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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

Hot winds in Argentina
17
Legislative bodies (Argentina), Santiago del Estero (Argentina)
U.S. citizens look at Europe
31
Americans (Europe), Congressmen
Iowa mission
34
Farmers
State of the South
36
Southern States (Economic conditions)
Dead Jewish baby
38
Refugees
Folk singers
63
American folk songs, North Carolina (Social life and customs)
Royal bridegroom
69
Great Britain (Royal family)
Study in consorts
71
consort of Victoria ALBERT (queen of Great Britain), duke of Edinburgh PHILIP
Lipstick
87
Cosmetics
Weight lifters
91
Weight lifting

Howard Hawks's new find
102
Katherine CASSIDY
Command decision
107
William Wister Haines; 1908-1989
Cruise of the Kon-Tiki
113
Thor Heyerdahl, Kon-Tiki Expedition (1947)
Nazis' atomic secrets
123
Werner Heisenberg; 1901-1976, Nuclear research, Scientists, German
Grenadine etching
137
Robert Chester Ruark; 1915-1965
Life visits the Bureau of weights and measures
150
International Bureau of Weights and Measures

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