1939/10/09 -- Cover photograph featuring Kids Football is credited to Alfred Eisenstaedt

Contents of this issue are as follows:

THE WEEK'S EVENTS:

  • New War Fails to Panic Veterans of Old One
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • Queen Elizabeth Looks Over London's Air-Raid Precautions
  • Germany and Britain Present Conflicting Evidence on Plane vs. Battleship
  • Two British Flying Boats Rescue Crew of Torpedoed Tramp Steamer
  • Heroic Polish Defense of Westerplatte Ends as nazi Mop-up of Poland Begins
  • How the Germans Overran Poland in Four Weeks

    • CLOSE-UP

  • Edouard Daladier

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • The Low Countries - Belgium and The Netherlands Are ready to Right with Guns and Floods

    • MOVIES:

  • "Hollywood Calvalcade"

    • SPORTS:

  • Best Young Baseballers are Owned by Yankee Farm System

    • ART:

  • A Great Newspaper Builds a Great Art Museum - The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery

    • SCIENCE:

  • Technicians Design Model Rockets Hoping for Transatlantic Flight

    • RELIGION:

  • Four-year-old boy becomes Dalai Lama of Tibet

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Oldtime Country Square Dancing Returns to Fashion in Big Cities
  • Bunchy Necklaces Are Worn to Balance Bustles

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Marlene Dietrich Hits a New High in Movie Roughhouse
  • People
  • LIFE Goes to a Kids' Football Game
  • Pictures to the Editors