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1925/10 — Cover illustrated by Walter Beach Humphrey

Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

What My Religion Means to Me by Edgar A. Guest

The Squarehead — A story by R. de S. Horn and illustrated by Anton Otto Fischer

I’m the Champion Free-Rider of the World by Ellis Parker Butler and illustrated by Tony Sarg

A Gust of Wind Played a Curious Part in MacEvoy’s Career by Helen Christine Bennett

Clifford F. MacEvoy – A picture in photogravure

Chester T. Crowell and Family – Pictures in photogravure

It’s a Wise Father Who Can Answer His Own Child by Chester T. Crowell

The Hills of Home — A story by Nelis Gardner White and illustrated by Frederic Anderson

Do People Get On Your Nerves? by William S. Sadler, M.D.

Why I Stick to the Sticks by Robert Quillen

“In Such a Night” — A story by Agnes Sligh Turnbull

He Had to Build His Ladder Before He Could Climb It by George W. Gray

John Murray Anderson Has Been a Jack of All Trades by Mary B. Mullett

John Murray Anderson – A Portrait in Photogravure

James M. Kurn – A portrait in photogravure

The Puff of a Locomotive Is Music to His Ears by Edward Hungerford is about James M. Kurn

They Love Their Homes as Much as You Love Yours by Archibald Rutledge

How Uncle Sam Coins the Money You Spend by John T. Flynn

The Lost Tower of Rodondo — A story by Helen Topping Miller and illustrated by George Giguere

Behind the Scenes at WOR by Allan Harding

“The Way to Lift a Hundred Tons Is to Lift It With Your Head!” by Charles G. Muller

Such a Nice Old Man! — A story by Marion Poschman Valensi and illustrated by Herman Pfeifer

Seven Sides of Human Nature as a Great Detective Sees Them by William S. Dutton

The Closest Calls I Ever Had by E. Alexander Powell

You Can’t Travel Far by Treading on People’s Toes by Orline D. Foster

Discarded — A serialized novel (continued) by Inez Haynes Irwin and illustrated by J. Simont

Interesting People:

Mrs. Kate Walker by Jean Piper

Tom Grant by Mrs. Tom Grant

Thomas J. Shinners by Katherine Edelman

Mrs. Madeline Snyder by Nina S. Purdy

John L. Hanna by Robert H. Denehey

Prize winners: Things I Wish My Wife (Or Husband) Wouldn’t Do

Prize Contest Announcement: My Pet Peeve

The Family’s Money by C.C.J.

1925/09 — Cover illustrated by Penrhyn Stanlaws

Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

Imagination by Clarence Budington Kelland

He Couldn’t Get a Raise in Pay and So He Bought the Bank by Frank B. Copley

James H. Paul – A Portrait in Photogravure

Louis H. Tolhurst – Pictures in Photogravure

A Drop of Water Is His Movie Studio by John Monk Saunders about Louis H. Tolhurst

Will Deals with the Trouble-Maker — A Story by Fannie Kilbourne and illustrated by T.K. Hanna

Why Captain Neatherry Is Never Lonely by James C. Derieux

“Walk Right This Way, Ladies and Gentlemen!” by Helen Christine Bennett

Did You Ever Send a Letter and Wish You Had It Back?

Something Different — A story by Blanche Brace and illustrated by Norman Price

Why I Am Not Afraid to Die by Irving Bacheller

Irving Becheller – A portrait in photogravure

Rose Falls Bres – A portrait in photogravure

I Learned About Women from Law by Rose Falls Bres

The Wonders of Compressed Air by Harold Howland

What Your Finger Nails Tell the Manicure Girl by Susie Sexton

The Boy Who Jumped the Fence — A story by Florence Bingham Livingston and illustrated by Hanson Booth

Going Fast Does Not Always Mean Going Far by Neil M. Clark

“Captains Courageous” by George W. Gray is about deep-sea fisherman Daniel MacDonald

If Signs Meant Anything I Wouldn’t Be Writing This Now! by J. Frank Davis

The Water Bucket Baby — A baseball romance story by Jonathan Brooks and illustrated by Ray C. Strang

Dickey Made His Money Out of Mud by Harry A. Stewart

Are You the Master of Your Forks, The Captain of Your Spoons? by H.I. Phillips

Discarded — A serialized novel (continued) by Inez Haynes Irwin and illustrated by J. Simont

How Wild Animals Act in Tight Places by Archibald Rutledge

Interesting People:
Ernest Newton Bagg by Eva Joy Betterley

Mrs. R.C. Talbot-Perkins by Margaret Norris

Franz Kotrba by John A. Kuder

Prize Contest Announcement: The Most Embarrassing Thing That Ever Happened To Me

Prize winners: The Biggest “White Elephant” in My Collection

The Family’s Money

1925/07 — Cover illustrated by Davis

Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

The Ten Marks of an Educated Man by Albert Edward Wiggam

Thrilling Days in Dawson When the Klondike Rush Was On by Barrett Willoughby

“I Believe in Shooting Square With Man and God” by Harry A. Stewart

Charles Page – Photo in photogravure

Mrs. Kelly and Family – Pictures in photogravure

Oh, for a Million Mothers Like Mary Kelly! by William A. McGarry

Three Old-Timers — A story by Wilbur Hall and illustrated by Stockton Mulford

Give the Man You’d Like to Be a Look at the Man You Are by Edgar A. Guest

“It Was Me That Needed Tamin’–Not the Birds!” by William S. Dutton

Things I Wish My Wife Wouldn’t Do by H.B.D.

Scattergood Sums Up the Evidence — A story by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by Paul Meylan

How Cecil B. DeMille Works and What He Knows About Us by Mary B. Mullett

Cecil De Mille and Family – Picture on Photogravure

A.A. Schantz – Portrait in Photogravure

It Took Him 25 Years to Travel 150 Feet by Sherman Gwinn

Will Keeps His Eye on the Ball — A story by Fannie Kilbourne and illustrated by T.K. Hanna

I’m Still on the Sucker List But I Don’t Bite Any More by H.I. Phillips

What a Psychoanalyst Knows About You and Your Troubles by Keene Sumner

Blue Hyacinths — A story by Alice Garland Steele and illustrated by W.B. King

Obstacles Are the Biggest Bluffers in the World by Neil M. Clark

Adventures in Understanding: 11 – The Man Afraid David Grayson and illustrated by Thomas Fogarty

Babies and Bathing Girls Are the Favorites of Camera Fans by George W. Gray

Discarded – A serialized novel — Continued by Inez Haynes Irwin and illustrated by J. Simont

Interesting People:

William A. Hadley by Neil M. Clark

Freda Bliss by Henry Irving Shumway

Reverend Harry Caldwell by Betty Ross

Agnes Neylon by M.P. Clifford

Charles H. Grakelow by Sherman Gwinn

Prize winners: The Best Stroke of Luck I Ever Had

Prize Contest Announcement: Things I Wish My Wife (Or Husband) Wouldn’t Do

The Family’s Money by Mrs. W.J.M.

1918/03 — Cover illustrated by J. Knowles Hare

Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

Frontispiece: Illustrating “Julie–the Unconquerable” by Paul Julien Meylan

Why We Come Smiling Out of Hell by Private Peat

Sid Says: Moths don’t detroy treasures like these

Private Peat – A portrait in Alco Gravure

William Dudley Pelley – A portrait in Alco Gravure

Wanted–A Younger and More Practical Man — A story by William Dudley Pelley and illustrated by F.M. Gruger

Not for the Genius-But for the Average Man by Frederick W. Taylor with a note by Frank Barkley Copley

Peter Breaks Through His Shell – A love story by Holworthy Hall and illustrated by Clarence F. Underwood

How I Cured Myself of Being too Sensitive with illustration by Lejaren a Hiller

Why I Believe in Deciding Things Quickly by Al H. Woods

Elsie Ferguson – A portrait in Alco Gravure

E.P. Ripley – A portrait in Alco Gravure

Ripley’s Recipe: “Get a good wife–and win men’s loyalty” by B.C. Forbes

Jule–The Unconquerable — A love story by Howard Markle Hoke and illustrated by Paul Julien Meylan

The Joy of the Job by Edna Ferber

The Making of George Groton – A novel (continued) by Bruce Barton with illustrations by Paul Stahr

The Chances of Getting Killed or Hurt in This War by Mary B. Mullett

Williams Sees Herself as Others Saw Her — A story by Bertha A. Rich

When My Boy Comes – What a prospective father has been through since war was declared

Interesting People:

Clem Yore by Jack Lait

George H. Beach by N.B. Beasley

Emily Griffith by Marie La Due

William S. Olive by S.R. Winters

Prize Contest Announcement: The Most Tender, Gentle Thing I Ever Knew a Human Being to Do

Prize winners: What I Would Do If I Had My Life to Live Over

The Family’s Money by Myron T. Herrick

1918/01 — Cover illustrated by J. Knowles Hare

Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

Frontispiece: Illustrating “Aunt Julia” by M. Leone Bracker

Aunt Julia – The story of a thoroughbred by William Dudley Pelley and illustrated by M. Leone Bracker

What the War Has Done To Me by Harry Lauder

Omelets for Violets – A Fair Trade — a story by Ida M. Evans and illustrated by F. Graham Cootes

Some of My Best Friends Are– by Montague Glass, the experiences of a Jew among Gentiles

Montague Glass – As I Know Him by Barney Bernard

Mr. and Mrs. Montague Glass – A Portrait in Alco Gravure

Frank A. Vanderslip – A portrait in Alco Gravure

How We Decide When to Raise a Man’s Salary by B.C. Forbes

Through Clearing — A love story by Holworthy Hall and illustrated by R.M. Crosby

What to Do With a Bad Habit by James J. Walsh, M.D.

Chicago – The Glavor of the Cities Series by Jack Lait

The Quest of Gloria Harney — A story by Alexander Hull and illustrated by W.M. Berger

The Comic Side of Trouble by Bert Williams

Bert Williams – A portrait in Alco Gravure

Mrs. Bertha A. Rich – A portrait in Alco Gravure

The Business Woman and the Powder puff by Bertha A. Rich

Prize Winning Stories: What I Have Seen Booze Do

Prize Contest Announcment: What I Am Getting Out of the War

The Making of George Groton — A novel by Bruce Barton and illustrated by Paul Stahr

Sid Says: What goes on in your head is older than you think

Interesting People:

Ralph A. Hayes by Fred C. Kelly

William F. Nevitt by Albert Sidney Gregg

Gay Zenola MacLaren by May Stanley

The Rev. F.R. Wedge by Lloyd Alan Lehbras

The Family’s Money

1917/10 — Cover illustrated by J. Knowles Hare

Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

Frontispiece: Illustrating “771″ by Clarence F. Underwood

My Creed – The way to happiness as I have found it – by Mary Roberts Rinehart

Mary Roberts Rinehart as She Appears to Bob Davis by Robert H. Davis

The Importance of Mr. and Mrs. Dinsmore — A Story by John Barton Oxford and illustrated by F. Graham Cootes

Dropping the Easy Job and Tackling the Tough One by H. Thompson Rich

Henry L. Doherty – Portrait in Alco Gravure

Mary Roberts Rinehart – A Portrait in Alco Gravure

Foolish Things The War May Stop by Fred C. Kelly

What Salary Do You Need to Make You Happy?

“771″ – The story of a Cinderella without a Prince – by Mabel Nelson Thurston and illustrated by Clarence F. Underwood

How I Advertised Myself into a Better Job

The Four Square Man — a story by William Dudley Pelley and illustrated by Douglas Duer

A Clown Who Build a Skyscraper with Laughs by Fred Stone

Small inset as part of Fred Stone article: Gentleman Jim Corbett’s Tribute to Fred Stone by James J. Corbett

Fred Stone – A Portrait in Alco Gravure

Arthur Train – A portrait in Alco Gravure

Have You a Friend Who is a Lawyer by Arthur Train

A Severe Attack of the Gerties A Baseball Story by Hugh S. Fullerton and illustrated by W.E. Hill

Sid Says: It’s the encores people call for that make lying difficult

Places of Retirement by David Grayson and illustrated by Thomas Fogarty

Fanny Herself by Edna Ferber and illustrated by M. Leone Bracker

Interesting People:

Frank W. Woolworth by Ada Patterson

Aaron I. Dotey by Alfred Grunberg

Mrs. Clara Pressler by W.W. Major

Henry B. Gentry by Don Herold

Prize Contest Winners: The Man Who Helped Me Most and What He Taught Me

Some Windows That Sell Goods by Dale Carnegie

Letter froma Reader by mary Dana-Hicks Prang

Suggestions to Old Folks

Are You Using Your Wife’s Business Sense? by Alfred Grunberg

Bad Teeth vs. Good Health by Edwin F. Bowers, M.D.

Prize Contest Announcement: What I Have Seen Booze Do

The Family’s Money

Getting Ahead by Henry C. Walker

1918/02 — Cover illustrated by J. Knowles Hare

Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

Frontispiece: Illustrating “New York and Return” by Clarence F. Underwood

The Sword of Jesus by Harold Bell Wright is the first article by Wright written for any magazine

Harold Bell Wright – A Portrait in Alco Gravure

The Mayo Brothers – Portraits in Alco Gravure

“Dr. Will and Dr. Charlie” – The Story of the Mayo Brothers by Mary B. Mullett

New York and Return – A Love Story by Holworthy Hall and illustrated by Clarence F. Underwood

What I Have Learned from Abe Lincoln – Illustration by Paul Meylan

Bud Jones–Small Advertiser — A Story by William Dudley Pelley and illustrated by Norman Price

Future Life Contest — Top 5 Prizewinners

Edison – The “Original Man from Missouri” — by William Maxwell with a latter from Arthur Brisbane, illustrated with a photograph

Thomas A. Edison – Portrait in Alco Gravure

Ina Claire – Portrait in Alco Gravure

Plays Worth Seeing This Winter by Walter prichard Eaton

A Kind of Dog-Gone Christian – A Story by Arthur Preston Hankins with illustrations by F.E. Schoonover

The Making of George Groton — A novel by Bruce Barton and illustrated by Paul Stahr

Sid Says: If you aren’t fighting–are you worth fighting for?

Abner Larned, Who Knows How to Sell Things by N.B. Beasley

The Crisis in Room 25 – A dog story by Samuel A. Derieux with illustrations by J. Knowles Hare

Interesting People:

May Peterson by Betty Shannon

Frank Brown by Carl Gregg Doney

Leo Feist by E.M. Wickes

Charles H. Purdy by Bertha Snow Adams

Prize Contest Announcement: Why I Like My Job

Mistaken For My Wife’s Son by George H. McClellan

Getting Ahead

The Family’s Money

1925/06 — Cover illustrated by M.L. McMillan

Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

Looking Forward to the Great Adventure by Booth Tarkington

“It Pays to Hang On” by Harry A. Stewart

Emerson Carrey – A portrait in photogravure

Fannie Kilbourne – A portrait in photogravure

Fannie Kilbourne is “A Great Little Self-Starter” by Allison Gray

The Laughing House — A Story by Wallace Smith with illustrations by Stockton Mulford

Captain Whitelaw Has Raised Hundreds of Wrecks from the Sea by Magner White

A World Famous Singer Whose Parents Were Slaves by Mary B. Mullett is about Roland Hayes

Stuff of Youth — A story by Ruth Cross with Illustrations by J. Simont

Good Morning, Judge by John Monk Saunders and illustrated by Tony Sarg

The Top Is All That Can Stop You If You Keep Going Up by Neil M. Clark

Carl R. Gray – A portrait in photogravure

Frederick P. Keppel – A portrait in photogravure

Keppel’s Job Is to Pour Oil on Troubled Waters by Ralph Hayes

The Minister Who Thought He Was a Failure — A Story by Nelia Gardner White with illustrations by Herman Pfeifer

I Went to the Klondike On My Father’s Shoulders! by Barrett Willoughby

Adventures in Understanding: 10 — The Adventure of the Shabby Man by David Grayson with illustrations by Thomas Fogarty

How Much Exercise Is Enough for You? by Arthur A. McGovern

Excess Baggage by Ellis Parker Butler

We Americans Buy Billions of Flowers a Year by Frank B. Copley

“That’s What Homes Are For!” — A story by Alice Garland Steele with illustrations by T.D. Skidmore

Every Job Is a Dare by Wheeler McMillen

Thrilling Feats of the Men Who Fight Fires by Sherman Gwinn

A Veteran Kennel Man Tells About His Most Wonderful Dogs by William S. Dutton

Queer Things People Take to a Picture Framer by Norman E. White

Discarded — A novel (continued) by Inez Haynes Irwin and illustrated by J. Simont

Everybody Hates a Bad Driver by Robert Chancellor

Interesting People:

Mrs. Anna Nott Shook by Betty Shannon

Hans and Henry Fuhrer by Emma Mauritz Larson

Carl Canova by G.W.B. Witten

Prize Winning Entries: My Favorite Season

Prize Contest Announcement: The Biggest “White Elephant” in My Collection

The Family’s Money by Mrs. E.G.H.

1925/05 — Cover illustrated by Anderson

Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

Discarded — Part 1 of a serialized novel by Inez Haynes Irwin with illustrations by J. Simont

Pick Your Boss With Care by Keene Sumner

R.E. Reeves and Family – Pictures in photogravure

Harvey C. Miller – A portrait in Photogravure

Harvey Miller Starts Where Other Men Quit by William A. McGarry

Derickson’s Gagoo — A Story by Conrad Richter and illustrated by Ralph Pallen Coleman

A Haven for Souls in the World’s Money Market by Frank B. Copley

Adventures in Understanding: 9 — Jonas by David Grayson and illustrated by Thomas Fogarty

How It Feels to be Psychoanalyzed by Lucian Cary

Exit Eglantine! — A Story by Blanche Brace and illustrated by G. Patrick Nelson

Blanche Bates Gives Her Secret of Happiness by Mary B. Mullett

Blanche Bates – A portrait in photogravure

John F. Queeny – A portrait in photogravure

“It’s Dangerous to be Too Good a Loser!” by Harry A. Stewart

“Don’t Go to Any Trouble” a story by Margaret Culkin Banning and illustrated by T.D. Skidmore

Does Your World End at the Foot of Your Own Street? by Neil M. Clark

“It’s a Tough Job, But Somebody’s Got to Swing It” by John Monk Saunders

His Highness, My Dog by H.I. Phillips

Sentenced to Six Months — A Story by Dean L. Heffernan with illustrations by Forrest C. Crooks

The Romantic Story of Buttons by John Singleton

He Has Learned About People–From Shoes by William S. Dutton

How Tremendous Blocks of Granite and Cut from the Vermont Hills by Allan Harding

My Six Steps to Self-Mastery by W.L. George

Plan Your Yard As Carefully As You Do Your House by John Howe

Jen Starts All Over Again — A Story by Nelia Gardner White and illustrated by Herman Pfeifer

“I Can’t See People Smile, So I Like to Hear Them Laugh!” by Helen Christine Bennett

The World That Gets Up When You Go To Bed by Charles A. David with drawings by the author

Interesting People:

Grace Denton by Mildred Harrington

Henry Coppinger by Joe Hugh Reese

Thomas V. Miller by R.H. Denehey

,li>Mrs. Cora Scovil by Gene Donald

J.T. Genn by Louis E. Childers

Top 3 Prize Winners for “The Best-Loved Person I Ever Knew”

Prize Contest Announcement: The Happiest Day I Ever Spent

The Family’s Money by Mrs. G.C.G.

1945/05/19 — Cover credited to Gray-O’Reilly

Contents as follows:
FICTION:

Dinner for Two by Ann Napier with illustration by Wendell Kling

The Evolution of a Tyrant by John Randolph Phillips and illustrated by John Pike

Audition by Dawn Powell and illustrated by Ben Hur Baz

Sentimental Week End — Part 2 of 3 — by Elizabeth Dunn with illustration by William Pachner

Second Chance by Norman Katkov and illustrated by Lou Cunette

The Word — The Short Short Story — by Elizabeth Lyons with illustration by Nathan Machtey

ARTICLES:

Injustice in the Courtroom by Attorney General Francis Biddle

These Are Americans by Quentin Reynolds

Wanna Pick a Lock? by The Great Zadma as told to Jule Mannix

Why You Don’t Get Meat by W.B. Courtney

Dancing Master by Kyle Crichton about Gene Kelly – Kelly appears to have bright future as producer-director-actor … after he leaves the Navy

Time Without Years by William Beebe with illustration by Francis Chase

For Services Rendered by Flora Murray

How to Get Married by Alexandra S. Potts

DEPARTMENTS:

Keep Up With the World by Freling Foster

Wing Talk by Robert De Vore

The Heroes – A Gallery of United Nations Patriots – No. 30 – Lieutenant Colonel Frederick W. Okie

The Week’s Work by Amy Porter

Editorials: Peace Without Passion – Lend-Leasing Labor – Those Six “British” Votes

1945/07/21 — Cover featuring Major General Norman T. Kirk credited to Jerry Cooke

Contents as follows:
FICTION:

Let’s Go Sweetheart by Norman Katkov and illustrated by Dun Roman

Rehearsal for Love — The Short Short Story by Jean Kinkead with illustration by John Collins

Beginner’s Luck by Ernest Lehman and illustrated by Jay Hyde Barnum

The Carnal Room by Jessamyn West and illustrated by William Meade Prince

Man and Boy by Frank O’Rourke and illustrated by Frank Golden

Odds Against the Girl — Conclusion of Serial by W.R. Burnett and illustrated by C.C. Beall

ARTICLES:

The Jungle Is Beaten by Walter Davenport

Swindler’s Paradise by Lester Velie

That They May Live! by Major General Norman T. Kirk, the Surgeon General of the Army with paintings from the Abbott Collection

MacArthur — The Story of a Great American Soldier — Part 2 of 2 by Herbert Asbury and Frank Gervasi

Fantastic Ferriss by Roger Birtwell is about Red Sox Dave Ferriss

Folies Bergere by Arthur Gordon

Revolution in Cotton by J.D. Ratcliff

DEPARTMENTS:

Keep Up With the World by Freling Foster

Wing Talk by Frederick R. Neely

The Heroes – A Gallery of United Nations Patriots – No. 39: Tech Sgt. Torger D. Tokle by George Creel

Your Life Tomorrow by David O. Woodbury

The Week’s Work by Amy Porter

Editorial: No Tags, No Gags, No Labels

1957/06/10 – Front cover features U.S. Open defending champion Cary Middlecoff

Baseball: Gloom Here–Joy There by Roy Terrell about the season at the one-quarter mark

Spectacle: The Queen’s Plate by Horace Sutton and Dan Weiner about Canada’s ‘Kentucky Derby’

Sam Wins a Duel in the Sun by Kenneth Rudeen – Sam Hanks wins the Indianapolis 500

Preview: The U.S. Open by Herbert Warren Wind, to be held at the Inverness Club, Toledo, Ohio plus article about Harry Vardon

The Winners! by Jo Ahern about the American Sportswear Design Awards

How You Can Play Better Tennis by William F. Talbert and J. Donald Budge with drawings by Ed Vebell

The Upper Crust by James Ramsey Ullman about mountain climbing

Sport in Art: “The Wolf and the Fox Hunt” by Peter Paul Rubens in full color spread across most of two pages with text at the bottom of the page

Plus Departments containing semi-regular features

1939/03/06 — Cover photograph featuring Tallulah Bankhead is credited to Vandamm Studios

Contents of this issue are as follows:

THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

Golden Gate Exposition Opens with Wild West Wallop

LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World

The King of Egypt’s Sister to Marry the Shah of Iran’s Son

Harry Hopkins Boom for President Starts in Native Iowa

Pope Pius is Buried in St. Peter’s

New York Nazis Beat Up Jew at Bund Meeting

“Mein Kampf” Is Published in Full for U.S. Readers

British Destroyer Is Repaired at Gibralter

German Battleship Is Launched at Hmaburg

PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

Fascism in America – Like Communism It Masquerades as Americanism – 7 pages

CLOSE-UP:

Heywood Broun

SCIENCE:

Camelliams: The South’s Most Aristocratic Bloom Is Yankee Favorite

Rats Are Driven Crazy by Insoluable Problems

SPORTS:

Florida Gives Disbarred Jockey a Second Chance

THEATER:

“The Little Foxes” – Tallulah Bankhead Has Her First U.S. Hit

MOVIES:

“Cafe Society” with Madeleine Carroll and Fred MacMurray

The First Actress of the Screen Dons a Wig and Plays an Empress – Photo of Bette Davis in “Juarez”

OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

Letters to the Editors

Speaking of Pictures: Victorians Loved Rogers Sculpture

LIFE Covers the Miami Waterfront

Pictures to the Editors

Color ad featuring Shirley Temple in The Little Princess is on the inside front cover

Full-page black & white ad with huge image of Charles Boyer and Irene Dunne in “Love Affair”

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

1945/10/08 — Cover photograph featuring General Robert Eichelberger is credited to the U.S. Navy

Contents of this issue are as follows:

THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

The Tokyo Express to Hiroshima – Photographs by J.R. Eyerman

Editorial: Urgent Business

“Paddy” Devereux Greets His Father

The “Europa” Returns

Mass Murderess of Belsen – Woman leader of Nazi Guards

Baseball Season Ends in Argument

CLOSE-UP:

J. Arthur Rank by Francis Sill Wickware

PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

The Waldorf-Astoria – 8 pages

RELIGION:

Jewish New Year in Berlin

THEATER:

Bambi Lynn of Brooklyn Dances on Broadway

ART:

The Pacific War – American Artists Record the Battles Across the Big Ocean

EDUCATION:

Educating Hitler Youth – Americans teaching them Democracy

MODERN LIVING:

Fur Hats

MOVIES:

“The House on 92nd Street”

SCIENCE:

Texas Raises First U.S. Silk

OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

Letters to the Editors

Speaking of Pictures: Frank Lloyd Wright ’s New Art Museum

LIFE’s Reports: How the World Didn’t End by Claude Stanush

LIFE Goes to a Grape Crush

Miscellany: Corporal Rahaman’s Pay

Full-page color ad for Pan-Cake Make-Up from Max Factor Hollywood features a large color image of Judy Garland promoting “The Harvey Girls”

1941/03/03 — Cover photograph featuring Model and Manikin is credited to Walter Sanders

Contents of this issue are as follows:

THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

Roosevelt’s New Deal Sends an Ambassador to Britain’s New Dealers

LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World

A Frenchman Sheds Tears of Grief As His Country’s Flags Are Exiled to Africa

Greeks Push on in Albania

British Capture Tobruch

Fort Sill Welcomes an Officer and His Bride

Churchill’s Daughter Makes Maiden Speech

Income Tax: 8,000,000 Americans File First Returns

CLOSE-UP:

General Sir Archibald Percival Wavell by Harry Zinder

PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

Australia’s War Effort Forces Continent to Grow Up Industrially

BOOKS:

“Out of the Night” — Part 2 by Jan Valtin

MEDICINE:

Pain

ART:

Diego Rivera ’s New Mural Depicts Pan-American Unity – includes 4 full pages of color reproductions in the center of the issue

MODERN LIVING:

Model Is Cast in Plaster to Make Manikin Mold

MOVIES:

Veronica Lake – 3 pages though ads make it more like 2 pages does include a full-page black & white photo of lake, plus 5 other shots of Lake from the time of “I Wanted Wings”

SPORTS:

Table Tennis

NIGHT CLUB:

New York Clubs Offer Roughhouse & Satire

OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

Letters to the Editors

Speaking of Pictures: Blizzard Sweeps Donner Pass

LIFE’s Reports

LIFE’s Pictures: An Index

LIFE Goes to an Atzor Party

Pictures to the Editors

Full-page ad for Orson Welles in “Citizen Kane” (“It’s Terrific!”)

Pan American Coffee Bureau full-page color ad includes illustration b J.C. Leyendecker

1941/02/10 — Cover photograph featuring New British Ambassador Lord Halifax is credited to Time, Inc.

Contents of this issue are as follows:

THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

Mussolini Takes a Bad Licking in Africa – 7 pages

LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World

American Bombers Take off for Britain from Newfoundland Base

Hearst’s Fabulous Art Goes at Bargain Prices

Lana Turner and Deanna Durbin Are Belles of President’s Birthday Ball – 2 pages includes full page shot of Durbin dancing with William Knudsen

Bombed London Railway Is Remade as Good as New in Four Hours

Socialite Fishermen Relax at Quarterdeck Club on Biscayne Bay

Inside Wartime Germany – Part 2 by William L. Shirer

CLOSE-UP

Lord Halifax by Carl Joachim Friedrich

PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

LIFE Shows How to Fire a 75-mm. Field Gun – 8 pages

SCIENCE:

Earthquakes – Earth’s Crust & Ice Balls Break in Same Pattern

ART:

Spindletop – Great Texas Oil Gusher is Painted for LIFE by Alexandre Hogue

EDUCATION:

Ynching Is No. 1 Christian University in China

OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

Letters to the Editors

LIFE’s Pictures: An Index

LIFE’s Reports

Speaking of Pictures: Book Match Covers

LIFE Goes to a Hexing Party

Pictures to the Editors

1956/12/26 –

Cover cartoon is “Of Three We Sing” by Amadee featuring Al Lopez up top with new MLB managers Kerby Farrell, Bob Scheffing and Jack Tighe below

Headline of issue “Major Leagues Shape ‘Disaster Plan’ – Players’ Pool to Be Set Up by Each Loop – Victim Club Could Choose as Many as Three Men from Every Rival Team”

Eddie Robinson to 7th American League team

“How Much ‘Stretch’ in Pitcher’s Arm? – Konstanty Holds Record with 74 Games for Phils in ‘50″ with Lou Darvas cartoon featuirng Jim Konstanty, Fred Marberry and Hoyt Wilhelm

“Jackie Figures He’ll Hit Better Next Year as Every-Day Giant” with small photo of Jackie Robinson

“From The Sporting News to Wall Street Journal: Kuenn on Bank Job to Learn About Investing” featuring photos of Harvey Kuenn

Hall of Famer George Sisler Named Full-Time Buc Batting Coach

Small article with small photo notes Phil Rizzuto to return to Yankees as TV-Radio Announcer

Part 2 of 2 — PEE WEE … PRIDE OF FLATBUSH … Dodgers Shortstop Since ‘40 and ‘Captain of the Team’” second of 2 part Pee Wee Reese feature

Necrology: Obituatry for former N.L. umpire Ziggy Sears

Plus, believe it or not, much more! Including several articles covering many other players, usually at least something from each team; winter ball coverage; The separately numbered 8-page “The All-Sports News” section covering football and other sports

26 pages plus 8-page “The All-Sports News” section for 34 pages total.

1891/11 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

Italian Old Masters – Michelangelo Buonarotti by W. J. Stillman

Izaak Walton From a Painting by George H. Boughton

Southern Womanhood as Affected by the War by Wilbur Fisk Tillett

A Great German Artist — Adolf Menzel by Carl Marr

Notes by Other American Artists by W. J. Baer and R. Blum

The Players by Brander Matthews

India by Florence Earle Coates

The Naulahka, a Story of East and West — Part 1 by Rudyard Kipling and Wolcott Balestier

Sursum Corda by Edith M. Thomas

What Are Americans Doing in Art? by Francis D. Millet

The Hunger-Strike by Elizabeth W. Fiske

How Old Folks Won the Oaks by J. J. Eakins

Bronte by Harriet Prescott Spofford

The Autobiography of a Justice of the Peace by Edgar Wilson Nye

Mazzini’s Letters to an English Family by Joseph Mazzini

In the Pauses of Her Song by Orelia Key Bell

A Rival of the Yosemite — King’s River Canon by John Muir

A Theft Condoned by Gertrude Smith

A Song for All Seasons by James Herbert Morse

The Food-Supply of the Future by W. O. Atwater

Folksong by Sylvester Baxter

James Russell Lowell by George E. Woodberry

The Sonnet by Edith Wharton

Lowell’s Americanism by Joel Benton with a letter from James Russell Lowell

The Major’s Appointment by Julia Schayer

The Choice by Owen Innsly

Music by A. Lampman

San Francisco Vigilance Committees by William T. Coleman

Topics of the Time:

Editorials on Finance. Michigan’s “Wild-Cat” Banks

Lowell’s Legacy to his Country

Corrupt Practices Legislation in 1891

An American Achievement in Art

Open Letters:

California’s Interest in Yosemite Reform by George G. Mackenzie

The Paris Opera by A. Vianesi

The Century Series of Pictures by an American Artist. Izaak Walton by Mrs. Schuyler van Rensselaer

George H Boughton by Mrs. Schuyler van Rensselaer

A Roman Catholic’s View of “Sister Dolorosa” by L. H.

In Lighter Vein:

Kitty, my Colleen by Patrick J. Coleman

The Prophets by C. P. Stetson

Brer Fox by Edward A. OIdham

Grace After Meat by Margaret Vandegrift

Ho for the Desert! by George E. de Steigner

My Old Skippers by Charles Henry Webb

The New Street-Sweeper by George Towner

1883/09 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

Frontispiece: Portrait of Robert Burns, from a miniature which belonged to his sister — Engraved by T. Johnson

Cape Cod by F. Mitchell

A Woman’s Reason — Part 8 by William Dean Howells

A Musk-Ox Hunt by Frederick Schwatka

The Tragedies of the Nests by John Burroughs

Will New York Be the Final World Metropolis? by William C. Conant

At Castle Hill, Newport, R.I. by Charles de Kay

Indian War in the Colonies by Edward Eggleston

Ornamental Forms in Nature by Roger Riordan

Professor Agassiz’s Laboratory by Ernest Ingersoll

Wonderland by George Edgar Montgomery

The Bread-winners — Part 2

A Burns Pilgrimage by H.H.

Love’s Power by Josephine Pollard

Our Story by Frank R. Stockton

Death’s First Lesson by Susan Marr Spalding

Love in Old Clothes by H.C. Bunner

Nights with Uncle Remus — Part 3 by Joel Chandler Harris

Topics of the Time

The Temperance Outlook

The Reticence of American Politicians

“College-Bred” Statesmen

Open Letters:

New York as a Field for Fiction by H.C. Bunner

The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union by Frances E. Willard

The Massachusetts Experiment in Education by Charles Barnard

A Romantic Career by D.C. Gilman

The Christian League by Washington Gladden and George K. Dunlop

Standard Railway Time by W.F. Allen

Reforming the Alfabet by Frederick A. Fernald

The Training of Children’s Voices by J. Spencer Curwen

Bric-a-Brac:

In Swimming-Time by James Whitcomb Riley

Model Children by Charles H. Turner

What’s in a Name? by R.K. Munkittrick

A Midsummer Day’s Dream by William M. Briggs

A Bundle of Letters by Frank Dempster Sherman

Massachusetts French by Bell F. Hapgood

1885/10 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

Frontispiece: Portrait of Samuel Bowles — Engraved by Henry Velten from a photograph

The Great River of Alaska — Part 2: Exploring the Upper and Lower Yukon by Frederick Schwatka

A Study in Independent Journalism by George S. Merriam

A Poet’s Soliloquy by Christopher P. Cranch

“Love at First Sight” by Brander Matthews

The Summer Haunts of American Artists by Lizzie W. Champney

The Gray Gull’s Wing by Mary Allen

The Bostonians — Part 9 by Henry James

The Canada Pacific Railway by George M. Grant

Tuscan Cities by William Dean Howells

March in Janiveer by H. C. Bunner

Riverside Park by William A. Stiles

The Last Days of General Grant by General Adam Badeau — Just over 20 pages with illustrations

Lincoln and Grant by Gen. Horace Porter

Reminiscences of General Grant by Gen. James Harrison Wilson

The Dead Comrade by Richard Watson Gilder

“Taps.” August 8, 1885 by F. M. Newton

Bigotry by Edgar Fawcett

Zweibak: Being Notes of a Professional Exile

Memoranda on the Civil War:

A “Famous Saying” Contradicted by Gen. D. C. Buell

General Heintzelman in the Peninsula Campaign by Mary L. Heintzelman

National Memorials of the Civil War by Charles W. Eldridge

General Grant’s Premonition by M. E. Seawell

Topics of the Time:

North and South

Prejudice and Progress

Civic Rivers

Open Letters:

The Connecticut Training School for Nurses

In the Chilcat Country by Mrs. Eugene S. Willard

Police Reform by L. Edwin Dudley

“Hunting the Rocky Mountain Goat”

Bric-A-Brac:

Accepted by Robertson Trowbridge

Madrigal by Frank Dempster Sherman

The Wood-Sprite by Roger Riordan

Compensations by J. A. Macon

Hobson’s Choice by Francis E. Leupp

My Rival by Bessie Chandler

The Race by Charles G. Blanden

1885/12 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

Frontispiece: Portrait of Helen Jackson (H.H.) – Engraved by Miss C.A. Powell, from a photograph

The City of Persia — Part 1: Teheran by S. G. W. Benjamin

Saint Elizabeth by T. T. Munger

A Child of the Age by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen

The Interpreter by Edith M. Thomas

The Private History of a Campaign that Failed by Mark Twain

Eve by W. J. Henderson

The Bostonians by Henry James

The Solitary Knight by James T. McKay

An American Lordship by George Parsons Lathrop

The Poet by Ina D. Coolbrith

John Bodewin’s Testimony — Part 2 by Mary Hallock Foote

The “Lamia” of Keats by Henry Eckford

The Last Poems of Helen Jackson (H. H.) — Habeas Corpus; Acquainted with Grief; Fealty; The Poet’s Forge; Vision; Vanity of Vanities; A Last Prayer; by Helen Jackson

The Lesson of Greek Art by Charles Waldstein

Bird-Enemies by John Burroughs

Faith-Cures by A. F. Schauffler

The Haunted Heart by Minna Irving

The Monitors: Their Construction and Work by Capt. John Ericsson

The Loss of the Monitor. By a Survivor by Francis B. Butts

Dangers in Food and Drink by Elwyn Waller

At Mrs. Berty’s “Tea” by Thomas A. Janvier

Topics of the Time:

Transfigured Mercantilism

The Sunday-School and Good Literature

Open Letters:

What Shall Be Done With Our Ex-Presidents? — Opinions by George F. Edmunds – Thomas Cooley – Francis Wharton – Allen G. Bigelow

The Poetic Outlook by Washington Gladden

Wanted – A Universal Tinker by X. Y. Z.

Bric-A-Brac:

The Sultan of My Books by Edmund Gosse

De Libris by Cosmo Monkhouse

On the Fly-Leaf of a Book of Old Plays by Walter Learned

1886/05 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

Portrait of Nathaniel Hawthorne – Engraved by T. Johnson after a daguerreotype taken about 1848

Recent Architecture in America — Part 1 by Mrs. Schuyler van Rensselaer

The Minister’s Charge — Part 4 by William Dean Howells

The Flour Mills of Minneapolis by Eugene V. Smalley

To the Memory of H. H. by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Iduna by George A. Hibbard

A Betrothal by Frank Dempster Sherman

A Californian’s Gift to Science: Lick Observatory by Taliesin Evans

Control by Sidney Lanier

To Will H. Low — A Poem by Robert Louis Stevenson – A half page

Perturbed Spirits by Brander Matthews

Reunion (Regimental Officers, 1885) by David L. Proudfit

Hawthorne’s Philosophy by Julian Hawthorne

The Breeding of Fancy Pigeons by E. S. Starr

Evolution and the Faith by T. T. Munger

Zweibak; or, Notes of a Professional Exile — Part 3

Two Views of It by Anthony Morehead

The Helmet of Mambrino by Clarence King

From the Peninsula to Antietam

Posthumous Notes by Gen. George B. McClellan — 9 pages including illustrations

With an Introduction by Literary Executor by William C. Prime

Recollections of a Private — Part 7: McClellan at the Head of the Grand Army by Warren Lee Goss

The Battle of South Mountain or Boonsboro by Gen. D. H. Hill

Memoranda on the Civil War

In Reply to General Grant by Gen. William Farrar Smith

Topics of the Time

George Bancroft on the Legal-Tender Decision

Copyright

James Russell Lowell’s Bible Argument

The American Opera Company

A Readjustment of the Industrial Order

Labor Question

Open Letters

The True South vs the Silent South by John W. Johnston

The True South vs the Silent South by George W. Cable

On the South Kensington School for Cookery by Mary B. Welch

Bric-A-Brac:

An Easter Lay by David Rorty

Spring by Bessie Chandler

Time and Love by Harold van Santvoord