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LIFE

Front Cover
10 Oct 1949
148 pages
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
16
George Platt Lynes; 1907-1955, Portrait photography
Portrait
16
Marianne Moore (American poet.); 1887-1972, Mary Garden (American opera singer.); 1874-1967
Life with Benchley
23
Robert Benchley; 1889-1945
Pennant wind-up leaves fans gasping
33
Baseball
Atomic control
38
Nuclear nonproliferation
Walking through fire
71
Textile fabrics, Fireproof
White-collar cowboy
77
Ranch life
Van Gogh
82
Vincent van Gogh; 1853-1890
Eight girls try out mixed emotions
95
Acting, Motion picture actors and actresses
House built like a sidewalk
103
Concrete houses

Darkness in Budapest
40
Laszlo Rajk, Communism (Hungary), Trials (Treason)
Steel shuts down
42
Strikes (Steel workers)
Can Russia deliver the bomb?
44
Atomic bombs
Biggest giveaway contest ever
51
William A. Blees, Avco Corp, Crosley Corporation
Exile's return
59
Henry M. Blackmer, Teapot Dome Scandal, 1921-1924
California grapes
63
Grape industry
Modern theater
67
Motion picture theaters, Los Angeles (Calif.) (Theater)
4-H fair
107
Fairs, 4-H clubs
Love that brute!
117
Paul DOUGLAS
Everybody does it
117
Motion picture reviews (Single works)
J. Robert Oppenheimer
120
J. Robert Oppenheimer; 1904-1967, Nuclear research
Life goes to the $2 window
140
Gambling
Prop man at large
146
Dave Garroway; 1913-1982, Television program reviews

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