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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

Photo-cartoons by a would-be economizer
12
Herbert George William SUNDELOF, Caricatures and cartoons
Yankees in Trinidad
16
Navy yards and naval stations, Trinidad and Tobago
Trip to the front
33
World War, 1939-1945 (Campaigns and battles, Soviet Union)
Portrait
41
John L. Lewis; 1880-1969
Portrait
41
Philip Murray; 1886-1952
Birth of the blues
96
Motion picture reviews (Single works)
Carolyn Lee, 7, marches into stardom
98
Carolyn LEE
Dollar pinching is in style as war touches average family
102
Cost and standard of living
Texas football
110
University of Texas (System), Football
Texas coach is leading citizen
112
Dana Xenophon Bible

Sons o' fun
44
Musicals, revues, etc (Reviews, Single works)
Mother donates bomber in memory of lost sons
46
Rachel MACROBERT
Mrs Vanderbilt, the echo of an elegant era
49
Grace Graham VANDERBILT; 3d), New York (N.Y.) (Social life and customs)
Aircraft armor must combine a minimum of weight with maximum strength
55
Armor plate
Commando raid on Bardia
63
Great Britain Army Commandos, World War, 1939-1945 (Campaigns and battles, Africa, Great Britain)
How to sponsor a new ship
79
Etiquette, SPONSORING (ships)
Waterfowl are now winging south after a wet and happy summer
87
Birds (Migration), Water birds
Claudia
118
Rose Franken; 1895-1988
Dorothy McGuire
118
Actress fits her part so well it is hard to tell where McGuire ends and Claudia begins
118
Dorothy McGuire; 1918-2001
Sahara railway
132
Railroad engineering, TRANS-SAHARA railway
New York City aquarium staff continues scientific investigations despite closing of city's favorite museum
138
New York Aquarium, Electric eels, Scientific research
Life goes calling on Cholly Knickerbocker
142
Cholly Knicker-bocker, pseud PAUL

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