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LIFE

Front Cover
4 Mar 1940
96 pages
Vol. 8, No. 10
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

Portrait
4
Otto N. FRANKFURTER
Accounts of trips to the Kremlin
10
Joseph Stalin; 1879-1953, Finland (Foreign relations, Soviet Union), Soviet Union (Foreign relations, Finland)
Priestess duels with a king cobra in ancient ritual
12
Cobras, Snake charmers
Dewey, the famous crime buster, makes triumphal tour through the West
19
Thomas Edmund Dewey; 1902-1971
Altmark and Cossack
24
Altmark case
No. 39, new Santa Fe fast freight runs Chicago-Kansas City overnight
50
Railroads (Trains, Freight service)
Spanish painter's big show tours the Nation
56
Pablo Picasso; 1881-1973
Biggest U.S. winter resort has biggest boom
60
Miami (Fla.), Miami Beach (Fla.)
Dr Ehrlich's magic bullet
74
Motion picture reviews (Single works)
Voyage of the Flint
78
City of Flint (Ship)

British heroes
28
World War, 1939-1945 (Great Britain)
Peking gives Wu Pei-fu, China's honest war lord, a fine princely funeral
30
WU P'EI-FU., Funeral rites and ceremonies, China (Social life and customs)
Smelt fishermen build city on ice, Lake Charlevoix
35
Smelts, Fishing, Winter
Angel
38
Maurice TILLET, Anthropometry, Pituitary body
Drunkard in Los Angeles breaks record as long-run hit
42
Melodrama, TEMPERANCEDrama
Voyage of the Flint
78
Joseph A. GAINARD
New Met star is a glamour girl
86
Jarmila Novotna; 1907-1994
Bonnie Baker and a baby voice make new hits out of old songs
88
Bonnie Baker
Town meeting with the people of Pelham in their 200-year-old hall
90
Town meetings, Pelham (Mass.)

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