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Contents

Speaking of pictures, these show flying squirrels in action
16
Squirrels
Veep takes a wife
23
Alben William Barkley (American vice-president.); 1877-1956, Jane Barkley
Revolution on the campus
28
Liberal education
B-29s have a bad week
30
Aviation (Accidents)
Drought turns New York reservoirs to puddles
32
New York (N.Y.) (Water supply)
Color in slips
52
Underwear
Eager Bieber
55
Nita BIEBER
Wonderful Mounties, hit of National horse show
58
Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Horse shows
Odd scholarships
65
Scholarships and fellowships
Camera abstractions
70
Keld Helmer-Petersen; 1920-., Photography, Artistic

Americans abroad
34
Dean Acheson; 1893-1971, Congressmen
Feast for the dead
36
Fasts and feasts, Mexico (Social life and customs)
Queen high
41
Queen Frederika (consort of Paul I, King Of The Hellenes); 1917-1981
Seamen's civil war
42
Joseph E. Curran; 1906-1981, National Maritime Union of America
UE has a civil war
44
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America
Maille's children are feted by their American godparents
49
Girard Van Barkaloo HALE, Mrs Girard Van Barkaloo Hale HALE, Maille (France)
Radio-controlled rats
79
Joseph Anthony GENGERELLI, Brain, Psychophysiology
Hilton the host
85
Conrad N. Hilton (American hotel executive.); 1887-1979, Hilton Hotels Corp, Hotels, motels, etc.Chain and franchise operations
Taft and Ohio
101
Robert A. Taft (American senator.); 1917-1993, Republican Party (U.S.), United StatesPolitics and government
All the king's men
111
Motion picture reviews (Single works)
Life goes to a Chariton contest
122
Dance (Competitions)
Royale flush
127
Nightclubs

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