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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

Convicts' champion
2
Charles Allen WARD, Crime and criminals
Speaking of pictures
12
Jeanne CRAIN
Picture of the week
34
Trygve Lie (Norwegian United Nations secretary-general.); 1896-1968
War talk: why not a united Europe?
34
European federation, United States (Foreign relations)
Shooting in Jaffa
36
Jews (Palestine, Resistance movement), Jaffa (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Parking problem
73
Automobile parking
French tapestries
80
Tapestry
Flag is born
87
Ben Hecht; 1894-1964
English lesson
91
Louis Jourdan
Iowa centennial
99
Iowa

Surprised champion
38
Boxing
U.S. youth pushes itself into the news
40
Political candidates
Drucie Snyder
41
Edith Cook SNYDER
Wallace gets fired
42
Henry Agard Wallace; 1888-1965
Moslem prayers
47
Muslims (India)
Earthworm
53
Earthworms
Arthur Murray
61
Arthur Murray; 1895-1991, Dance (Study and teaching)
Stone City
104
Grant Wood (American painter.); 1891-1942, STONE CITY (Iowa)
Intelligence: key to defense
108
United States Office of Strategic Services, World War, 1939-1945 (United States)
Antarctic whaling
123
Whaling
Indian hostesses
129
Airlines (India)
Life goes to Shorty's nightclub in Berlin
134
Nightclubs
How not to cure hiccups
138
Hiccups

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