1945/10/08 — Cover photograph featuring General Robert Eichelberger is credited to the U.S. Navy

Contents of this issue are as follows:

THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • The Tokyo Express to Hiroshima – Photographs by J.R. Eyerman
  • Editorial: Urgent Business
  • “Paddy” Devereux Greets His Father
  • The “Europa” Returns
  • Mass Murderess of Belsen – Woman leader of Nazi Guards
  • Baseball Season Ends in Argument
  • CLOSE-UP:

  • J. Arthur Rank by Francis Sill Wickware
  • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • The Waldorf-Astoria – 8 pages
  • RELIGION:

  • Jewish New Year in Berlin
  • THEATER:

  • Bambi Lynn of Brooklyn Dances on Broadway
  • ART:

  • The Pacific War – American Artists Record the Battles Across the Big Ocean
  • EDUCATION:

  • Educating Hitler Youth – Americans teaching them Democracy
  • MODERN LIVING:

  • Fur Hats
  • MOVIES:

  • “The House on 92nd Street”
  • SCIENCE:

  • Texas Raises First U.S. Silk
  • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Frank Lloyd Wright ‘s New Art Museum
  • LIFE’s Reports: How the World Didn’t End by Claude Stanush
  • LIFE Goes to a Grape Crush
  • Miscellany: Corporal Rahaman’s Pay
  • Full-page color ad for Pan-Cake Make-Up from Max Factor Hollywood features a large color image of Judy Garland promoting “The Harvey Girls”
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