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1957-11-04 Sports Illustrated Magazine Contents for November 4, 1957

Jan.22, 2010 in Sports Illustrated

1957/11/04 – Front cover features Bobby Cox of Minnesota – Best College Quarterback

  • Now in November – At midseason, a reflective look at football’s teams and totals
  • The Boy Grew Up – The amazing story of Bobby Cox, a problem child turned football hero by Roy Terrell
  • This Vintage Year – Superb basketball is the promise of a new pro season – Scouting reports and ratings of all eight NBA teams by Jeremiah Tax
  • A Boat for a Bride – Designer Bill Goarden dreamed up the Oceanus to ge this new wife to sea. By Mort Lund
  • What’s in a Name? – For once, the great pacer Torpid lived up to his incongruous name by Jeremiah Tax
  • Sporting Look at Europe’s Sweaters — …and the girls who wear them
  • A Well-Armed Girl in the Wilds – Virginia Kraft visits Montana’s Bob Marshall Wilderness and bags a bear
  • Plus Departments containing semi-regular features

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    1957-09-09 Sports Illustrated Magazine Contents for September 9, 1957

    Jan.22, 2010 in Sports Illustrated

    1957/09/09 – Front cover features Roy McMillan of the Reds

  • The Last Nail – Robert H. Boyle tells how the Yankees virtually wrapped up another pennant
  • The Red Shoe Mystery – A Russian jumping shoe brings astonishment to rule makers by Paul O’Neil
  • Hickory, Dickory … Victory! – A bargain colt, Hickory Smoke, wins the classic Hambletonian by Jeremiah Tax
  • America’s Cup – The Old Mug Again – After a summer of confusion, a famed race is revived by Mort Lund
  • Spectacle: Hot Derby for Outboards – Foreign rigs add spice to this year’s championships
  • Preview: Back to the Country Club – The Amateur Golf championship returns to Brookline. A chart of the course by Jack Kunz and a recounting of Francis Ouimet ’s 1913 Open by Herbert Warren Wind
  • Physical Fitness Comes to the Point – The President’s Committee meets in a likely spot by Dorothy Stull
  • Wreck of the Redlegs – Horrible pitching scuttled Cincinnati’s pennant hopes says Robert Creamer
  • Part 1: God’s Little Underwater Acre – Clare Booth Luce discovers a strange and brilliant new world
  • What to Wear on Wheels – A Sporting Look at sunny Rome’s latest in motor scooter costumes
  • Bonnie Prudden’s Fun & Fitness Course — Ending the first phase of the series, she presents the Side Stretch
  • Plus Departments containing semi-regular features

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    1957-09-16 Sports Illustrated Magazine Contents for September 16, 1957

    Jan.22, 2010 in Sports Illustrated

    1957/09/16 – Front cover features Carmen Basilio

  • Big News in Contract Bridge – Charles Goren, introduced by W. Somerset Maugham, joins Sports Illustrated’s staff and presents his 10 new commandments of bidding
  • The Velvet Hand – It is Carmen Basilio’s left, and it should beat Sugar Ray Robinson says Martin Kane
  • Spectacle: Mudlark in Blighty – Uphill and Down with England’s hardy trials drivers
  • A Champion Is On the Way – Whitney Tower scouts tomorrow’s racing heroes, today’s 2-year olds
  • National Singles Champions, 1957 – Althea Gibson accommodated history–Malcolm Anderson made it
  • End of an Area — The Dodgers may be dead now, but “wait till next year” by Dick Young
  • One Man’s Arsenal – On the Eve of Hunting Season Ed Zern picks 10 best guns
  • Part 2: God’s Little Underwater Acre – Clare Booth Luce concludes her odyssey of discovery in a colorful new world
  • Pour Le Sport – A fashion scoop from Paris; boutique clothes with a Sporting Look
  • Bonnie Prudden’s Fun & Fitness Course – Part 7 presents Exercises for College Students
  • Plus Departments containing semi-regular features

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    1957-09-02 Sports Illustrated Magazine Contents for September 2, 1957

    Jan.22, 2010 in Sports Illustrated

    1957/09/02 – Front cover features Althea Gibson

  • Faces in the Crowd includes a thumbnail black & white photo of 17-year-old JACK NICKLAUS – Accompanying text reads: Jack Nicklaus, husky 17-year-old homebred, made up two-stroke deficit soon after start of final round but had to hand on grimly in face of determined challenge by John Konsek to win (294-296) international jaycee junior golf title at Columbus -Can’t stress enough how small this is, photo plus text area measure total of 2-1/2 X 1-1/2 inches
  • The Veep: He Swung and He Missed – Pete Rademacher loses his bout but makes his point by Martin Kane
  • Spectacle: The River – A St. Lawrence way of life photographed by Toni Frissell

  • Preview: Forest Hills — Sarah Palfrey presents an intimate portrait of Althea Gibson including full-page color photo of Gibson, a frequently ‘misunderstood’ you lady; William F. Talbert previews the 1957 Nationals; and Horace Sutton conducts a tour of Forest Hills
  • Sporting Look: College ‘57 – The University of Missouri models the latest clothes
  • Remember the Old Canoe? — Photographer Wallace Kirkland takes you on a nostalgic trip in color, and Sparse Grey hackle fondly recalls the canoes he has known
  • The Edsel Arrives – Debut of a powerful, glittering new Ford Motor Co. car by Kenneth Rudeen
  • Blue Heaven – In the Hawaiian Islands Ezra Bowen discovers a marlin paradise
  • San Francisco 1, Los Angeles 0 – Major league baseball finally reaches the coast–and not at L.A.
  • Deep in the Bush – Life in Class D baseball is photographed by John G. Zimmerman as Robert H. Boyle finds old Dodger Pete Reiser managing Kokomo
  • Bonnie Prudden’s Fun & Fitness Course – Part 5 presents the Hip Shift and Deep Knee Bend
  • Plus Departments containing semi-regular features

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    1957-08-05 Sports Illustrated Magazine Contents for August 5, 1957

    Jan.22, 2010 in Sports Illustrated

    1957/08/05 – Front cover features Bonnie Prudden

  • Floyd Patterson vs. Hurricane Jackson – A ringside report on the heavyweight championship fight by Martin Kane
  • Wondrous Willie – Richard Meek captures in color the base-running skill of WILLIE MAYS – 4 pages in color
  • That Pennant – Five players, mightily involved themselves, discuss the National league race

    • U.S. Fitness, 1957: A 24-Page Report

  • A survey of fitness progress–and problems by Dorothy Stull

  • Reports from the 48 States by Sports Illustrated correspondents
  • Bonnie Prudden begins a unique series on fitness for the family
  • The skintight Sporting Look in exercise clothes
  • Look, ma! I’m flying: fitness in Michigan
  • Long Run to Honolulu – Ezra Bowen’s nautical diary of the 2,230-mile to Diamond Head
  • 1-1-1-1-1-1-1 at Larchmont – Tommy Munnell and his sister Cathie win seven in a row
  • The PGA Comes Back – An old tourney is exhibiting renewed vigor by Herbert Warren Wind
  • Swoon’s Son – A courageous horse in Chicago, haven of comfort by Whitney Tower
  • A Museum for a Queen – The National turf collection, at Saratoga, photographed in Color

  • Case History of a Baseball Player – A “psychoanalyst” interprets the National Game by Howard L. Katzander
  • Plus Departments containing semi-regular features

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    1957-07-22 Sports Illustrated Magazine Contents for July 22, 1957

    Jan.22, 2010 in Sports Illustrated

    1957/07/22 – Front cover features New York Yankees Hank Bauer

  • Secrets of the Yankees – The story behind baseball’s winningest team by Roy Terrell

    • $427,100 in two Minutes

  • Eddie and Dedicate took the Monmouth Handicap by M.R. Werner

  • Clem won the big one at Arlington by William Leggett
  • To California’s Round Table the Day’s third fat purse by Melvin Durslag
  • Robert Moses and the Dodger Move by Robert Moses
  • Saga of Two Adventurous Honeymooners — In Color, an attractive sporting couple’s exotic, 30,000-mile wedding trip
  • Nothing Could Be Finer — That’s what they sing about Dyna, the Great Lakes’ newest yacht
  • Exit the Crocodile – Rae Johnstone, international jockey, has retired by William McHale
  • Fun in the Sun – A Sporting Look at some of the brightest seaside clothing yet
  • Part 1: Mr. McDonogh’s Magic Shovel – An Irish sequel to Gerald Holland’s Ron Delany story
  • Plus Departments containing semi-regular features

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    1957-07-29 Sports Illustrated Magazine Contents for July 29, 1957

    Jan.22, 2010 in Sports Illustrated

    1957/07/29 – Front cover features World Heavyweight Champion Floyd Patterson

  • They Face the Race – A managerial graph of the fevered National League pennant race
  • Four of Them Made History — John Lovesey reports from London on track’s greatest mile
  • Patterson by a KO — A look at the Floyd Patterson-Hurricane Jackson fight by Martin Kane
  • All Regular Guys – They’ll be playing gold in next week’s Public Links by Gwilym Brown
  • The Great in Tennis — Big Pancho Gonzales is still the world’s best player by William F. Talbert
  • The Fabulous Hamptons — Long Island’s poshest playground photographed in color by Toni Frissell with special social portrait by Horace Sutton
  • The Makeshift Marvel — Paul Richards is doing wonders in Baltimore by Les Woodcock
  • Stoneham of the Giants – A portrait of a club owner who must make up his mind
  • The Lavender Mob – Of sports cars and pot hunting in Maryland by Kenneth Rudeen
  • Part 2: Mr. McDonogh’s Magic Shovel — Gerald Holland completes some welcome spadework for Irish athletics
  • Golden Look for Tennis Clothes – Court fashions adopt the graceful traditions of a splendid past
  • Plus Departments containing semi-regular features

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    1925-07 The American Magazine Contents for July 1925

    Jan.15, 2010 in American

    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.

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    1925-06 The American Magazine Contents for June 1925

    Jan.15, 2010 in American

    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.

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    1957-09-30 Sports Illustrated Magazine Contents September 30 1957

    Dec.28, 2009 in Sports Illustrated

    1957/09/30 – Front cover features a photo by Hy Peskin to go with the World Series preview inside the issue

  • The Battle of the Champions – What happened when Carmen Basilio and Sugar Ray Robinson met at Yankee Stadium

    • PREVIEW: Yanks vs. Braves (12 pages coverage total, including the 3 in color)

  • The Season: How and why the winners won, plus three pages of Color including full page shot of Fred Haney
  • The Stadiums: Drawings of the Parks, their histories and seating data
  • Scouting Reports: A player-by-player evaluation of the Braves and Yankees
  • Critique–and Verdict: An assessment of the two teams
  • Football Surprises and Promises by Tex Maule
  • Golf’s Amateur Heroes by Herbert Warren Wind

    • ,lI>Johnny’s Gamble – An ailing colt wins the Little Brown Jug by Jeremiah Tax

  • New Sporting Look at Old Dublin – The lovely women of Ireland show classic fabrics in modern dress
  • Three Days on a Horse – Alice Higgins reports on the Wofford Cup
  • The Beauty of a Sporting Heritage – The magnificent estate of J. Watson Webbs, in color by Richard Meek
  • Herr “Beautiful Service” – About Red Schoendienst by Gerald Holland
  • Plus Departments containing semi-regular features

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    1957-04-08 Sports Illustrated Magazine Contents April 8 1957

    Dec.20, 2009 in Sports Illustrated

    1957/04/08 – Front cover features Trout Fisherman A. Wells Peck – Preview: The Trout Season, A Nationwide Report

  • Hang on and Pray – Victory comes to a doubting jockey in the Grand National by Whitney Tower
  • Ackus Marackus at Ohio – For 20 Year’s Ohio State’s divers have ruled their sport by Coles Phinizy
  • The Man Who Makes the Indians Run – A look at Cleveland’s Kerby Farrell by Roy Terrell
  • The Latest Discovery of America – The Hungarian Olympians complete their coast-to-coast Freedom Tour and record it all in snapshots
  • Whoomph! Goes the Rider – A spectator’s alert camera records a sensational spill at the Maryland Hunt Club – 2 pages in color
  • Ben Hogan’s Modern Fundamentals of Golf – Part 5 of 5
  • The Trout Are Waiting – A state by state survey for the eager angler by Thomas H. Lineaweaver
  • Pennants Are Won the Spring – So said John McGraw — Frank Frisch recalls the hard-boiled era
  • Plus Departments containing semi-regular features

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    1957-05-13 Sports Illustrated Magazine Contents May 13 1957

    Dec.20, 2009 in Sports Illustrated

    1957/05/13 – Front cover features Billy Pierce of the Chicago White Sox

  • Part 1 of 4: The Lady and the Trout — In the 15th Century, the literature of angling began with a Benedictine nun. An eminent historian, Alfred Duggan, introduces Dame Juliana Berners
  • The Baby Comes Into His Own – Iron Liege’s Derby: a triumph of courage and skill by Whitney Tower
  • How You, Willie? by Catherine Drinker Bowen about the charm of Derby time
  • A Punch for History — The incredible Sugar Ray Robinson is again middleweight champ after KOing Gene Fullmer by Martin Kane
  • High Wire to the Glacier World – A skiing adventure, in color, and the Footloose Sportsman in Chamonix
  • Chicago’s Go-Sox Go Again – If not the team to beat, at least they were the team to catch by Roy Terrell
  • Italian Duel – A preview of the year’s first big European road races by William Rospigliosi
  • ‘Racing Is a Vice” – A dashing young driver, Alfonso de Portago, eulogizes his sport
  • Foul Weather and Fair – There’s a brand new sporting look for sailors
  • Plus Departments containing semi-regular features

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    1957-06-24 Sports Illustrated Magazine Contents June 24 1957

    Dec.20, 2009 in Sports Illustrated

    1957/06/24 – Front cover features pole vaulter Bob Gutkowski

  • Fame Calls on Dick Mayer – U.S. Open report by Ben Hogan and Herbert Warren Wind
  • Henley Forever in text and color photos featuring the Henley Royal Regatta
  • Part 1 of 5 — The Art of Race Riding by Eddie Arcaro and Whitney Tower with drawings by Robert Riger
  • The Men Look Over the Boys by Roy Terrell about big league scouts at the College World Series
  • Phenomenal Philadelphia by Les Woodcock about a half dozen rookies and Granny Hamner getting the Phillies off to a good start
  • Track Thrills–And Champions about the NCAA meet (cover story)
  • The Shoe That Finally Fit by William Leggett about the 89th Belmont Stakes winner Willie Shoemaker on Gallant Man
  • Little Thunder-Maker by Dr. William J. Long and illustrated by Arthur Singer about the ruffled grouse
  • Plus Departments containing semi-regular features

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    1939-11-13 Life Magazine Contents November 13 1939

    Dec.11, 2009 in Life

    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

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    1948-05-26 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents May 26 1948

    Dec.09, 2009 in Sporting News

    1948/05/26 –

  • Cover cartoon is “Staff of No-Hitters” by Willard Mullin features Bill McCahan, Dick Fowler, and Bullfrog Bill Dietrich
  • Headline on front cover is “‘Lively Ball’ Laid to Dead-Arm Pitching — Everybody Now Swings for Distance”
  • “Looping the Loops” feature by J.G. Taylor Spink focuses on Eddie Joost
  • “Mack’s Cinderella A’s Cost But $75,000 – 5-and-10 Purchases Look Like a Million Bucks” with cartoon by Willard Mullin
  • Feature article on Ken Keltner with large photo
  • “What’s Wrong With Sox? Fans Yelping – Lowly Position Spurs Demand for Club’s Sale”
  • “Hat’s Off” small columns featuring players of the week with summaries of what they’ve done feature Hank Majeski of the A.L. and Stan Musial of the N.L. this issue
  • “Jackie Ungrateful to Negro Ball, Says Woman Club Owner” — Article is less than a column long but includes extensive quotes from Effa Manley asserting Jackie Robinson turned on the Negro Leagues in Ebony Magazine article “What’s Wrong With Negro Baseball?”
  • Plus, believe it or not, much more including regular columns, box scores, statistics and extensive minor league coverage
  • Chesterfield Cigarettes ad on back cover features large image of Anne Baxter

    • 40 pages total.

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    1948-02-18 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents February 18 1948

    Dec.09, 2009 in Sporting News

    1948/02/18 –

  • Cover cartoon is “Look Who’s Talking” by Willard Mullin featuring his famed Brooklyn Bum
  • Headline on front cover is “Hall of Fame Picks Cheapened — Lanigan: Voting Plan Draws Fire of Director, Raps ‘Forced’ Second Ballot When No Player Receives 75 Pct. of First Poll”
  • Ailing Babe in Miami to Soak Up Sunshine featuring photo of Mr and Mrs Babe Ruth
  • Article about Phillies Emil Verban and Eddie Miller
  • “Looping the Loops” column by J.G. Taylor Spink focuses on Buddy Rosar
  • Carl Hubbell cartoon
  • Best Guess on Jackie’s Pay $15,000, Boost of 200 Per Cent Over ‘47″ about Jackie Robinson with sidebar article “Baird Insists K.C. Monarchs ‘Signed’ Jackie” where KC Monarchs owner TY Baird refers to Branch Rickey’s “raid” and “spiriting away” of Robinson
  • Feature on Fred Luderus, old-time first basemen who replaced Frank Chance
  • Plus, believe it or not, much more! Including the 8 page All-Sports section which features a Willard Mullin cartoon of 18 year old figure skater Dick Button with accompanying article.
  • Chesterfield Cigarettes ad on back cover features large image of Jack Oakie

    • 28 pages plus 8 page All-Sports News Supplement for 36 pages total.

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    1956-07-30 Life Magazine Contents July 30 1956

    Nov.30, 2009 in Life

    1956/07/30 — Cover features Pier Angeli and is credited to Philippe Halsman

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

  • The Big Top Bows Out Forever as Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey folks its tents for the last time
  • A Look at the World’s Week
  • The Trial of a Marine Sergeant Becomes A Trial for the Corps and Its Methods
  • A Tranquil Grave for the Grand Canyon Crash Dead
  • Evicted Indian Princess of Patiala Picket to Get Their Palace Back

    • EDITORIAL:

  • The Eisenhower Program: How It Fares

    • ARTICLE:

  • Victory at Buena Vista – Part 2 of “My Confession” the Mexican War Memoirs of Soldier-Artist Samuel E. Chamberlain

    PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • The Beautiful Flowering of Emporia, Kansas – The City Reflects a Flourishing U.S. Hobby – Photographed for LIFE by Myron Davis

    • RELIGION:

  • Noble Drama at Notre Dame – Medieval Passion Play is a Paris Hit

    • MOVIES:

  • A Fine Part for Pier Angeli – The Gentle Actress Helps a Rough Film

    • SPORTS:
    Midsummer Madness – Baseball Suffers from a Wacky Outburst of Tempers

    ART:

  • A Wire Sun’s Golden Rising – Celestial Sculpture Goes on View in Metropolitan Museum

    • PARTY:

  • A Sentimental Send-Off for Senator George

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Speaking of Pictures: Cameralike Device Sees a Purple Cow
  • Letters to the Editors
  • Sequel: Stone Age Baby – A “Tarpan” Colt Is Born in a Chicago Zoo
  • Miscellany: Distress Over a Downfall

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    1939-10-09 Life Magazine Contents October 9 1939

    Nov.30, 2009 in Life

    1939/10/09 — Cover photograph featuring Kids Football is credited to Alfred Eisenstaedt

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • New War Fails to Panic Veterans of Old One
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • Queen Elizabeth Looks Over London’s Air-Raid Precautions
  • Germany and Britain Present Conflicting Evidence on Plane vs. Battleship
  • Two British Flying Boats Rescue Crew of Torpedoed Tramp Steamer
  • Heroic Polish Defense of Westerplatte Ends as nazi Mop-up of Poland Begins
  • How the Germans Overran Poland in Four Weeks

    • CLOSE-UP

  • Edouard Daladier

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • The Low Countries – Belgium and The Netherlands Are ready to Right with Guns and Floods

    • MOVIES:

  • “Hollywood Calvalcade”

    • SPORTS:

  • Best Young Baseballers are Owned by Yankee Farm System

    • ART:

  • A Great Newspaper Builds a Great Art Museum – The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery

    • SCIENCE:

  • Technicians Design Model Rockets Hoping for Transatlantic Flight

    • RELIGION:

  • Four-year-old boy becomes Dalai Lama of Tibet

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Oldtime Country Square Dancing Returns to Fashion in Big Cities
  • Bunchy Necklaces Are Worn to Balance Bustles

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Marlene Dietrich Hits a New High in Movie Roughhouse
  • People
  • LIFE Goes to a Kids’ Football Game
  • Pictures to the Editors

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    1956-11-07 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents November 7 1956

    Nov.13, 2009 in Sporting News

    1956/11/07 –

  • Cover cartoon is “Crisis in Tokyo” by Willard Mullin with article beginning underneath “‘Japan to Invite All-Stars or PCL Champions Next” (after Dodgers)
  • Headline of issue is “Umpires ‘Forgotten Men’ in Pay — Pinelli” with small photo of Babe Pinelli

  • Innocent looking article beginning at bottom left of front cover “Bums Sell Park, But Will Stay Put” about Dodgers and Ebbets Field
  • “Red Smith – Portrait of a Prize Reporter”
  • Al Lopez feature article with large Lopez cartoon by Bill O’Brien
  • A page of New York Yankees news and notes including a listing of their entire roster
  • Babe Pinelli feature “Pinelli Fought Way From Wharfs” with photos of the Mid-1920’s Reds infielders, Lew Fonseca, Sammy Bohne, Jimmy Caveney and Pinelli
  • 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 10-page “Quarterback” section covering football with a feature article about Frank Gifford with photo

    • 26 pages plus 10-page “The Quarterback” section for 36 pages total.

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    1956-10-24 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents October 24 1956

    Nov.13, 2009 in Sporting News

    1956/10/24 –

  • Cover cartoon is “Stars in His Eyes” featuring Bill Veeck overlooking players including Don Larsen, Satchel Paige, Marty Marion, Vic Wertz, and others, cartoon by Bill O’Brien. With article beginning underneath “‘Old Brownies Never Die, They Hurl Gems’–Veeck”
  • Headline of issue is “Hurlers Top Majors’ Peach Crop for ‘57 — Yanks, Tribe, Phils Lead in Hill Hopefuls”
  • Larsen Still Dizzy Over His Leap to Fame” with large cartoon by Hubenthal featuring World Series Perfect Game pitcher Don Larsen of the Yankees
  • “Cubs’ New Broom to Make Cellar Dust Fly – Holland and Scheffing Eye Several Players in Trades” with photo of Bob Scheffing, Cubs manager, with 3 Cubs VPs John Holland, Clarence Rowland and Charlie Grimm
  • “Robinson, Aparicio Romp to Rookie Honors” with Amadee cartoon images of Frank Robinson and Luis Aparicio
  • “World Series Issue Catches Up with Dodgers … On Way to Japan — Brooks Hailed Like Kings, Play Like Champs in Hawaii”
  • “Tighe to Put Tougher Twist in Tiger Tale — As Manager From Dugout, “He’ll Have No Sleeping There’” — With photo of new Tigers manager Jack Tighe with wife

  • 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 10-page “Quarterback” section covering football with a Willard Mullin cartoon on the cover

    • 30 pages plus 10-page “The Quarterback” section for 40 pages total.

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    1956-10-10 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents October 10 1956

    Nov.13, 2009 in Sporting News

    1956/10/10 –

  • Cover cartoon features Mickey Mantle – Hank Aaron – Billy Pierce – Don Newcombe as the best performers of 1956, illustrated by Lou Darvas. Accompanying headline is “Mantle and Aaron Top Players of Year – Newcombe, Pierce Gain Hill Honors”
  • Page 2 article: “Triple Crown, Not Babe’s Record, Worried Mantle – Last Week Nerve-Wracking to Mickey”
  • Full page featuring large photo of Sandy Amoros smoking victory cigar with headline: “Amoros Shakes Goat Role with Homers in Pennant-Clincher — Everything’s Looking Sunny Now for Sandy”
  • Looping the Loops column by J.G. Taylor Spink features Bobby Bragan
  • “Reds Knot Record, Go Down Swinging in Bid for New High” with Bob Bentovoua cartoon of 6 Reds sluggers including Frank Robinson, Wally Post and Ted Kluszewski
  • “Bums Puffed to Pennant on Uphill Trail” featuring team photo 1956 NL pennant winning Brooklyn Dodgers
  • A page covering the Milwaukee Braves who the Dodgers beat for the pennant, includes photo of Warren Spahn
  • Full page including two large photos feature on cartoonist Willard Mullin — “Word Picture of Artist-Creator of Brooklyn “Bum” – Mullin Began Drawing in School Books”
  • Nice full page “We Did It Again!!!” Brooklyn Dodgers ad featuring team photo plus bullet points highlighting the Dodgers regular season
  • Final batting averages for each league on facing pages with small photos of league leaders Mickey Mantle and Hank Aaron
  • Small article about Kraft Theater’s airing of “The Mickey Mantle Story” on the evening of World Series Game 1
  • Coverage of the Junior World Series featuring the Indianapolis Indians defeat of the Rochester Red Wings includes small head shot photos of heroes Joe Altobelli and Roger Maris
  • 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 “Quarterback” section covering football – Includes features on Lions – Nittany Lions – Jimmy Theodore – Claude Benham –

    • 36 pages plus 8-page “The Quarterback” section for 44 pages total.

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    1964-03-28 The New Yorker Magazine Contents March 28 1964

    Nov.11, 2009 in New Yorker

    1964/03/28 –

  • Cover by Abe Birnbaum
  • Goings on About Town
  • The Talk of the Town
  • Add Hot Water: Serves Fourteen Million by Thomas Meehan
  • “The Skeleton in the Closet” — A Poem by Richmond Lattimore
  • Lovely to Look At, Delightful to Hold by Edna O’Brien
  • “Sea Knell” — A Poem by John Updike
  • Annals of Legislation — Part 3 of 3: The Real Voice by Richard Harris
  • The Theatre: Off Broadway by Edith Oliver
  • Shirt Shrift by Dorothy L. Guth
  • The Current Cinema: No Tampering by Brendan Gill
  • Musical Events: Bright Shadow by Winthrop Sargeant
  • The Race Track: Repeated by Audax Minor
  • Books: Angels and Devils by Anthony West

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    1883-09 Century Magazine Contents September 1883

    Nov.09, 2009 in Century

    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

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    1885-12 Century Magazine Contents December 1885

    Nov.09, 2009 in Century

    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

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    1945-06-16 Colliers Magazine Contents June 16 1945

    Oct.26, 2009 in Colliers

    1945/06/16 — Cover featuring General Brehon B. Somervell is credited to Bob Leavitt

    Contents as follows:
    FICTION:

  • “Army Wedding” by Max Hampton and illustrated by Wendell Kling
  • “One Love in a Lifetime” — The Short Short Story by Louise Roedocker with illustration by John Holmgren
  • “Twelve-Hour Pass” by Starr Paret and illustrated by Michael
  • “The First Rifle” by Frank O’Rourke and illustrated by John Pike
  • “Woman at Bay” — Part 3 of 4 — by George Harmon Coxe and illustrated by Mario Cooper
  • “Heaven Like a Tent” by Grace Amundson and illustrated by Edwin Dawes

    • ARTICLES

  • Terror in Japan by Mark Gayn
  • I Testify: by William L. Chenery with photo of the wreckage of Nuremberg
  • Old Town by Dale White features Charlie Bovey of Great Falls, Montana
  • Fascist Finale by James E. Roper and John Chabot Smith looks at the Partisans of Northern Italy
  • Kentucky Doctor by Timothy J. Sullivan
  • I Soloed in 76 Minutes by Jim Marshall
  • Gremlins in the Garden by Bill Davidson
  • Evans’ Faces by Robert Bellaire
  • Every Dad Had His Day by Henry L. Jackson

    • PLUS:

  • “Keep Up With the World” by Freling Foster
  • Wing Talk by Capt. Earl J. Wilson, USMC
  • The Heroes: A Gallery of United Nations Portraits – No. 34 – Jose Aboulker by George Creel
  • The Week’s Work by Amy Porter
  • Editorials: Beware a Land Boom – First Aid for Congressmen – College Colossus

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