1939/05/29 -- Cover featuring Eleanor Roosevelt is credited to Mark Kauffman

Contents of this issue are as follows:

THE WEEK'S EVENTS:

  • The King and Queen Sit on an American Throne
  • The British Ambassador Holds His First Press Conference
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the Wolrd
  • Peru's Unbelievable Mother and Baby
  • Bayonets Gleam in Bloody Harlan County
  • Doctors Put Patients in "Frozen Sleep"
  • Rochester Gets Tryout of Federal Stamp Plan for Giving food to Needy
  • Navy Searchlights Play for New York as Sailors Take in Coney Island
  • Mr. Woodward Sees His Johnstown Lose Preakness to Maryland's Favorite Horse
  • The Shah of Iran Shows Off His Capital at Son's Wedding
  • CLOSE-UP:

  • Franco - A Dictator in Spite of Himself
  • ... and His Generals Who Won the Spanish War
  • THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Hyde Park - The President's Estate
  • THEATER:

  • Amateur Theater - U.S. Drama Flourishes Far From Broadway
  • ART:

  • Old Masters Worth $30,000,000 Go to New York Fair
  • SPORTS:

  • Maryland Schoolboys Crack Skulls and Shins at Lacrosse Game
  • NATURAL HISTORY:

  • A Stork Family Rears Its Young
  • MOVIE:

  • "The Puritan" - French Murder Film Runs into Censor Trouble
  • WORLD'S FAIR:

  • Soviet Worker Towers Over Fair
  • Expensive WPA Building Causes Ruckus
  • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures -- Cobina Wright is the "Most" Girl
  • People
  • LIFE Goes to a Children's Dancing Class
  • Pictures to the Editors