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Contents

Australia wants the GIs back
9
Americans (Australia), Veterans
Speaking of pictures
20
V. J. PRUCHA, Cedar, Topiary work
Exodus refugees end tragic voyage
33
Refugees
U.S. groups support the refugees' cause
36
Jews (United States)
Picture of the week
38
PRAIRIE fires
I spy Moulton
65
Graham MOULTON, Detectives
Thoreau's Walden
70
Henry David Thoreau (American naturalist and essayist.); 1817-1862
Valli
75
Alida VALLI
Balance of power
76
Balance of power, United States (Foreign relations)
No-account dragon of Furth
97
Furth (Germany) (Pageants)

Marshall plan: our move next
38
Marshall Plan, United States (Economic relations, Europe)
St Peter's crowd hears Pope speak
40
Pope Pius XII; 1876-1958
Truman ends trip
43
Harry S. Truman; 1884-1972
Difficulty with Gustave Dore
44
Gustave Dore; 1832-1883, Art trade
Tennis peepers
46
Tennis
Last Indian scouts retire
51
United States Army (Indians (American))
Portrait
52
William Frederick Halsey; 1882-1959, Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright; 1883-1953, John DEFERRARI, Harry PRICE; 1881-.
Tuna tournament
57
Salt water fishing, Tuna fish
How homing pigeons find their way
105
Henry Lincoln YEAGLEY, Birds (Flight), Orientation, Pigeons
Two-minute car washer
111
Automobiles (Cleaning)
Newest styles give every woman's figure a chance
115
Fashion
Who's who of English ghosts
126
British, Ghosts
Kiss of death
143
Motion picture reviews (Single works)
Cracow's carvings
149
Art (Conservation and restoration), Krakow (Poland) (Churches (Buildings))
Life goes to an oldsters' outing
154
Aged (Recreation)
Amphibious feline
163
Cats

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