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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, ink-blot psychology test inspires fanciful ballet
18
Ballet, Photography, Artistic
5-4-3-2-1 and the hydrogen age is upon us
24
Hydrogen bombs (Testing)
All plans to evacuate cities face staggering difficulties
30
Civil defense
New look for windshields
34
Bellingham (Wash.)
Cool work in a blaze
36
Ships (Fires and fire prevention), Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc
Passionate Salome
81
Phyllis Curtin
Romance that rocked Yugoslavia
89
Milena VRAJAKOVA, Yugoslavia (Social life and customs)
Art riches of the Andes
100
Indians (American) (Art)
Graduate course in baby-sitting
107
Baby sitters
Wine buying with the mystery removed
112
Wine

Bull in the bedroom
41
Bulls
Senate probers pick toothpick collector
42
Government investigations
Party-liners win a union
47
Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.), International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers, Butte (Mont.)
Basset does bit for art
55
Art (Study and teaching, Projects), Children's art
New and mightier atom smasher
62
Accelerators (Electrons, etc.)
Not yet thirteen
71
Clothing and dress (Children)
Salome
81
Richard Strauss; 1864-1949, Opera reviews (Single works)
Warmed lamb
122
Lambs
Whopping talent spree
127
Musicals, revues, etc, Television program reviews
One-handed Kid doesn't make it
133
Kid GAVILAN, Bobo Olson OLSON, Boxing
New light on Ava
139
Ava Gardner; 1922-1990, Motion picture production and direction
Marvin Hewitt, Ph(ony) D.
144
Marvin Harold HEWITT, Impostors
Golden apple
163
Musicals, revues, etc (Plots, themes, etc)
Life goes to Minna Wetzlar's surprise party
170
Entertaining

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