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

Speaking of pictures
14
NATIONAL air mail week, 1946
Doctor football
19
Louis Henry BAKER, Football
Lewis starts his biggest battle
27
John L. Lewis; 1880-1969
C.I.O. backs Lewis
30
Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.)
Untragic America
32
Democracy, Tragedy, United States (Civilization)
Child's best seller
59
Margaret Wise Brown, pseuds) Donald, Children's literature
Trick basketball
71
Basketball
Venus on the half shell
76
Billy Rose; 1899-1966, Nightclubs
Sixty-five miles up
83
Photography, Aerial
Dreams that money can buy
86
Motion picture reviews (Single works)

Picture of the week
33
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; 1882-1945 (Statues, portraits, etc)
Lord Mayor's show
34
London (England) (Mayors)
College fence
38
Roosevelt University
Blind businessmen
40
Safety movement
Death of OPA.
43
United States Office of Price Administration
Jefferson letter
44
Thomas Jefferson (American president.); 1743-1826
Joan of Lorraine
51
Maxwell Anderson; 1888-1959
Mr New York dies
91
Jimmy Walker (American mayor.); 1881-1946
Peacetime uses of atomic energy
97
Nuclear nonproliferation, Nuclear energy (Economic aspects), Nuclear power plants
Report on Japan
104
Douglas MacArthur; 1880-1964, Reconstruction (1939-1951) (Japan), Japan (History, Allied occupation, 1945-1952)
Portrait
108
Hirohito (Emperor of Japan); 1901-1989
John Gabriel Borkman
109
Henrik Ibsen (Norwegian dramatist.); 1828-1906
Life goes to a snail watch in England
128
Snails
Kissing the bride
134
Radio broadcasting

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