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Life Magazine, May 15, 1950 - One-piece suits

Life Magazine, May 15, 1950 - One-piece suits

Life Magazine, May 1, 1950 - Ruth Roman

Life Magazine, May 1, 1950 - Ruth Roman

Life Magazine, May 8, 1950 - Jackie Robinson

Original Life Magazine from May 8, 1950 - Jackie Robinson
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These issues are in pretty good shape. These are great for those who want a complete, original, average condition issue to read and enjoy. They may have some light to moderate flaws like small tears, spots, library stamps etc. but would make a great piece of history for the budget minded to mark any occasion.
Some of the contents in this issue
Follow-up letters on Shirley MacCalla, with photo (see LIFE April 17, 1950). Half page United States Stell ad with cartoon art by Gluyas Williams. Naked Doukhobors go on rampage, offshoot of Russian Orthodox Church, British Columbia, they burned 18 houses - who would have though that nudity and arson went together? Full page color Post's bran flakes cereal ad with cartoon baseball theme art. B-50 airplane launching. Nice full page color American Airlines ad with air traffic controllers, art by John Falter. The ugly prince of Bagheria, Sicily. 38th whooping crane, new egg laid by Josephine in Arkansas National Wildlife Refuge. Charming full page color Whitman's chocolates ad. Curious photo of Indian maharani observing strict purdah. New York students riot for teachers. Crude incubator keeps kidnapped baby alive - Chaneta Holden. Top U.S. fighter pilots compete at aerial gunnery meet. Queen Mary's rug is big crowd puller. Italian gardens - photo essay. Pennsylvania politics - photo essay. Paris Mannequin, model Christiane Richard. Movie - Charlie Chaplin's "City Lights." Artificial heart developed by Dr. John Gibbon, Jr. of Philadelphia's Jefferson Medical College. Prize-winning furniture - New York's Museum of Modern Art. San Antonio fiesta. Full page color Canadian Club whiskey ad with Ernest Parsons on the world's highest standard gauge railroad, hand cart, Peru.
Speaking of pictures, Detroit camera club takes arty salon shots among sand dunes
16
Photography, Artistic, Sand dunes
Ugly prince
21
prince of Palagonia FERDINANDO Francisco II
Naked Doukhobors go on rampage
29
Dukhobors
Rocket plane launching
34
Launch vehicles
Face of the press
36
American Society of Newspaper Editors
Silence is suicide
53
Rainer Hildebrandt, FIGHTERS against inhumanity (organization), Concentration camps
Paris mannequin
61
Christiane RICHARD, Models (Persons)
Aerial gunnery meet, Las Vegas, Nev
70
United States Air Force
Italian gardens
73
Gardens and gardening (Italy)
City lights
81
Motion picture reviews (Single works)
Whooping crane no. 38?
38
Whooping cranes
Crime, capitalism and communism
40
Frank Costello; 1891-1973, Government investigations
Portrait
40
Frank Erickson, John S. FINE, William J. jr HAMILTON, Morton WITKIN, Lloyd Hobart WOOD, Austin MEEHAN,
Frederick C. PETERS
, Theodore Roosevelt; 1858-1919, Jay COOKE; 1897-., John Crain KUNKEL,
James F. Jr MALONE
, Roger W. ROWLAND, Edward MARTIN, T. P. O'NEILL, J. Richardson Dilworth; 1916-1997,
Michael Angelo Musmanno; 1897-1968
, Francis John Myers; 1901-1956, Frank RUTH,
Maurice jr SPLAIN
, David Leo Lawrence; d. 1966
In pursuit of news
42
Robert J. DOYLE
It's all for peace
42
Germany (East), Soviet Union (Air Force)
New York students riot for teachers
47
New York (N.Y.) (Riots)
Smith girls quietly push world government
48
Smith College
Crude incubator keeps baby alive
50
Evelyn Jane JORDAN, Kidnapping
Artificial heart
90
Heart, Artificial
Queen Mary's rug
95
Mary (Queen, consort of George V, King of Great Britain); 1867-1953, Rugs and carpets
Prize-winning furniture
98
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), Furniture (Design)
Conspiracy inside communism
103
Communist International, Communism (History, Soviet Union)
Pennsylvania politics
118
James Henderson Duff; 1883-1969, Joseph Ridgway Grundy; 1863-1961, Pennsylvania (Politics and government)
Jackie Robinson's double play
129
Jackie Robinson; 1919-1972, Baseball players
Life goes to a San Antonio fiesta
144
Festivals
Python is a boy's pal
152
Pets, Pythons