1939/11/13 -- Cover photograph featuring Claudette Colbert is by Alfred Eisenstaedt

Contents of this issue are as follows:

THE WEEK'S EVENTS:
U.S. Business Opens Great Barco Oil Fields in Columbia

  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • Japanese Sentry in Hawaii Demands Salute from Americans
  • Congress Kills Arms Embargo
  • Germans Picture Attack on Rosyth Naval Base
  • New York and San Francisco Fairs Close
  • A British Convoy Crosses the North Sea
  • Giant Snow Cruiser Comes to Grief

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • The Argentines - LIFE Looks South at a Great and Proud People

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Who's Who in the German High Command - German Generals including Keitel, Halder, Von Rundstedt, Von Bock

    • ART:

  • Peter Scott Is Best British Bird Painter

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • London Adapts Fashions to Blackouts
  • Dorothy Lamour 's Winter Sarong

    • RADIO:

  • "Information Please" is Made into Movie Short

    • THEATER:

  • Gertrude Lawrence Stars in "Skylark"

    • SPORTS:

  • Girls' Football

  • "Drums Along the Mohawk" starring cover subject Claudette Colbert and Henry Fonda

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Denis Conan Doyle 's Spirit Photographs
  • LIFE Calls on Helen Hayes
  • Pictures to the Editors