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LIFE

Front Cover
5 Feb 1940
84 pages
Vol. 8, No. 6
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

Boston museum exhibits candid animal pictures
6
Animals (Photographs), Photography (Exhibitions)
Americans get hot under the collar as British keep seizing U.S. mail
13
World War, 1939-1945 (Great Britain), Searches and seizures
German bomber sinks an unarmed fishing trawler in the North sea
18
World War, 1939-1945 (Aerial operations, Germany)
Arizona hunters shoot 55 buffalo to decrease size of state's herd
22
Bison, American
Cromwells arrive in Ottawa and take over U.S. legation
24
James H. R. Cromwell; 1898-1990
Illustrations by P. Reisman for a new Anna Karenina tell story of Tolstoy's tragic heroine
46
Philip Reisman; 1904-1992, Leo Tolstoy (graf); 1828-1910
Musical know-it-all
55
Oscar Levant; 1906-1972
Brackman's quiet nudes and portraits win fame in era of noisy isms
58
Robert Brackman
Classics at St John's come into their own once more
61
St. John's College (Annapolis, Md.), Books and reading (Best books), Liberal education
God of the Communists lies for his first entombed portrait
68
Vladimir Il'ich Lenin; 1870-1924

John Roukema, from Holland, is a champion skater
27
John ROUKEMA
Frick and Frack from Switzerland are top U.S. skating comedians
28
Comedians, Ice skating
Swiss family Robinson
33
Motion picture reviews (Single works)
With his atom-busting cyclotron, Lawrence of California wins the Nobel prize in physics
42
Ernest Orlando Lawrence; 1901-1958, Accelerators (Electrons, etc.)
Mrs Roosevelt
70
Eleanor Roosevelt; 1884-1962
Architects ball
80
Masquerades
Devil dance
84
Dance (Religious aspects)

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