vegetables but hit the
jackpot with this live-pound
Italian bottle-type onion from
Glendale, Cal., garden.
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OLD PAPAL TRAIN MOVED — The 19th century chapel coach of Pope Pius IX’s
j train passes through street in Home enroute to Braschi Palace, new quarters of Rome Museum.
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T H E V A L U I O f T R A IHINC - A trainer at
Florida’s Marlucland spent two years teaching a young porpoise
to do such tricks as towing a surf raft with a passenger and her
pup (above). The trainer says it proves the intelligence of species.
WITHOUT A BATHING SUIT. TOO-Vera
• Marks of Frankfurt wears an evening gown before a Baden-Baden
audience after election as “Miss Germany 1951” over 14 finalists.
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NO STRANCER AT TABLE _ Bambt. found
motherless in mountains, is now house-broken and permits young- „
sters to feed him at D. E. Coffman hornet South Pasadena. CaL
SWANS DOWNED BY SLICK — These swans, covered with oil from a ship in Pool
;of London on Thames River, are being rounded up for a shampoo by son of Swan Master R. H. Turk.'
MUSICAL MOTIF S—Soprano Astrid Varnay displays
scarves created for Wagner festival at Bayreuth, Germany. Dec
orations depict characters and music from Wagner’s operas. ‘
TOP T A R _ Admiral Wil
liam M. Fechteler, 55, is the new
Chief of Naval Operations, suc
ceeding the late Admiral Forrest
F. Sherman who died on an
overseas mission. i
PRAYER BY PHONE
— Mrs Julia Shelhamer, 70
year-old Washington, D. C.
telephone evangelist, carries on
a telephone prayer with one of
the callers who keep line busy.
THE WALKING HAT STORE — straw hats ate
sold in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, by wandering street vendors who4
carry their stock on their arms. The hats sell for 50 cents ear'4-4 j
HEADY FOR PJlbCESSIN C — Whale caught off Chilean eoast and brought to Quin tag 4
is measured aud readied for the first cut. Cable and chain section will remove akin. "