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LIFE

Front Cover
4 Aug 1947
108 pages
ISSN 0024-3019
Published by Time Inc
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

Drinking in the U.S.
11
Liquor laws and regulations, United States (Social conditions)
Speaking of pictures: two artists show what they want in dream cars
18
Jane EAKIN, Robert Chesley OSBORN, Automobiles, Caricatures and cartoons
Krug's woe is a tabloid now
26
Howard Hughes (American airline, aircraft and motion picture executive.); 1905-1976
U.S. soil
34
Soil conservation
Frenchmen have a pleasant duel
36
Dueling
Renaissance minds
60
Niccolo Machiavelli (Italian statesman and political philosopher.); 1469-1527, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola; 1463-1494, Baldassare Castiglione (Italian diplomat.); 1478-1529, Girolamo Savonarola (Italian monk and martyr.); 1452-1498
Harness racing makes comeback
72
Horse racing
Tulsa twins
77
Youth, United States (Social life and customs)
New paint checks fire: Albi-R.
85
Paint, Fire resisting
Secret life of Walter Mitty
89
Motion picture reviews (Single works)

Portrait
41
Bernard Shaw (Irish dramatist.); 1856-1950, Thomas Mann (German novelist.); 1875-1955
Glory of Venice
46
Renaissance, Venice (Italy)
Travels of Marco Polo
48
Marco Polo; 1254-1323?.
Opulence
50
Art, Venetian
Secret life of Walter Mitty
91
James Thurber; 1894-1961
Sea lamprey menace
97
Lampreys
Life goes on a Southampton weekend
101
Entertaining

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