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LIFE

Front Cover
27 May 1957
146 pages
Vol. 42, No. 21
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

Floor full of fortunes
14
Cookies
Mighty city hears Billy's mighty call
20
Billy Graham; 1918-., Evangelistic work
How a miracle was made on Long Island to save a small boy
28
Benjamin Kent HOOPER (Jr), Accidents, Rescue work
Defense and the danger line
35
United States (Armed Forces, Appropriations and expenditures, Defenses, Foreign relations, Anti-Communist measures)
Littered trail of a Texas tornado
37
Tornadoes
How reds used captive brains
77
Ferdinand BRANDNER, Airplanes, Military (Soviet Union), Airplane engines, Jet, Prisoners of war (Soviet Union)
I wonder why nobody don't like me
85
Harry Belafonte
Wildflowers for gardens
92
Botany, Wildflowers
Scrapbook views of a smart stripper
103
Gypsy Rose Lee; 1914-1970
Great battle newly viewed
111
Dwight David Eisenhower; 1890-1969, Harold Macmillan; 1894-1986, Viscount Bernard Law Montgomery Montgomery of Alamein; 1887-1976, Gettysburg, Battle of, 1863

New landing at Jamestown
45
Jamestown Festival (1957)
Heroic fight for a colony's survival
46
Jamestown (Va.)
Knights of Columbus in 75th year
54
Knights of Columbus
Guitar-thumping demagogue
68
Andy Griffith; 1926-.
Face in the crowd
68
Motion picture reviews (Single works)
Saucer session for spaceship sighters
117
UFOs
Death finally takes a man who courted it
121
Alfonso PORTAGO (marques de), Automobile racing
Unending search for normal vision
126
Eye (Diseases and defects), Vision
Splendor fit for kings
143
Faisal II (King of Iraq); 1935-1958, Saud (King of Saudi Arabia); 1902-1969, Iraq (Politics and government), Saudi Arabia (Politics and government)

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