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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

Texas booster
4
Boyce HOUSE, Texas
Speaking of pictures
24
Barbers and barbershops
U.S. faces up to a diplomatic crisis
31
UNITED STATESForeign relations/Anti-totalitarian measures
Threat to Greece
32
Reconstruction (1939-1951) (Greece)
Next problem for U.S: the straits
34
Bosporus (Turkey), Dardanelles Strait (Turkey)
Tokyo geisha
61
Geishas
Beginning or the end
75
Motion picture reviews (Single works)
Genetics
83
Genetics
City vs. country
95
Granville Hicks (American literary critic and novelist.); 1901-1982, Charles JACKSON, City and country
She is priestess of intellectual ballet
101
Martha Graham, Ballet

Our foreign policy crisis
38
George Catlett Marshall; 1880-1959, Council of Foreign Ministers, United States (Foreign relations)
Picture of the week: skiers turned village of Ste Rose into a swarm of stranded automobiles
38
STE ROSE, Canada
Justice, Hollywood style
40
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) (Courts)
I am not running for president
42
Presidential candidates (1948)
Truman charms Mexico
47
Harry S. Truman; 1884-1972, Mexico
Portable household
53
Furniture
Last days of Hitler
106
Adolf Hitler; 1889-1945
Hungarian Caruso
125
Miklos Vary Weinstock GAFNI
Youth center
131
Recreation centers, Coral Gables (Fla.)
Life goes to a party in a deserted mansion
138
Country estates
Brave new machines
142
Vending machines

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