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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, why cartooning is easy
12
Jefferson MACHAMER, Caricatures and cartoons
Oldest human bones arrive in the U.S.
27
Gustav Heinrich Ralph von KOENIGSWALD, Man, Prehistoric
Shall we have a depression?
32
United States (Economic conditions)
Picture of the week
33
Harry S. Truman; 1884-1972
No. 1 fight of the year: Zale makes best defense since Ketchel
34
Boxing
Once aboard the Reluctant
71
Once aboard the Reluctant
71
World War, 1939-1945 (Fiction)
710-pound youth
81
Robert Earl HUGHES, Obesity
Japanese miniature trees
87
Trees, Dwarf
Rio Grande raiders
93
Motion picture reviews (Single works)

Ambassador Stuart in China
36
John Leighton Stuart; 1876-1962
Crowded schools
38
Colleges and universities, PUBLIC relationsUnited States
Home from Bikini
46
Radiation (Physiological effects)
Critics versus the playwrights
49
Drama critics and criticism, Dramatists
Personality tests
55
Psychological tests
Game bird shooting
63
Ogden Minton PLEISSNER, Birds in art
Horse opera
93
Motion pictures (Westerns)
Taft and Vandenberg
102
Robert A. Taft (American senator.); 1917-1993, Arthur H. Vandenberg (American senator.); 1884-1951, Republican Party (U.S.)
Blue skies
116
Motion picture reviews (Single works)
Life visits a country school of photography
126
Photography (Study and teaching)
Fun at the piano
130
Henry SCOTT, Piano music

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