1938/11/08 -- ITEM DESCRIPTION:
Volume 2, Number 23 of LOOK Magazine, from the early days when it consisted entirely of photo-essays.

Paging through the issue some of the contents are as follows:

  • "Twenty Years of WAR -- 1918-1938" -- 6-pages highlighting problems over the past twenty years ending with a half page of text titled "What Next, Mr. Chamberlain?" with a photo of Neville Chamberlain
  • "Lucius Beebe ... America's Leading Snob" -- 2-pages
  • "Experts DebateL The Birth Control Issue" 4-pages of Margaret Sanger & Dr. Eric M. Matsner vs. the Rev. Edward Lodge Curran
  • "A Glamour Girl Goes to Bed" -- 2-pages of Joyce Matthews
  • "He Will Dive to His Death If He Misses This Small Tank" 3-pages depicting Capt. Jimmy Jamison making a 110-foot dive into 14" wide pool below.
  • "$30-Every-Thursday! Is It Utopia or Is California Making SUCKERS Out of Old Foks" -- 2-pages
  • "Let's All Buy a New Car" -- 2-pages of cartoons by Jefferson Machamer
  • "Mickey Rooney ... He's Only 17 But He Gets More Fan Mail Than Gable" -- half a page
  • "From the Family Album of Bette Davis -- These Pictures Tell Her Story, Year by Year -- 4-pages
  • "Should You Pick Up Hitchhikers?"
  • "Wrestling Has Jitterbugs, Too" -- 1-1/2 pages of wrestling fans
  • Thomas E. Dewey -- 2-pages
  • "From the Secret Files of a Press Agent -- Come These Uncensored Pictures of Stars" -- 1-1/2 pages including pics of Norma Shearer, Paulette Goddard, Ginger Rogers, Mr. & Mrs. Spencer Tracy (Louise Treadwell), Joan Blondell
  • "Latest News of the Quints: -- 2-pages of Dionne Quintuplets
  • "Anne Morrow Lindbergh Describes Her Flying Thrills in Her New Book...Listen! The Wind" -- 2-pages
  • "LOOK's New Movie Review -- There Goes My Heart" starring Virginia Bruce, Fredric March, Patsy Kelly -- 2-pages
  • On the back cover is a color ad for Suez starring Tyrone Power, Loretta Young and Annabella
  • Plus several other features.
  • 60 pages total including the covers.