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LIFE

Front Cover
26 Sep 1955
182 pages
Vol. 39, No. 13
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

Concept for flying airfield
22
Airplanes (Transportation), Airplanes, Freight
Nation tackles school crisis
31
Public schools, School attendance
Ghosts of history
38
Vladimir Il'ich Lenin; 1870-1924, Christopher SCOTT, Joseph Stalin; 1879-1953
Smiling steps toward a hard bargain
42
Konrad Adenauer; 1876-1967, Germany (West) (Foreign relations, Soviet Union), Soviet Union (Foreign relations, Germany (West))
Ike and the elders
49
Age and employment
Truman memoirs
82
United States (Politics and government)
Washington as Truman saw it
87
Washington (D.C.) (Description and travel)
Portrait
109
Martha Ellen TRUMAN
Phenix City story
123
Motion picture reviews (Single works)
Sin city sizzles again, but on film
123
Motion picture production and direction, Phenix City (Ala.)

Moses and the jackals
49
Building laws and regulations, Suburbs
Tension and jitters in home stretch
51
Baseball
Tall long shot in Philly
57
William Thacher LONGSTRETH, Political campaigns, Philadelphia (Pa.) (Politics and government)
Bubble blowing for business
62
Robert Chester KINTNER, Bubbles, Scientific research
Russians play a swan song
67
Austria (History, Allied occupation, 1945-1955), Soviet Union (Foreign relations, Austria)
Horsepower extravaganza
73
Machinery (Exhibitions)
Leaping lizards
79
Lizards
Miss America's photo album
133
Sharon Kay RITCHIE, Beauty contests
Which smile is the Mona Lisa's?
141
Art (Forgeries)
Phony tiara fooled Louvre
144
Musee du Louvre
Who'd have thunk there's a fur called slunk?
161
Fur
Blue yonder traditions
167
United States Air Force Academy
Rich marine eats his words
181
Richard Sherrill MCCUTCHEN, Cooking, French, Television broadcasting (Game shows)

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