LIFE

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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

New method yields 2,500-year-old treasure
6
Photography in archeology, Excavations (Archeology), Italy (Antiquities)
Long tube's trek
20
Moving of machinery
Legislature faces the people
40
Nebraska Unicameral Legislature, Legislation (Nebraska)
Best pictured tornado
48
Tornadoes
Let's talk sense on the budget
57
Budget (United States)
Funny face
88
Motion picture reviews (Single works)
Bayou state's big booster
93
James Plemon Coleman; 1914-1991, Mississippi (Politics and government)
Robinson to Niarchos
107
Stavros Niarchos; 1909-1996, Edward G. Robinson, Art (Collectors and collecting)
Now a son who leads them
112
Blind, Deaf
Uncindery Cinderella
150
Television broadcasting (Musicals, revues, etc)

What foreign aid is, and is not
57
Economic assistance, American
Light turns for spring fancy
58
College students
Passing of a great French patriarch
61
Edouard Herriot; 1872-1957
Fuel-saving tourist bugs
69
Automobiles, Foreign
Mammoth moving of a sea mammal
75
Aquariums, Whales
Brass in the class
80
Teachers, United States (Armed Forces, Officers)
Ear holes for beauty
85
Earrings, Fads
Fun, fashions, photographic tricks
88
Motion picture photography
U.S. rooters for scooters
155
Motor scooters
Hollywood whodunit: an Oscar, whowonit?
161
Academy Awards, Motion picture authorship
Electronic comic and his tv tricks
167
Ernie Kovacs; 1919-1962, Television production and direction
Comedy crisis worries comics
176
Comedians, Television performers
Three-way war in one body
183
Schizophrenia
Lizzie
188
Motion picture reviews (Single works)
Missile with men in it
193
Airplanes, Experimental, Airplanes, Military
Chicago society takes to the ice
209
Curling (Sport), Chicago (Ill.) (Social life and customs)

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