1950/08/28 -- Cover photograph featuring General Douglas MacArthur is credited to Stephens

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

  • A Vision Brings 80,000 to Necedah

    • Editorials:

  • Lessons from Combat
  • U.S. Civil Defense Lags
  • Loving Lion Greets Nightclub Patron
  • Atomic Handbook Becomes a Best Seller
  • Skyscraper Reaches the Top
  • "Wild Blue Yonder Boys" Salue GIs in Korea
  • The Brave Men of No Name Ridge by James Bell
  • Plane Makers Turn It On
  • An Iowa Town Dies a Slow Death

    • ARTICLES:

  • War and Politics by Ernest Havemann
  • The Gamble in Indo-China by Andre Laguerre

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Japan - A Bulwark in the Far East

    • THEATER:

  • Tent Opera

    • SCIENCE:

  • Stresses Made Visible

    • SPORTS:

  • Borscht Basketball

    • FASHION:

  • Dress or Coat

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Rescue Balloon

    • TELEVISION:

  • Mr. No Fixit

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Discovery of Old Film Add to Babe Ruth Legend - 2 full pages then another half page of stills from "Headin' Home"
  • LIFE Revisits the Ski Bums
  • Miscellany: Legends in Sculpture
  • Beautiful brightly colored 2-page ad for "The Black Rose" starring Tyrone Power, Orson Welles and Cecile Aubry
  • Full-page ad fior The Watchmakers of Switzerland is illustrated in color by Norman Rockwell (illustration is larger than half-page)