1944/08/07 -- Cover photograph featuring Geraldine Fitzgerald is credited to Philippe Halsman

Contents of this issue are as follows:

THE WEEK'S EVENTS:

  • Battle of the Hedgerows - New U.S. Offensive in Normandy
  • Editorial: World 'Realism' 1944
  • First Negro Votes in Texas Democratic Primary
  • Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. Buried - 2 pages
  • Explosion in Germany - An attempt on Hitler's life as bomb explodes in Hitler's headquarters in Berchtsgarden on July 20 - 2 pages
  • Santayana
  • Mexican Soldier's Disgrace

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Senator Byrd of Virginia by Gerald W. Johnson

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Movie Illusions - Hollywood Technicians Create Reality Inside Studios - 9 pages packed with photos

    • BOOKS:

  • "I Never Left Home" by Bob Hope

    • MOVIE:

  • "Wilson" - 3-1/2 pages

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Backyard Cooking
  • Swedish Glass

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: A Baby's Afternoon from Bath to Bath
  • LIFE's Reports: The Mules of Myitkyina by Peggy Durdin
  • LIFE Calls on the Earl of Athlone
  • Pictures to the Editors