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Contents

Giant tropical beetles fight over a female
6
Beetles
Yanks make a hit in India
11
Americans (India), UNITED STATESArmy/Expeditionary forces, India
War Congress opens in guarded Capitol
23
United States Congress (78th, 1st session: 1943)
Decade of diplomacy shows the price of peace at any price
28
United States Dept. of State, World War, 1939-1945 (Diplomatic history)
Small boy portrait
29
Thomas Leigh GATCH
Orchestra man looks at world's great musiclans
45
Musicians
Grant Wood
52
Grant Wood (American painter.); 1891-1942
Zero Mostel is a funny man with method in his madness
61
Zero Mostel; 1915-1977
Blimps patrol coast
69
Airships, Coast defenses
Cover girl
74
Rita Hayworth (American actress.); 1918-1987, Motion picture reviews (Single works)

Tunisian war
30
World War, 1939-1945 (Campaigns and battles, Tunisia)
New Year's eve at Friendship
32
Walsh MCLEAN, Washington (D.C.) (Social life and customs)
Ice storm coats New England
34
Ice storms
U.S. snubs China's army mission
39
Shih-fel HSIUNG, China People's Liberation Army, World War, 1939-1945 (Allied cooperation)
Portrait
39
WEI TAO-MING.
Suzy-Q comes back from a year of action
82
Felix M. HARDISON, Airplanes, Military, World War, 1939-1945 (Aerial operations)
Life rides the route of a rural mailman in Vermont
94
Rural free delivery, Vermont
Psychology seeks clues in faces, manners. bearing
98
Personality
Personality
98
Werner WOLFF

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