Around the World News in Pictures
REPAIRING PACIFIC CABL E—The Guam-Midway cable comes In for inspection over
the forward deck of the U. S. Army transport service ship “The Restorer” as technicians start repair
^ ing the 2,670-mile cable, severed by the Navy a week before the battle of Midway.
NEW STYLE LIGHTNING — Lockheed Lightning P-38Ls, latest model of the twin-boom
- fighter with added refinements, await delivery to the Allied fighting fronts..
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MANHATTAN SKIER —A skier gets underway in New*
York’s Central Park. In background are big apartment buildings.
TWO PRODIGIES — Violinist Yehudi Menuhin prepares
to play a duet with 16-year-old pianist Leon Fleisher, acclaimed
as a musical find, at Menuhin’s New York home. Both are from
San Francisco, and both were prodigies.
WOMAN DIS P A T C H E R — Dorothy Spears, flight dls* 1
patcher at the Aeronca factory at Middletown, Ohio, checks the
stabilizer on a recovered plane. Her duties include clocking plants i
in and out and checking fliers' log bookky _]