1947/07/14 -- Cover featuring Elizabeth Taylor is credited to Robert Landry

Contents of this issue are as follows:
THE WEEK'S EVENTS:

  • Catholics Hold Huge Congress in Canada
  • Editorial: The Break in Europe
  • Texans Watch Tornado Approach Their Town
  • Japanese War Criminals
  • Escaped Steer Terrifies Neighborhood
  • Herriot Squeezes Into French Academy Uniform
  • ARTICLES:

  • An Afternoon at Ascot by Noel F. Busch
  • How Russia Rules Poland by Arthur Bliss Lane
  • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • June Wedding - Photographs for LIFE by Nina Leen
  • TRANSPORTATION:

  • The Executive Bus
  • SCIENCE:

  • Sunburn
  • FOOD:

  • Summer Cooking
  • DANCE:

  • Mother Zorina Leaps
  • ART:

  • Painter's Summer
  • EDUCATION:

  • How Not to Ride a Bicycle in Traffic
  • MOVIES:

  • "Ivy" featuring Joan Fontaine
  • Elizabeth Taylor - At 15, She Has Grown into a Top Ingenue - Just a single page
  • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Greeks Still Look Like Their Forbears
  • People - Includes large photo of Evita Peron, smaller photo of muscle-man Steve Reeves
  • LIFE's Party: Americans Live High in Rome
  • Miscellany: The Great Oregon Beauty Controversy
  • 2-page color ad for Calvert Collins with large illustration by Tom Lovell
  • Colorful full-page Budweiser ad "Fine Beer Has Beena Symbol of Hospitality for 8,000 Years" with five horizontal scenes through the ages