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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1947-12-25, Page 5T MEET `GOLDIE' Something new in bathing suits Is "Goldie," worn by Janis Paige in her forthcoming film, Wall- flower. "Goldie" is made of gold metallic lace, so filmy that when dropped on the floor, it lands with about 1/1000th of the noise of a pin falling on a six -inch -thick rug. HAPPY LANDING Happy tq be a future niece of ,Un- cle -Sam is Manly Duffhaus, who survived four years in a German congentration camp. The French youitgster is pictured as, hugging her -big doll, she recently arrived in T'ew York. She and her parents will be cared, for by Catholic Com- mittee for Refugees until they find a home. POLAND'S BOSS Boleslaw Bierut, new pre:.:' ~t of Poland's provisional gover'-' *, speaks et opening session of Polis* diet. U.S. and others have charged section in Russian -dominated country wasn't all it should have been, TAKES 'LAST JOURNEY' TO MUSIC HE LOVED When Louis Szabo, 74 -year-old Hungarian violinist, died in Chicago recently, he was almost penniless, but rich in friends. Fifty years ago he was a gifted member of the Budapest Symphony Orchestra, as composer and talented young conductor. Going blind at 26, he went to Chicago, where his gypsy music • and warm personality won him hundreds of friends in bars and restaurants in a honky-tonk district, They chipped in to pay for his funeral and nearly a score of violinists headed the procession, playing "I Am Leaving on My Last Journey" and Szabo's favorite gypsy airs, • "BETTY JO" COMPLETES NON-STOP HOP Lt. Cola Robert E. Thacker rests on'tire wings of the twin Mustang fighter plane, "Betty Jo,'' named for his wife, after landing at LaGuardia Field, New York, With only 60 gallons` of gasoline left. He had flown from Honolulu in 14 hours, 23 minutes. It was the first such non-stop .flight. Gathered around the plane are his wife, reporters and photographers. - .09 'TEST TUBE' PROMOTES TRAFFIC SAFETY The "safety parade" through testing stations, Third earls having brakes tested, • Hydraulic hoist aids test of . play hi steering gear. Wheel ldngpina, headlight tester measures tie rod and steering joints are allowed a half inch. candlepower, light direction. Realizing that worn old cars now present one of the worst traffic hazards, Evanston, Ill., is solving the problem with a block -long, drive-in, drive -out "test . tube," This is a 40 by 200 -foot Quonset hut, artuipped as a vehicle testing laboratory and mannc d by seven police mechanics. By ordinance, every blte of Evanston's 16,000 automobiles must periodic ally be driven through and run the gauntlet of six testing stations. If a car does not pass the tests, owner must drive it to a repair shop and return for Vs -examination within 10 days, Pictures above show examinations in progress. This Chow s a Retriever Mr. Wong, the caddying chow, has kept his nose to the fairway (and the rough) for 2000 miles of golfing for his owner, Wayne Edwards, Del Monte, Calif., high school history teacher. The chow,, 4', years old, has been caddying for three and a half years. U.S. GRABS REGIMENT'S RICH BOOTY Pictured here is some of the 3800,000 worth, of Hohenzollern silver- ware the United States War Department took into custody in Washington after it was brought into Baltimore as war booty by the. 175th Army Regiment. The seven tons of precious loot, captured at the Elbe in Germany, will go to the National Gallery until the War Department decides whether the regiment can keep it as a trophy. SHED •a , GAME Mrs. F. W. Kincaid, of Memphis, Tenn., owns a hen that is very fussy about where it lays its eggs. The hen pecks at the front door every day at egg -laying time. When admitted, it makes for a softly upholstered armchair, often taking doily from the chair back to make a "nest," Then Mrs. 1-ien squats and produces. Top picture shows Mrs. Kincaid petting the chicken as it sets; lower photo shows hen with .its contribution to the Kincaid larder.