LIFE

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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

People around Truman
12
Oscar Berger, Caricatures and cartoons
New York's campaign for mayor
29
Jonah J. GOLDSTEIN, Newbold Morris; 1902-1966, William O'Dwyer; 1890-1964, New York (N.Y.) (Politics and government)
Bomb
36
Nuclear nonproliferation
Portrait
37
Pope Pius XII; 1876-1958
Allies indict 24 top Nazis for war crimes
38
World War, 1939-1945 (War criminals)
Boll weevils birth
82
Boll weevils, Insects (Development)
And then there were none
89
Motion picture reviews (Single works)
English country houses were homes of ruling class in Britain's great past
97
Country estates (Great Britain), Great Britain (Social history)
Short talk with Erlanger
108
Neuropsychiatry, Military psychiatry, SODIUM amytal
Two English kids go home
128
Refugee children

Atomic scientists speak up
45
Nuclear nonproliferation, Nuclear warfare
Japan's zaibatsu
51
ZAIBATSU., Japan (Industries)
Weight lifting
57
Weight lifting
Autumn
61
Rutherford PLATT, Autumn
Mr Piper of Cub-haven
67
William Thomas PIPER; 1881-., Airplane industry, Airplanes, Light
Teen-age magazine, published by junior misses
77
JUNIOR bazaar (periodical)
Electronic rat trap
132
RAT traps
New folk singer
137
Susan REED
Soldier, soldier
138
American folk songs
Life goes to Mike Romanoff's restaurant
141
Mike ROMANOFF (originally Harry F. Gerguson), Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Berlin's broken statues
146
Berlin (Germany) (Monuments, statues, etc)

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