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LIFE

Front Cover
20 May 1940
120 pages
Vol. 8, 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

Champion smoke-ring blower of the world in action
6
Bert PICHEL, SMOKE rings
Bratt on war
14
World War, 1939-1945 (Norway)
War in a French chateau
16
France (Social conditions)
Total war starts
25
World War, 1939-1945 (Campaigns and battles, Western)
Parachute troops rain down behind Dutch-Belgian lines
28
Germany (Army, Parachute troops)
Villain of Eden is an unloved friend of man
66
Snakes
Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier leave Hollywood to play greatest love drama
71
William Shakespeare; 1564-1616 (Plays, Romeo and Juliet)
Laurence et Vivien
74
Vivien Leigh; 1913-1967, Laurence Olivier; 1907-1989
Psychology professor hypnotizes student in class demonstration
78
Harold Alfred SWENSON, Hypnotism
Drake relays carnival
83
Drake University, College athletics

Der tag in Brussels
30
Air raids, World War, 1939-1945 (Aerial operations), Brussels (Belgium)
1940 recalls Belgium of 1914
32
World War, 1914-1918
Empire builder Hill's grandson builds a jounceless railroad car
41
Railroads (Cars)
Air marshal, Canada's great war ace
44
William Avery Bishop
Lillian Russell
55
Motion picture reviews (Single works)
Syria
86
World War, 1939-1945 (Middle East), France (Army), Syria
France's Weygand
94
Maxime Weygand; 1867-1965
Secret initiation
108
College fraternities, Initiations (into trades, societies, etc.)
Wheelock carves with Yankee wit
114
Warren Wheelock; 1880-1960

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Allies American beauty beer Belgian Belgium Billy Bishop blend bomb bombers BOURKE-WHITE brassiere British Brussels Canadian Club cavalry Chicago chief clean color comfort command Company Copyright 1940 cost Cream dealer dress DRINK KNOX dry shaver East Electrolux famous feel Foch France French Army girls Graflex hearing infantry Juliet Kensington Knox Gelatine Kroehler Lady Elgin Laurence Olivier Lillian Russell live Longines look MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE Maxime Weygand MAYONNAISE meharists miles military Modess Motor night officers Olivier and Vivien Paris Pepperell Pichel picture pipe planes protection Pullman railroad Romeo salad Scarlett O'Hara Servel shaving shoe Simoniz Sirs slide fasteners smart smoke ring snakes soldier Sonotone speed Studebaker Champion style Syria Talon Tampax taste There's tion tires tobacco Total war continued Vivien Leigh watch wear Wheelock whiskey York