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Life Jan 1953
Life January 5, 1953 magazine back issue cover image

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Life January 5, 1953

Features
The American And His Economy
U.S. Home Builders Best Buy
Chemical Age - Farm Revolution
What's Ahead In Business, Jobs.

 


Life Jan 1953
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Life January 12, 1953

Features
Attire For Majorca, Fashion.
Willie The Actor Talks: Candid Memoirs Of A Crook
Majorca Displays Resort Clothes From U.S. And Europe

 


Life Jan 1953
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Life January 19, 1953

Features
Big Time Managers In The Cabinet
A Joint Close Up Of Wilson And Hompersy
Secretary Designate Of Defense And Of The Treasury

 


Life Jan 1953
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Life January 26, 1953

Features
Fashion Stylist Sigrid Soelter
Stalin's Sixth Column
Agents Buy Strategic Material In West
Stylist For Ohrbach's Low Cost High Fashions

 


Life Feb 1953
Life February 2, 1953 magazine back issue cover image

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Life February 2, 1953

Features
A Colorful Inauguration
February 2, 1953
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Life Feb 1953
Life February 9, 1953 magazine back issue cover image

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Life February 9, 1953

Features
Ocean's Geography
The World We Live In: Miracle Of The Sea
February 9, 1953
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Life Feb 1953
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Life February 16, 1953

Features
Robert Ruark Among The Mau Maus
Quee'ns Soldier
Her Majesty's Own Guards
A Colostream Sergeant

 


Life Feb 1953
Life February 23, 1953 magazine back issue cover image

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Life February 23, 1953

Features
Nell Owen Prettiest U.S. School Teacher
First Publication All-Time Great Bible Illustrations
A Color Collection
February 23, 1953

 


Life Mar 1953
Life March 2, 1953 magazine back issue cover image

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Life March 2, 1953

Features
Chinese On Formosa
Formosa Gets Ready
Adlai Stevenson His Own Story Of Campaign Revealed For First Time

 


Life Mar 1953
Life March 9, 1953 magazine back issue cover image

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Life March 9, 1953

Features
Vanessa Brown
Tax Happy In The Expense Account
Vanessa Brown Shows How To Wear Stoles
March 9, 1953

 


Life Mar 1953
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Life March 16, 1953

Features
Malenkov And Stalin
Love Among The Irish, A Lament By An Irishman
Gayer Days For Broadway
Malenkov And Stalin

 


Life Mar 1953
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Life March 23, 1953

Features
Elaine Stewart
Malenkov's Soft Spot
A Specialist Suggests How To Exploit It
Budding Starlet Visits The Folks In Jersey - Elaine Stewart

 


Life Mar 1953
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Life March 30, 1953

Features
A Marine Hero's Own Photos Of Korean Fighting - In Color
Coronation Fashions: Countess Of Balkeith In A Ball Gown
March 30, 1953

 


Life Apr 1953
Life April 6, 1953 magazine back issue cover image

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Life April 6, 1953

Features
Stalin's Ghastly Secrets
How He Won And Held Absolute Power By An Ex General Of Dreaded N.K.Y.D.
TV's First Family Lucille Ball, Desi Arnez Desi IV, Lucy Desiree

 


Life Apr 1953
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Life April 13, 1953

Features
Changing Landscape
The World We Live In: Part III The Face Of The Land
Stalin's Ghastly Secrets: Part II
Murder Begets Mass Murder

 


Life Apr 1953
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Life April 20, 1953

Features
Marlon Brando
Stalin's Secret Part III
He Kills His Friends, Sets Children Adrift
Marlon Brando As Antony In Movie, Julius Caesar.

 


Life Apr 1953
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Life April 27, 1953

Features
Queen Elizabeth
Intimate Glimpses Of Molotov, Vishinsky And Stalin's Marriage.
Elizabeth II An Official Coronation Portrait

 


Life May 1953
Life May 4, 1953 magazine back issue cover image

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Life May 4, 1953

Features
Masai Warrior Africa
Africa A Continent In Ferment
A Special Issue
May 4, 1953

 


Life May 1953
Life May 11, 1953 magazine back issue cover image

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Life May 11, 1953

Features
My Conscience Will Not Let Me Remain Silent
by General Van Fleet
Denim Gets Dressy A Cocktail Coat

 


Life May 1953
Life May 18, 1953 magazine back issue cover image

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Life May 18, 1953

Features
General Van Fleet Tells
How We Can Win In Korea
Harvest Of Arts In The Midwest

 


Life May 1953
Life May 25, 1953 magazine back issue cover image

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Life May 25, 1953

Features
Marilyn Monroe And Jane Russell
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
May 25, 1953

 


Life Jun 1953
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Life June 1, 1953

Features
Daughters Of The Stars Margaret Sullavan's
15-Year Old Broske
Coronation Guide - HOw To Follow Parade, Abbey Ritual.

 


Life Jun 1953
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Life June 8, 1953

Features
Roy Campanella, Baseball's Greatest Catcher.
Part IV The World We Live In
How Air Was Created: Structure Of Atmosphere
What Makes Winds Blow: Storms And Rainfall

 


Life Jun 1953
Life June 15, 1953 magazine back issue cover image

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Life June 15, 1953

Features
Quen Elizabeth Coronation
Newly Crowned Queen Receives Benediction
In This Issue Color Pictures Of Coronation

 


Life Jun 1953
Life June 22, 1953 magazine back issue cover image

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Life June 22, 1953

Features
Whittaker Chambers Writes On The Witch - Hunt Issue
Commencements A Kills College Graduate
June 22, 1953
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Life Jun 1953
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Life June 29, 1953

Features
Exclusive Pictures Victory Over Mt. Everest
CYD Cbarisse In A Spectrum Of Stars By Eliot Elisoron
June 29, 1953 / 20 Cents

 


Life Jul 1953
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Life July 6, 1953

Features
Terry Moore Hollywood's Sexy Tomboy
A Pulitzer Prize Winner's New Novel
The Bridges At Toko-Ri By James A. Michener
First Publication, Complete On This Issue.

 


Life Jul 1953
Life July 13, 1953 magazine back issue cover image

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Life July 13, 1953

Features
Conquest Of Everest
In This Issue Step By Step To The Top Of Everest
With Hillary And Tenzing
July 13, 1953 / 20 Cents

 


Life Jul 1953
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Life July 20, 1953

Features
Kennedy And Bouvier
Senator Kennedy Goes A Courting
Outdoor Cooking How And What To Grill
July 20, 1953

 


Life Jul 1953
Life July 27, 1953 magazine back issue cover image

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Life July 27, 1953

Features
Cancan Lingerie
A Baseball Curves But Doesn't Break
The Last Scientific Word

 


Life Aug 1953
Life August 3, 1953 magazine back issue cover image

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Life August 3, 1953

Features
Nicole Maurey Bing Crosby's
New Leading Lady
Indochina, All But Lost.
A Photo Report By David Douglas Duncan.

 


Life Aug 1953
Life August 10, 1953 magazine back issue cover image

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Life August 10, 1953

Features
Irish Invade Fashion World
Most Controversial Man On The Eisenhower Team
A New Kind Of Washington Close-Up
August 10, 1953

 


Life Aug 1953
Life August 17, 1953 magazine back issue cover image

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Life August 17, 1953

Features
The Pretty Wittlingers
Two Conducted Tours
The Louvre With Life's Cameras
Europe With Bill Mauldin

 


Life Aug 1953
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Life August 24, 1953

Features
Two Girls On Beach
Kinsey Report On Women
Comments By Ernest Ravemann, Kathleen Norris And Fannie Hurst
Ballerinas At A Beach

 


Life Aug 1953
Life August 31, 1953 magazine back issue cover image

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Life August 31, 1953

Features
Donna Reed As James Done's Alma
The Perils Of Space Flight
Life's Movie Of The Week
From Here To Eternity

 


Life Sep 1953
Life September 7, 1953 magazine back issue cover image

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Life September 7, 1953

Features
Evolution Dinosaurs
The World We Live In: Part V
Two Billion Years Of Evolution

 


Life Sep 1953
Life September 14, 1953 magazine back issue cover image

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Life September 14, 1953

Features
Casey Stengel Baseball
Color Photos Make Great City
Into A New And Magic World
Casey Stengel's Winning Smile

 


Life Sep 1953
Life September 21, 1953 magazine back issue cover image

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Life September 21, 1953

Features
Eugene Smith's Daughter
My Daughter Juanita A Photographic Essay By W Eugene Smith
Bill Oatis 42-Hour Ordeal
September 21, 1953

 


Life Sep 1953
Life September 28, 1953 magazine back issue cover image

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Life September 28, 1953

Features
The Enigma Of Faulkner His Family His County
In Two Parts - By Robert Coughlan
Life Goes To A $100,000 Party
September 28, 1953

 


Life Oct 1953
Life October 5, 1953 magazine back issue cover image

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Life October 5, 1953

Features
Italian Family In U.S.
From Italians Into Americans A Photo Essay On Three Generations
The Football Show - In Color
Mr. And Mrs. Alfonso La Falce

 


Life Oct 1953
Life October 12, 1953 magazine back issue cover image

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Life October 12, 1953

Features
The Dangerous Luxury Of Hating America
Our Powerful Red Neighbors In Guatemala
Backs Are Back In Fashion

 


Life Oct 1953
Life October 19, 1953 magazine back issue cover image

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Life October 19, 1953

Features
Age Of Mammals
The World We Live In : Part VI
October 19, 1953

 


Life Oct 1953
Life October 26, 1953 magazine back issue cover image

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Life October 26, 1953

Features
Beginning His Final Volume:
Sir Winston Churchill's Triumph And Tragedy
Nobel Prize Winner Tells How Victory Produced New Conflict
Vikki Dougan Actress, Model And Mother.

 


Life Nov 1953
Life November 2, 1953 magazine back issue cover image

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Life November 2, 1953

Features
Nobel Winner Churchill
Churchill Tells How
The Cold War Began
The Winner Of Nobel Prize For Literature

 


Life Nov 1953
Life November 9, 1953 magazine back issue cover image

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Life November 9, 1953

Features
Jill Corey
By Churchill: The Inside Story Of Yalta
Small Town Girl Gets New Name And A New Career
November 9 1953

 


Life Nov 1953
Life November 16, 1953 magazine back issue cover image

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Life November 16, 1953

Features
America's Guest: Queen Frederika Of Greece
Background Of Trotting Scandal
Churchill On The Great Betrayal

 


Life Nov 1953
Life November 23, 1953 magazine back issue cover image

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Life November 23, 1953

Features
Sandra Krasne: College Art Student
Who Was Harry Dexter White?
November 23, 1953
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Life Nov 1953
Life November 30, 1953 magazine back issue cover image

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Life November 30, 1953

Features
The World We Live In : Part VII
Creatures Of The Sea
The Queen Triggerfish

 


Life Dec 1953
Life December 7, 1953 magazine back issue cover image

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Life December 7, 1953

Features
Audrey Hepburn
What Makes Audrey Charm
Miss Hepburn at Home
December 7, 1953

 


Life Dec 1953
Life December 14, 1953 magazine back issue cover image

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Life December 14, 1953

Features
Vice President Richard Nixon
Beginning, A Series On High School Education In The U.S.
Part I - A Big Public Institution
Nixon, A Vice President Who Is Making Good By Robert Coughlan

 


Life Dec 1953
Life December 21, 1953 magazine back issue cover image

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Life December 21, 1953

Features
Canasta Pajamas
Inside A Modern Araian Nights Palace
December 21, 1953

 


Life Dec 1953
Life December 28, 1953 magazine back issue cover image

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Life December 28, 1953

Features
Four Great Churches
Four Great Protestant And Catholic Churches
The Wizard Of OZ In Rare Original Drawings

 

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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.

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