1949/06/06 -- Cover photograph featuring "Summer Playclothes" with Ronnie Porter is credited to Lisa Larsen.

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

  • The Armed Services Battle It Out
  • Editorial: The New '49ers
  • Forrestal's Body is Carried to Arlington
  • Photographer Records Biography of a Tornado
  • Another Reuther is Ambushed
  • Rita Hayworth Marries Aly Khan -- 3 full pages of coverage, mostly photos
  • Two Vermonters in Jail for Debt

    • ARTICLE:

  • Chaos in Asia by Max Ways

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Pancho Gonzales by Gene Farmer

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Arthritis

    • MOVIES:

  • Red Virtue Routs Western Villainy
  • "Sorrowful Jones" with Bob Hope

    • MEDICINE:

  • Surgery in Color Television

    • ART:

  • Niagara Falls

    • EDUCATION:

  • An Old School Celebrates

    • FASHION:

  • Tops for Shorts

    • INDUSTRY:

  • "Shoe Wizard's" House

    • NATURE:

  • Busy Bird Hospital

    • ENTERTAINMENT:

  • Gypsy Joins the "Carny" featuring Gypsy Rose Lee

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • LIFE's Reports: Best-Seller Aftermath by Betty Smith
  • Speaking of Pictures: Hippo Haven on Banks of the Old Kazinga
  • Letters to the Editors
  • LIFE Visits Washington's Luckiest Kids
  • Miscellany: Radio Hat

    • Notable advertising includes: Esther Williams for Lux Soap, 1/8 page ad from the Exacta Time Corporation for the Official Babe Ruth Wristwatch with a photo of the watch and a small image of the Bambino*, Spencer Tracy and Deborah Kerr in Edward, My Son, and a Chesterfield Cigarettes ad featuring Bob Hope on back cover. NOTE: An * denotes ad is smaller than a full-page.