Pg… 19 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Potato Chippers have a Convention Pg… 24 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: The Communists Occupy Peiping Pg… 26 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Conveyor Belt is Planned as “Railroad of Tomorrow” Pg… 28 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Lassie, and Rest of M–G–M, Get Good News Pg… 30 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Editorial: Belief in America Pg… 35 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: The King Keeps Ulster Pg… 36 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Jewel Thief is Caught After Stealing $500,000 Pg… 72 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: France Sends 49 Boxcars to the U.S. Pg… 101 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Indiana Coed Serves in Legislature Pg… 42 The War Memoirs of Winston Churchill, Volume II, Part IV Pg… 87 Story of a Fighter Photographs for LIFE by Leonard McCombe Pg… 66 “Saraband” Pg… 69 Pigeons are People Pg… 79 “Lend an Ear” Pg… 84 Some Early Americans Pg… 97 Costume Clothes Pg… 2 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Letters to the Editors Pg… 14 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Speaking of Pictures: Wing Lights Trace HelicopterTake–Off Pg… 107 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: LIFE Goes to a Ball in Harlem Pg… 115 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Miscellany: Snore Stoppers