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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

Crowding in at Lincoln's death
16
Abraham Lincoln (American president); 1809-1865 (Statues, portraits, etc)
House of horror stuns the Nation
24
Edward Gein; 1906-1984, Crime and criminals (Wisconsin), Criminally insane, Plainfield (Wis.)
Students pan a dancing ban
32
Wake Forest University, Dance, Riots
Alaska crash has its hero
41
Calvin CAMPBELL, Aviation (Accidents)
Tupolev's titanic turboprop
42
Airplanes
Sayonara
72
Motion picture reviews (Single works)
Men of Eli at Oxford
81
Roger Dennis HANSEN, University of Oxford
Henry J. in Hawaiian playground
87
Henry John Kaiser; 1882-1967, Honolulu (Hawaii) (Hotels, motels, etc)
Old master's modern heirs
94
Claude Monet; 1840-1926, Art, Abstract, Impressionism (Art)
Treasury of eccentrics
101
Charles Kay OGDEN, Jeremy Bentham; 1748-1832, Charles Waterton; 1782-1865, Eccentrics and eccentricities, British

Man to be thankful for
44
Theodore Roosevelt; 1858-1919
Sea grotto's marble bounty
49
Roman antiquities, Sculpture, Greek
Portrait
50
Giulio Jacopi; b. 1898, Jon Schueler; 1916-1992, Sue MITCHELL
Big jump on the ski season
57
Skiing
Sallie, season's hit singer
62
Sallie BLAIR
High-paid llama in big city
68
Animals as actors
To-do over muumuu
117
Western College for Women, Women college students
Japanese justice
125
William Sylvester GIRARD, Trials (Japan)
Cocktail party: hurrah?
134
Entertaining, United States (Social life and customs)
Class in a store window
144
School and the home
Khrushchev: man behind the masks
146
Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev; 1894-1971, Communist Party (Soviet Union)
Wrestling script gone awry
165
Wrestling, New York (N.Y.) (Riots)

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