1939/07/03 -- Cover featuring Swimsuits in Fashion is credited to George Strock

Contents of this issue are as follows:

THE WEEK'S EVENTS:

  • An American Admiral and Forty Warships Stand Guard on Asia's War
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • Tom Dewey, Golfer, Takes a Drink
  • Colleges Turn Out Honorary "Doctors"
  • TVA Becomes Master of Tennessee Power
  • Tallulah Bankhead Lobbies "Uncle John" for the Federal Theatre Project .... While 12,000 Actors Brawl in New York
  • Sidney Wooderson Loses a Race
  • Price Edward Cuts Up
  • Nijinsky Dances Again in a Swiss Insane Asylum
  • A Republican Senator and a Democratic Representative Debate National Policy
  • Germany Enters Race for Colonies in Antarctica

    • THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • LIFE Goes to the New York World's Fair - 16 pages

    • RELIGION:

  • Salvation Army Cadets Get Commissions to Carry on "Soup and Soap" Evangelism

    • SCIENCE:

  • Black Light Enables Traffic to Move in Black-Outs

    • ART:

  • Bowery Bum Gets Benefit Show by Noted Artists

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Hollywood Starlets Cause Red Menace in Beach Clothes

    • MOVIES:

  • "Bachelor Mother" starring Ginger Rogers

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures -- Blumenfeld's Are the Tops
  • Pictures to the Editors