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