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LIFE

Front Cover
26 Feb 1940
96 pages
Vol. 8, No. 9
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

Letter describing a visit to the British expeditionary force in France
8
Great Britain Army, World War, 1939-1945 (Personal narratives)
Ace goalie poses for ace action shots
10
Hockey
Youth congress in Washington hears President Roosevelt tell them they're all wet
17
American Youth Congress
Finland's Verdun
22
Russo-Finnish War, 1939-1940
Finnish town hides in the woods
24
Russo-Finnish War, 1939-1940
Mercury, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter and Venus line up as evening stars
33
Planets
Koussevitzky, ex-bull fiddler, conducts best U.S. orchestra
42
Serge Koussevitzky; 1874-1951
Human infants make good laboratory subjects in child-development study
51
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, Child psychology, Children (Growth and development)
New museum display shows what animals see and how
60
American Museum of Natural History, Animals, Vision
Gargantua, world's most successful animal lives for one purpose: murder
63
Gorillas

Vatican of Pius XII.
26
Motion picture reviews (Single works)
Movie on Vatican of Pius XII is great newsreel scoop
26
Vatican City
Camera at Marineland records delivery of the first porpoise ever born in captivity
28
PORPOISES.
German victors set about destroying conquered Poland
30
Poland (History, Occupation, 1939-1945)
Thirties: an album
67
Nineteen hundred and thirties, United States (Social history)
Houston's drive-in trade gets girl show with its hamburgers
84
Waiters and waitresses
Republican program committee report
88
Republican Party (U.S.)
Finnish festival
90
Finns (United States)

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