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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

Comparison for a cataract
12
Angel Falls (Venezuela)
Friends of the West speak up
29
Asian-African Conference
Portrait
36
Zhou Enlai (Chinese prime minister and diplomat.); 1898-1976
Sir John tears off Chou's false front
36
Sir John Lionel Kotelawala; 1897-1980
Can we produce an Einstein?
42
Scientific research
Oklahoma
84
Motion picture reviews (Single works)
Old Madonna grows older, in church of Santa Maria Nuova, Rome
94
Saint Mary (Blessed Virgin) (Art), Painting (Conservation and restoration)
Little citizen
100
Blanka Sylvia CRAIG
Hero's great discovery is put to work
105
Jonas Salk; 1914-1995, Poliomyelitis (Vaccines and vaccination)
Otto, real and crazy
113
Fritz SHULZ-REICHEL

Sir Winston's hideaway
47
Sir Winston Churchill; 1874-1965
Fiesta fun and fire in old Valencia
51
Festivals, Valencia (Spain)
Death of a genius
61
Albert Einstein; 1879-1955
Old man's advice to youth
62
Albert Einstein; 1879-1955
Reading the Bible, cover to cover
69
Bible, Garber (Okla.)
Household in the pink
76
Color in house decoration
Precocious planters
79
Camp Fire Girls, Tree planting, Wichita (Kan.)
Reptile that really gets ruffled
119
Lizards
Chardin illumines a humble subject
125
Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin; 1699-1779
Baronial Busches
127
August Anheuser Busch; 1899-1989, Busch family
How a citadel for freedom was destroyed by the reds
138
Chinese (Singapore), Communism (Singapore), Education (Singapore)
Pulling a big oar at Cornell
157
Cornell University, Rowing
Salute to Sam
165
Samuel Johnson; 1709-1784

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