TITLE: LIFE magazine
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ISSUE DATE: November 23 1953; Vol 35 No 21
CONDITION: LARGE magazine, Approx 10oe" X 13oe". COMPLETE and in FAIR/GOOD condition. There's wear and staining to the covers. Pages are good.(See photo)

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COVER: Sandra Krasne: College Art Student.

THIS WEEK'S EVERTS:
Close-Up Of A Ghost Named Harry Dexter White.
Portrait Of A Man Dreaming Up A Coup.
Mossadegh's Great Ham Act Is Wasted.
A relaxed Magsaysay And The Honest Ballot Both Win.
Look folks, Our President Is Speaking French.
LIFE on the newsfronts of the world.
Republicans bounce back in California. (A smart Nixon pro shows a California cantidate how work will win a seat.
Arkansas Turkey Shoot.
FULL Page AD IN COLOR, featuriung Arlene Dahl for Lustre Creme Shampoo!
A new look at the old Flange Salute.
Editorial: Trieste is More Than A City.

Photographic Essay: Renaissance of The Rails, Railroads Photographed For Life By Albert Fenn."Roads' $8 Billion modernizing program involves devices like giant ditch reamers, herculean tie yankers, automatic ballast cleaners, electronic humps, slickless tracks."

ARTICLE: The War memoirs Of Sir Winston Churchill, Vol. VI, Part V -- Trimph and Tragedy.
THEATER: Josephine the Great.
MEDICINE: Clinic For Headaches.
DANCE:A Ballet Beauty Multiplied. "Color blurs and blobs display dancer's grace."
ART: The Plight Of A Pretty Painting Student. "A beautiful student shows she's serious" -- Sandra Krasne.
MOVIES:Stars Take Cinemascope Lying Down. How not to waste space on the screen for face close-ups? Shoot them lying down! That's what they do in HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE. Article on the movie, starring Marilyn Monroe, Lauren Bacall, and Betty Grable, multiple pictures of Marilyn trying on the glasses.
TELEVISION: A Silent Dinah Shore.
ARCHAEOLOGY:City Of Darius And Xerxes.
SPORTS :The One-Two Punch From Illinois -- J. C. Caroline and Mickey Bates.
MODERN LIVING:Women's Homework Is Displayed.
HISTORY: The Raising Of Penetanguishene's Pride.
OTHER DEPARTMENTS:
Letters To The Editors.
Speaking Of Pictures: American Babes In Vienna Woo.
Annoy Russian Bear.
Sequel: Flying Pole Lands In U.S. School.
Life'S Party: The Past Is Played Back For Birthday.
Miscellany: Example For A Baby.
50 DETECTIVES WORK ON A MYSTERY STORY:
The issue in which these little essays started appearing more than a year ago was full of famous people, a fact noted under the headline. "A Busy Week for Captains and Kings." The current issue. too, is concerned in a big way with what the original prospectus for LIFE called "...the gestures of the proud." There's a U.S. president and a former president; a Philippine president-elect and a defeated president: Kings Darius I and Xerxes as represented by their ancient capital; Marilyn Monroe, Lauren Bacall and Betty Grable sleeping in CinemaScope; a joy-riding Josephine Hull -- and a voiceless Dinah Shore. Mossadegh is shown in what may be the last act of a notable ham-acting career. And Winston Churchill winds up his great memoirs of World War II.

But it was a dead man, not really famous previously, who gave us the most trouble. A few days before this issue went to press, Harry Dexter White was a mysterious figure of shadowy substance. The events he took part in, the offices he had held, the political furor caused by the dropping of his name were far more tangible than White himself. LIFE'S reconstruction of the man began logically in our own biographical files and in a 1944 copy of Who's Who in America. Little was gained from these sources, and queries went to our bureaus in Boston, where he was born and had gone to school and college, and of course in Washington. where he had held his government posts. White's contacts in these places -- caretakers, neighbors, officials -- turned up further leads and the work of filling in the vague outlines spread to San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta and Appleton, Wis. where White had taught economics at Lawrence Col. lege in the '30s. Birth records, immigration records (to de- termine when his parents had come to the U.S.), old city directories (to check various moves made by White and his family) -- all these possible sources were gone over for new information. The portrait of Harry Dexter White grew until LIFE had a new file 40,000 words long.

Pictures, too, played a big part in unraveling the mystery. Correspondents in the field produced the high school picture of White (left) and a photograph taken when he was an economics instructor at Harvard. Because there was so little in our picture morgue listed under White, Harry Dexter, researchers began hunting under headings like Morgenthau and Vinson and Bretton Woods for negatives showing White with important associates or at important events. Here and there, now playing volleyball seven years ago, now among the leaders of a conference, appeared the face of White.

When LIFE'S 50 editorial detectives (including reporters, deskmen, film editors, writers and TIME correspondents in the Washington bureau who had worked straight through two nights to meet LIFE'S deadline) had finished with their extensive digging, we had in hand the portrait of Harry Dexter White which appears on pages 29 -- 35.



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