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Contents

Speaking of pictures
10
Automobile racing
South Amboy clock stops at 7:26
17
Explosions, SOUTH AMBOY, New Jersey
Pomp and politics
22
Harry S. Truman; 1884-1972, Political campaigns
Petticoat rule in New Mexico
24
Women (Political activities), Hope (N.M.)
West Europe backs unity
26
Council of Foreign Ministers
Portrait
36
James Henderson Duff; 1883-1969, John S. FINE, Lloyd Hobart WOOD, Mary (Queen, consort of George V, King of Great Britain); 1867-1953
William Smith and Elmer Bender
38
Elmer C. Bender, William C. SMITH
Yukio Ozaki
38
Yukio Ozaki
Mrs O'Dwyer makes bow as hostess
41
Simpson) (Mrs William O'Dwyer O'DWYER, William O'Dwyer; 1890-1964, Gracie Mansion (New York, N.Y.), Mayors
American snakes
49
Snakes

Communists back Joliot
26
Frederic Joliot-Curie (French physicist.); 1900-1958
Fearful crest of a flood
28
Floods (Canada)
Good conservatives win
30
James Henderson Duff; 1883-1969, Pennsylvania (Politics and government)
King Rama IX.
35
PHUMIPHON
Italy's Anna Maria Alberghetti
36
Anna Maria Alberghetti; 1936-.
Winner by an oar
57
Rowing
Kings story, Edward, duke of Windsor
62
George V (King of Great Britain); 1865-1936, Wallis Warfield Windsor (Duchess of); 1896-1986
Pre-Aztec stone face
89
American Museum of Natural History, Mexico (Antiquities)
Life goes to Flickertail follies
94
University of North Dakota, College students

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