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LIFE

Front Cover
7 Nov 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

Hapless Herman
4
Herman Hickman; 1911-1958, Coaches (Athletics)
Speaking of pictures
16
Ostriches
Big plunge
26
Parachuting
U.N. dedicates a world capital
33
United Nations (Headquarters)
U.N. week sets all-time attendance record
36
United Nations Day
Life congratulates Antoinette
57
dalai lama NGAWANG Lobsang Yishey Tenzing Gyatso; 1934?-.
Fresh milk from cans
59
Canned milk
Trial of the Dunmow flitch
65
Manners and customs, Marriage, Dunmow (England)
Nehru in the U.S.
68
Jawaharlal Nehru (Indian prime minister.); 1889-1964
Career sisters
75
Daly Sisters (Musical group)

$300 billion future
38
Finance, Income
Incident aboard the Illustrious
39
Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc
Lover on trial
40
Sigmund Z. ENGEL
Bronze Godiva
40
Lady GODIVA, Statues
Denfeld bows out
41
Louis E. Denfeld; 1891-1972
Birthday of a reluctant elder statesman
42
Owen D. Young; 1874-1962, VAN HORNESVILLE (N.Y.)
New York politics comes to fast boil
44
New York (N.Y.) (Politics and government)
Curley vs. the field
46
Boston (Mass.) (Politics and government)
Driscoll vs. Wene
46
New Jersey (Politics and government)
Life congratulates John Cunningham
54
Aviation records
Life congratulates J. Cunningham
54
John CUNNINGHAM; 1917-.
Life congratulates Erne St Claire
54
Salmon fishing
Life congratulates A. K. Gordon
57
Antoinette K. GORDON
Underground New York
80
New York (N.Y.)
Underground's capital city is Grand Central
84
Grand Central Terminal (New York, N.Y.)
It breeds odd quirks and bizarre behavior
90
New York (N.Y.) (Subways)
Wardrobe on $5-a-week
92
Clothing and dress (Prices)
Patient patron
103
Reynold ARNOULD, Camille RENAULT
Old pro beats Pancho
106
Tennis
Movie bad girls
108
Motion picture actors and actresses
Protestant's faith
112
Jesus Christ, World War, 1939-1945 (Religious aspects)
Hot-rod problems
122
Automobile drivers
Home-laid tile
131
Tiles
Lunts celebrate 25 triumphant years
134
Lynn Fontanne; 1887-1983, Alfred Lunt; 1892-1977
Life goes to the American royal, Kansas City's oldtime cattle show
142
Kansas City (Mo.) (Social life and customs)

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