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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
16
Children (Photographs)
Bloody riots upset Bogota meeting
23
Bogota (Colombia) (Riots, 1948)
Picture of the week
30
Dwight David Eisenhower; 1890-1969
Coming: a hungry 25 years
30
Food supply
Britain dedicates Roosevelt statue
32
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; 1882-1945 (Statues, portraits, etc)
War memoirs
48
World War, 1939-1945 (Diplomatic history)
Harvard friends
85
Clarence HOLLOWAY, Robert Lee HUMPHREY, Blacks (Northern States)
Birth of solar system
91
Solar system
Anna Karenina
101
Motion picture reviews (Single works)
Flexible desk
107
Maria Bergson; 1914-., Desks

Air force displays its new jet planes
34
Airplanes, Military, Jet propulsion
Traveler Stassen goes a long way
36
Harold E. Stassen
Death of a spy
39
CHIN PI-HWEI (Yoshiko Kawashima), Spies
Portrait
43
John MAXWELL, John George Scott; 1958-., Stanley Baldwin BALDWIN of Bewdley, Neville Chamberlain (British prime minister.); 1869-1940, Fred Lawrence Whipple (American astronomer.); 1906-2004
Real dark horses start running for the presidency
43
Presidential candidates (1948)
Zacchinis
111
Zacchini family, Circus performers
Life goes to Rugby week in Bermuda
120
Bermuda (Social life and customs)
Shoes and stockings to show the ankle
128
Shoes
Cormorant in the bathtub
134
Cormorants

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