1939/07/17 -- Cover featuring Lord Halifax is credited to Margaret Bourke-White

Contents of this issue are as follows:

THE WEEK'S EVENTS:

  • Italy Celebrates the Scientific Genius of Leonardo da Vinci
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • Theodore Roosevelt Takes His Place on Mount Rushmore
  • First Autogiro Mail Service Starts
  • Federal Theater Drops Curtain
  • Pilot Escapes Death by Electrocution after Crash into Power Line
  • Lord Halifax Eats Lunch on Train to Geneva
  • Irish Terrorists Throw Bombs in London
  • Henry Ford Sets Out to "Revolutionize Farming" with new Lightweight Tractor

    • THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • The Telephone Company
  • The Spanish "Army" in France - 350,000 Loyalist Refugees Fill Camps

    • MOVIES:

  • Movie Girls Fight Hard to Screen "The Women"
  • THE WIZARD OF OZ - 2 pages with some text but mostly full-color scene shots from the movie, 8 photos in all
  • VIVIEN LEIGH AS SCARLETT O'HARA in Gone With the Wind - A single page,most of it filled with large photo of Leigh at the bottom of the staircase as Scarlett

    • Theater:

  • New Musical Shows on Broadway: "From Vienna" and "Streets of Paris"

    • ART:

  • New Editions of Best Modern Sculpture Sell for $10 Up

    • HORTICULTURE:

  • Roses

    • NATURAL HISTORY:

  • Childless Texas Couple Adopt Baby Chimpanzees

    • MODERN LIVING

  • Northerners Succumb to Summer Suits

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures -- The Navy Rounds the Horn
  • LIFE Goes Bicycling in Maine
  • Pictures to the Editors