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- Riviera Fashions Pajama Top Jacket
- On Ben Franklin's 250TH Birthday
- His Intimate Personal Letters
- Biggest Sunken Treasure Find
- Anita Ekberg In Location In War And Peace
- Three Times At Brink Of War
- How Dulles Gambled And Won
- Southwest Arts And Skills
- Mr. Truman Today, Still Campaigning
- Beginning In This Issue: Volume II Of The Truman Memoirs
- Basis For Controversial China Policy
- Florida's '56 Tops Them All
- Henry Ford II At River Rouge
- Missionaries Jungle Martyrdom: Diaries And Exclusive Photos
- Truman Tells How He Confounded Experts In 48 Election Upset
- Shirley Jones In Movie Carousel
- New Series On A Family Problem
- How To Give Children's Parties
- Korea - And How Truman Reacted
- Truman And MacArthur At Wake Island
- In This Issue: Two Sides Of A Great Dispute
- By Harry S. Truman MacArthur Left Me No Choice
- By Douglas MacArthur It Was A Vengeful Reprisal
- Claire Bloom In TV-Film Premiere Of Richard III
- Truman On Eisenhower In Politics
- H.L. Menchken's Last Writings
- Washington's Trail: A Photo Essay
- Stone Age Survivors: Eskimo Family
- The Epic Of Man Part II
- A President's Heavy Burdens
- Long-Range Missiles 8 Pages Of Color On Today's Big Question
- Kim Novak: The Trials Of A New Star
- Seven Years Of Heartbreak
- A Marriage Sundered By Immigration Laws
- Children's Parties II: 6-Year-Olds
- The President And His Decision
- A Leap Year Guide: Where To Find Men
- A Thief Who Stole $10 Million In Jewels
- Tells How He Did It
- The Author And The Williamsburg Bell
- Beginning In This Issue Sir Winston Churchill
- His History Of The English-Speaking Peoples
- Julie Andrews She Sings On Broadway In Major New Musical
- How Golf's Con Men Take The Suckers
- Churchill's History - Part II
- The Norman Conquest
- The Teen - Age Telephone Tie - Up
- U.S. Antarctic Beachhead Including Eight Pages In Color
- Churchill On Liberty's First Charter
- Grace Kelly Education Of A Princess: For A Movie And For Real
- Afghanistan Wild Frontier In The Cold War
- Churchill IV: Torture And Torment
- Berber Girls Today A Prehistoric Way Of Life
- The Epic Of Man Part IV
- The Discovery Of Agriculture
- Clubb's Warning On Mid-East
- Jayne Mansfield Broadway's Smartest Dumb Blonde
- What Khrushchev Isn't Telling
- Stalin's Guiltiest Secret
- Mr. And Mrs. Daniel
- Amateurs And Hypocrisy
- Whittaker Chambers Interprets Reds New War For Men's Minds
- Those Two Big Weddings
- Sunbathers Lazy Susan For An Ingenious House
- All About Your Feet
- What You Should Know About Them
- The Need For Better Scientists And M.I.T's Answer
- Gainsborough Look In New Fashions
- Henry Wallace Tells Why He's Anti-Red And Pro-Ike
- Guide For Draft Age Men
- Trick Towels For The Beach
- Beginning A New Series Democratic Candidates
- No. 1: Stuart Symington Leading Dark Horse
- Deborar Kerr, Yul Ertkner Bring King And I To Screen
- The Frogman: His Last Hours And What He Was Looking For
- How Kefauver Keeps Going
- Primping In Ancient Sumer
- Epic Of Man Part V
- First Great Civilization
- Interservice RDW Over Weapons
- Carroll Baker: The Movies Best New Dramatic Actress
- Passages From New Hersey Novel And Photo Trip That Inspired It
- What To Do For Your Aching Back
- Tilting Horizon At Start Of Roll
- Special Issue Air Age
- Man's New Way Of Life
- In World Reshaped By Conquest Of Skies
- The Remarkable Mickey Mantle
- Tito - Again A Russian Hero An Intimate Picture Report
- The South's Favorite Son
- Lyndon Johnson: The Dark Horse Who May Unite The democrats
- Stephanie Griffin Young Actress Learning To Act Young
- The Great Beer Mutiny Preview From A Hilarious Novel
- The Adams Family - First Look At The Private Papers
- An American Beauty And Diplomat's Daughter In A Spanish Debut
- Best U.S. Athletes Qualify For Olympics
- Robert Penn Warren Goes Home Again To A South In Turmoil
- Gary's Movie Son, Tony Perkins.
- What About Nixon? Robert Doughlan Conducts A Debate
- Duke Of Windsor As Gardener: His Story Plus Color Photos
- Battle Of Buena Vista
- Beginning In This Issue
- A U.S. Soldier's Candid Account Of Love And War
- Mexican War Diary Is Literary Find
- Pier Angeli
- The Folding Of The Big Top
- Mexican War Memoirs A Great Battle, A Romantic Duel.
- A Growing Crop Of Garden Clubs
- At Dawn, Lifeboat Leaves The Stricken Andrea Dorja
- Rescue At Sea
- Life's On The Spot Exclusive Pictures
- Text By Author Of A Night To Remember
- An Up To Date Dirnol From Bavafia
- The Defender Of The Marine A Close-Up Of Emile Zola Berman
- The Wackiest Team In Baseball
- Audrey Hepburn As Tolstoy Heroine In War And Peace
- Why More And More Ministers Crack Up
- New Photos Expose A Historic HDAX
- The Case Of Dr. Cook And Mt. McKinley
- Adlai Stevenson And Mrs Roosevelt
- Democratic Convention In Color And Black And White
- The Impact Of Elvis Presley
- The Weather Is Changing
- A Slave Auction In Old Charleston
- Beginning A Major Life Series Segregation
- The Colorful G.D.P. Convention
- Siobhan McKenna In Saint Joan
- That Book About Me - Curley Speaks Up On The Last Hurrah
- Segregation, Part II: The Coming Of Jim Crow
- Salvaged Suitcase From Andrea Doria
- Daring Divers Inside Andrea Doria: Their Story Plus Color Photos
- Segregation III - Views Of The South Violence Enters The Debate
- Janet Blair One Of The Beauties Was Open TV Season
- Facts And Fantasies About Mars As Earth Gets Its Best Look
- Illinois: The Fraternity Capital
- Egyptian Artist
- Morality And Segregation
- A Round Table Of Southern Churchmen An Article By Billy Graham
- Epic Of Man: Egypt
- State Masonic Grand Masters
- The U.S. Masons A Pictorial Essay In Color
- What It's Like To Be Tall: Advantages And Problems
- Lovely Liz Taylor In Movie Giant
- What Drugs Do For Mentally Sick: Two Actual Cases In Photos
- Candidates View Of Campaign: The Ordeal And The Aura
- The Bather By Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
- A New Study Of The Nude By a Famous Art Scholar
- Nip-And-Tuck Fight For Congress
- Thrilling Plane Rescue At Sea
- Sir Winston Churchill
- He Writes Of Henry VIII, A Wily King, And Of His Romantic Misadventures.
- Eisenhower In Minneapolis
- Crisis In The Satellites New Cracks In The Red Empire
- The Golden Age Of Elizabeth By Sir Winston Churchill
- Rosalind Russell As Auntie Mame In Broadway's Red-Hot Hit
- Pictures From Two Fronts
- Inside Hungary And On The Suez
- Vaudeville By Fred Allen
- An Egyptian Wounded In Battle For Mideast
- Country Music - A Photo Essay
- Santee Blows Whistle On Track Pay - Offs
- Comeback For Bergman In Film Anastasia
- Russian Terror Inside Hungary
- Pro-Soviet Traitors In The New Poland
- Flag At Half-Mast Marks Arizona's Hulk
- Beginning In This Issue, Waiter Lord's
- Day Of Infamy
- The Human Drama Of Pearl Harbor
- Bobby Morrow, Olympic Sprint Champ
- The Olympic Games - In Color
- Day Of Infamy II: War Brings
- Havoc And Heroism To Pearl Harbor
- Baptism: One Of Seven Sacraments
- The Christian Sacraments
- What They Mean - A Photo Essay
- Pearl Harbor - The Battle's Climax
- Working Mother
- Special Issue The American Woman
- Her Achievements And Troubles
- Special Two-In-One Holiday Issue
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Life was an American magazine published weekly from 1883 to 1972, as an intermittent "special" until 1978, and as a monthly from 1978 until 2000. During its golden age from 1936 to 1972, Life was a wide-ranging weekly general-interest magazine known for the quality of its photography, and was one of the most popular magazines in the nation, regularly reaching one-quarter of the population.
