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LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.
 

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Contents

One-legged jitterbug
10
Jack JOYCE
We kids elected a congressman
14
Gene WORLEY, Political campaigns
War poems
20
World War, 1939-1945 (Poetry)
Germany, Italy and Japan brandish a united sword in threat against U.S.
27
Tripartite Pact (1940)
Portrait
27
Joachim von Ribbentrop; 1893-1946

Hong Kong's men of many races hold ragged end of Britain's famed thin red line of empire in the Far East
28
Hong Kong
Class A naval base guards the white man's stake in east Asia
30
Singapore
Wendell Willkie states his stand
32
Wendell Lewis Willkie; 1892-1944
Willkie carries his crusade to the West
34
Wendell Lewis Willkie; 1892-1944
Geriatrics
45
Old age, New York (N.Y.) (Hospitals)
Famous press agent lives up to reputation for spotting beauties
50
Stephen Jerome HANNAGAN, Brewster) (Mrs Stephen Jerome Hannagan HANNAGAN
Boys and girls together
57
Musicals, revues, etc (Reviews, Single works)
Bombing of London
85
London (England) (History, Bombardments, 1939-1945)
Button, button, everyone has button as a campaign fad sweeps country
96
Campaign buttons, posters, etc
Plan for union
98
United States (Foreign relations, Great Britain), Great Britain (Foreign relations, United States)
War moves into Africa
104
World War, 1939-1945 (Campaigns and battles, Africa), Africa
Camp Perry
111
NATIONAL rifle and pistol matches, Camp Perry (Ohio)
New plane is nearly foolproof
114
Airplanes
Tobacco harvest in East Windsor, Conn
116
Tobacco

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