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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

Speaking of pictures, a world without bars puts the courage of a Bronx gorilla to a cruel test
24
Gorillas
Aggressive China becomes a menace
31
China People's Liberation Army, Korean War, 1950-1953 (Chinese participation)
Elections and Asia
38
Dean Acheson; 1893-1971, United States (Foreign relations, Asia)
Lipizzan stallion begins a ballotade
39
Horses
Election brings rough weather for Truman
40
Elections
Mr Kramer has come up fast
76
Stanley Kramer; 1913-2001, Motion picture production and direction
Modern art by a photographer
78
Arthur S. SIEGEL, Photography, Artistic
Elegant apron
109
Aprons
Adagio on ice
115
Ice shows
Czech champ escapes to U.S.
117
Aja VRZANOVA

Shifting color line
49
Blacks
Farewell to a giant
51
Bernard Shaw (Irish dramatist.); 1856-1950
Colombia sees Nazis again
57
Fascism (Colombia)
Color on the air
60
Color television
M Auriol's hunt
67
Hunting (France), France (Social life and customs)
Cyrano de Bergerac
73
Motion picture reviews (Single works)
Nile
118
Egyptians, Africa (Indigenous peoples), Nile River
Omelets
131
Princeton University, Football
Queen who made good
137
William H. Attwood, Queen Frederika (consort of Paul I, King Of The Hellenes); 1917-1981, Paul I (King of the Hellenes); 1901-1964, Greece (Royal family)
Across the Atlantic by jeep
149
Ben Carlin, Voyages
Life spends a day with Somerset Maugham in New York
156
William Somerset Maugham; 1874-1965

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