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LIFE

Front Cover
16 Aug 1954
112 pages
Vol. 37, No. 7
ISSN 0024-3019
Published by Time Inc
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: painted balloons help student barbers
10
Barbers and barbershops
Greatest mile race in history
17
Roger Bannister; 1929-., John Landy; 1930-., Running
Assortment of eye catchers
22
Track and field athletics
Winning runner who couldn't win
24
James Henry PETERS, Running
Accomplishment in Canada
26
George Magoffin Humphrey; 1890-1970, Iron mines and mining (Canada)
Nursery goes backstage
48
Patty DESAUTELS, Married women (Employment)
Land of tranquility
52
Sotho (African people), Lesotho
15c a head
63
Hal WACKER, Children's art
15[cents] a head
63
Children's chores
Faith moves with worshipers
69
Mobile home parks, Chapels

Beginning in Washington
26
Income tax, Tax exemption
Chairborne ejection from airborne distress
27
Ejection seats (Airplanes)
Question of don de mando
28
Carlos Castillo Armas; 1914-1957, Communism (Guatemala), Guatemala (Politics and government)
Booze blazes in big blast
30
Explosions, Fires
Hilton takes Statler keys
33
Conrad N. Hilton; 1887-1979, Hilton Hotels Corp, HOTELS Statler company, Inc
Queen for a Knight
41
Goodwin Knight; 1896-1970, Mrs Goodwin Jess Knight KNIGHT, Weddings
Look, everyone, it's flying! teachers take course at Ohio's Miami university
44
Aviation (Study and teaching), Airplane models
104 rockets in one blast
74
Rockets
End of a piquant career
77
Colette (French novelist.); 1873-1954
Look of the thirties
84
Fashion
Rear window
88
Motion picture reviews (Single works)
I reached stars the hard way
92
Life goes to a party for bass divers
108
Diving

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