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Contents

La belle Renee
8
Renee LEHUT, Communist Party (France), Elections (France)
Speaking of pictures
18
Laurence Olivier; 1907-1989
Metropolitan opera opens
33
Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.), New York (N.Y.) (Social life and customs)
Picture of the week
38
Friendship Food Train
Thanksgiving
38
Pilgrims (New England colonists)
Bull's run: was Halsey right at Leyte gulf?
73
William Frederick Halsey; 1882-1959, Thomas Cassin Kinkaid; 1888-1972, Philippine Sea, Battles of the, 1944
Top weaver
93
Dorothy Liebes; 1899-1972, Textile fabrics
Case of the Winslow boy
97
George Archer-Shee
Winslow boy
97
Terence Rattigan (English dramatist.)
Invulnerable man
103
Mirin DAJO, Hypnotism

Reuther wins
40
Walter Philip Reuther; 1907-1970, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America
Chinese flood land
42
China (History, Civil War, 1945-1949)
Exit Hughes
44
Bennett Edward Meyers, Government investigations
Atlantic rescue
46
Shipwrecks
Nobel prize goes to Gide
51
Andre Gide (French novelist, essayist and critic.); 1869-1951, Nobel prizes
Star is born
59
June Lockhart; 1925-.
Painless needle
65
Medical supplies
Karl Priebe
68
Karl John PRIEBE
Top New York subdeb
111
Pamela Helene Dudley CURRAN
Unconquered
116
Motion picture reviews (Single works)
Italy
119
Reconstruction (1939-1951) (Italy), Italy (Description and travel)
Movie hearings
137
Government investigations, Motion picture industry (Anti-Communist measures)
Football reunion
151
Football, Mitchell (S.D.)
Life goes to a party in an octagon house at Irvington, N.Y.
158
Carl Lamson Carmer; 1893-1976, Historic houses, sites, etc (New York (State))
High-climbing acrobat
164
Franz FURTER, Acrobats and acrobatism

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