1947/10/06 -- Cover featuring Franklin Delano Roosevelt at 13 is courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library

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

  • Moscow Celebrates 800th Birthday - 7 pages
  • Editorial: Reform Is Sweeping the Cities
  • Pope and Monsignori Get Greetings Tangled
  • Europe Submits Its "Marshall Plan"
  • Kaiser-Frazer Success Surprises Detroit
  • The New Hungary Fetes the "Red Dean"

    • ARTICLE:

  • Cuba's Tin Pan Alley by Winthrop Sargeant

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • James V. Forrestal by Ernest Haverman

    • PICTORIAL ESSAYS:

  • Apples
  • The Boyhood Letters of Franklin D. Roosevelt

    • SPORTS:

  • U.S. Team Wins Polo Championship

    • RADIO:

  • Miniature Wrist Radio - U.S. Bureau of Standards Develops a Dick Tracy wrist transmitter which can broadcast messages for a mile

    • SCIENCE:

  • How Fat Is a Fat Man

    • RELIGION:

  • "The Greatest Man in the World" is about Albert Schweitzer

    • FASHION:

  • The Dress

    • ANIMALS:

  • Armadillos

    • MOVIES:

  • "The Long Night" starring Henry Fonda

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • LIFE's Reports: A Massacre in India by David Douglas Duncan

  • Speaking of Pictures: Agile Cameraman Records Rollercoaster Antics
  • Letters to the Editors
  • People -
  • Miscellany: Mexican Whirlers
  • LIFE Goes to the Warrenton Horse Show