1944/05/22 -- Cover featuring "Model Mother" is credited to Nina Leen

Contents of this issue are as follows:

THE WEEK'S EVENTS:

  • The Allies Advance in New Guinea
  • Editorial: Advice to the Republicans
  • Pacific Theater Souvenir
  • The British Commonwealth
  • Explosion in India
  • Four Poems on the Eve of Invasion by Joseph Auslander
  • Garden Party in Washington

    • ARTICLES:

  • Death of the Hangman by An Eyewitness - An American student was the sole eyewitness at killing of Reinhard Heydrich
  • The Gilberts & Marshalls by Commander Samuel Eliot Morison, USNR

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • The Mother of Parliaments

    • ART:

  • Airmen in the Aleutians

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Model Mothers

    • MOVIES:

  • "Gaslight"

    • SPORTS:

  • Pericles (race horse)

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Panorama of an Alaskan Glacier
  • LIFE's Reports: America Waits for the News by Roger Butterfield
  • LIFE Visits the Hatfields-McCoys
  • Pictures to the Editors