1949/01/03 -- Cover photograph featuring Famous Baby Dwight D. Eisenhower is credited to Nina Leen.

Contents of this issue are as follows:
THE WEEK'S EVENTS:

  • A Great Photographer Takes a Last Look at Peiping

    • Editorials:

  • Forecast for '49
  • Challenge in Asia
  • New York Society Recalls Past in Gibson Girl Ball
  • Air Force Holes Maneuvers With Live Bombs

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Ana Pauker by Hal Lehrman

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Caribean Winter - Photographs for LIFE by Eliot Elisofon

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • The Keedoozle

    • THEATER:

  • Charles Boyer on Broadway

    • SPORTS:

  • Easy Ed Macauley of St. Louis - Includes full-page color photo showing Macauley, full-length, slam dunking

    • MOVIES:

  • The Paleface starring Bob Hope and Jane Russell

    • SCIENCE:

  • Ladybugs Eat Mealy Bugs

    • POETRY:

  • Robert Burns

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: These Babies Were Born to Famous People in 1949