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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

Speaking of pictures, Pogo sticks on stilts
2
Bill GAFFNEY, Tom WEAVER, Acrobats and acrobatism
Temperature 112 humidity 100
10
Tecolete Tunnel (Calif.)
Difficult question from the Far East
14
Syngman Rhee; 1875-1965, Anti-Communist movements (History), Korea (South) (Politics and government)
Hopeful note from the Middle East
14
Great Britain (Foreign relations, Egypt)
Pike's pique
15
Fish (Photographs)
Pansy, the pangolin of Fort Worth zoo
43
Pangolins, Zoos
Boat's live ballast
51
Sailboats, Sailing
Discount houses stir up a $5 billion fuss
52
Discount houses (Retail trade)
Family collection
63
Art (Exhibitions, Collectors and collecting)
Leonie's double life
69
Leonie VERNET

Dienbienphu mop-up
16
Dien Bien Phu, Battle of, 1954
Biggest rock fall yet at the big falls
18
Avalanches, Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.)
After twenty-five centuries of Suez history: a great day in the land of Egypt
20
Great Britain (Foreign relations, Egypt), Suez Canal (Egypt)
Wanted: a mandate
35
Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar; 1901-1973, Political campaigns
Transport jet is in the air
38
Airplanes, Jet
Faulkner wall plot
77
William Faulkner (American novelist.); 1897-1962, Fiction (Technique)
Hamlet enigma at Elsinore
81
Ib J. MELCHIOR, William Shakespeare; 1564-1616, Helsingor (Denmark)
My solution of the cipher
88
William Shakespeare; 1564-1616, Cryptography
Highland flingding
94
Motion picture production and direction
Working cowhand, six years old
98
Cowboys

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