1939/07/03 — Cover featuring Swimsuits in Fashion is credited to George Strock
Contents of this issue are as follows:
THE WEEK’S EVENTS:
THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:
RELIGION:
SCIENCE:
ART:
MODERN LIVING:
MOVIES:
OTHER DEPARTMENTS:
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1939/07/03 — Cover featuring Swimsuits in Fashion is credited to George Strock
Contents of this issue are as follows:
THE WEEK’S EVENTS:
THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:
RELIGION:
SCIENCE:
ART:
MODERN LIVING:
MOVIES:
OTHER DEPARTMENTS:
1939/08/28 — Cover featuring Alice Marble is credited to Alfred Eistenstaedt
Contents of this issue are as follows:
Highlight of this issue is actually a full-page color ad for MGM’s The Wizard of Oz picturing Judy Garland as Dorothy with the Tin Man, Scarecrow and Cowardly Lion
THE WEEK’S EVENTS:
THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:
ART:
MODERN LIVING:
MUSIC:
MOVIES:
SPORTS:
SCIENCE
OTHER DEPARTMENTS:
1939/07/17 — Cover featuring Lord Halifax is credited to Margaret Bourke-White
Contents of this issue are as follows:
THE WEEK’S EVENTS:
THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:
MOVIES:
Theater:
ART:
HORTICULTURE:
NATURAL HISTORY:
MODERN LIVING
OTHER DEPARTMENTS:
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:
Editorials:
CLOSE-UP:
PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:
MODERN LIVING:
THEATER:
SPORTS:
MOVIES:
SCIENCE:
POETRY:
OTHER DEPARTMENTS:
1939/02/13 — Cover featuring Norma Shearer is credited to MGM
Contents of this issue are as follows:
THE WEEK’S EVENTS:
THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:
ART:
SPORTS:
MOVIE:
THEATER:
MODERN LIVING:
OTHER DEPARTMENTS:
1949/03/14 — Cover photograph featuring Dorothy McGuire ‘s Baby is credited to John Swope.
Contents of this issue are as follows:
THE WEEK’S EVENTS:
Editorials:
ARTICLES:
PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:
MOVIES:
SPORTS:
MEDICINE:
MODERN LIVING:
ENTERTAINMENT:
BUSINESS:
OTHER DEPARTMENTS:
1949/01/17 — Cover photograph featuring Resort Fashions is credited to Leonard McCombe.
Contents of this issue are as follows:
THE WEEK’S EVENTS:
Editorials:
CLOSE-UP:
PICTORIAL ESSAY:
MOVIES:
PEOPLE:
SCIENCE:
FASHION:
THEATER:
OTHER DEPARTMENTS:
1939/12/18 — Cover featuring Canadian General Andrew McNaughton is credited to John Phillips
Contents of this issue are as follows:
THE WEEK’S EVENTS:
PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:
CLOSE-UP:
MUSIC:
SCIENCE:
SPORTS:
MODERN LIVING:
MOVIES:
OTHER DEPARTMENTS:
1938/10/03 — Cover featuring Czech Soldier is credited to Margaret Bourke-White
Contents of this issue are as follows:
THE WEEK’S EVENTS:
Threat of War:
THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:
CLOSE-UP:
MOVIES:
MODERN LIVING:
SPORTS:
OTHER DEPARTMENTS:
1939/05/29 — Cover featuring Eleanor Roosevelt is credited to Mark Kauffman
Contents of this issue are as follows:
THE WEEK’S EVENTS:
CLOSE-UP:
THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:
THEATER:
ART:
SPORTS:
NATURAL HISTORY:
MOVIE:
WORLD’S FAIR:
OTHER DEPARTMENTS:
1938/06/13 — Cover featuring Gertrude Lawrence is credited to Peter Stackpole
Contents of this issue are as follows:
THE WEEK’S EVENTS:
Pattern of War:
THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:
ART:
THEATER:
SPORT:
SCIENCE:
MOVIES:
OTHER DEPARTMENTS:
1938/11/14 — Cover featuring Brenda Diana Duff Frazier is credited to ACME
Contents of this issue are as follows:
THE WEEK’S EVENTS:
THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:
SPORTS:
MODERN LIVING:
MUSIC:
MOVIES:
THEATER:
OTHER DEPARTMENTS:
1939/03/06 — Cover photograph featuring Tallulah Bankhead is credited to Vandamm Studios
Contents of this issue are as follows:
THE WEEK’S EVENTS:
PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:
CLOSE-UP:
SCIENCE:
SPORTS:
THEATER:
MOVIES:
OTHER DEPARTMENTS:
1938/04/18 — Cover photograph featuring Paulette Goddard is by Martin Munkacsi
Contents of this issue are as follows:
THE WEEK’S EVENTS:
THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:
MOVIES:
SCIENCE:
FASHIONS:
OTHER DEPARTMENTS:
1938/10/17 — Cover photograph featuring Carole Lombard is by Alfred Eisenstaedt
Contents of this issue are as follows:
THE WEEK’S EVENTS:
The G.O.P. Puts Its Hope in Fresh New Faces:
NEWS:
War in China Gambles for Asia’s Future:
CLOSE-UP:
SPORT:
SCIENCE:
FASHION:
THEATER:
OTHER DEPARTMENTS:
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
PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:
CLOSE-UP:
ART:
MODERN LIVING:
RADIO:
THEATER:
SPORTS:
OTHER DEPARTMENTS:
1956/07/30 — Cover features Pier Angeli and is credited to Philippe Halsman
Contents of this issue are as follows:
THE WEEK’S EVENTS:
EDITORIAL:
ARTICLE:
PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:
RELIGION:
MOVIES:
SPORTS:
Midsummer Madness – Baseball Suffers from a Wacky Outburst of Tempers
ART:
PARTY:
OTHER DEPARTMENTS:
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:
CLOSE-UP
PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:
SCIENCE:
ART:
EDUCATION:
OTHER DEPARTMENTS:
1944/07/17 — Cover photograph featuring Peasant Clothes in Fashion is credited to Nina Leen
Contents of this issue are as follows:
THE WEEK’S EVENTS:
ARTICLE:
PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:
ARMY & NAVY:
MEDICINE:
MOVIES:
MODERN LIVING:
OTHER DEPARTMENTS:
1941/06/02 — Cover photograph featuring Sunday School is credited to Alfred Eisenstaedt
Contents of this issue are as follows:
THE WEEK’S EVENTS:
PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:
ARTICLE:
MODERN LIVING:
NATURAL HISTORY:
ART:
SPORTS:
OTHER DEPARTMENTS:
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:
CLOSE-UP:
PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:
BOOKS:
MEDICINE:
ART:
MODERN LIVING:
MOVIES:
NIGHT CLUB:
OTHER DEPARTMENTS:
1942/12/07 — Cover photograph featuring Marine Ace Captain John L. Smith is credited to Nelson Morris
Contents of this issue are as follows:
THE WEEK’S EVENTS:
ARTICLES:
PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:
MOVIES:
NAVY:
NIGHT CLUB:
ART:
BOOKS:
OTHER DEPARTMENTS:
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:
CLOSE-UP:
PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:
RELIGION:
THEATER:
ART:
EDUCATION:
MODERN LIVING:
MOVIES:
SCIENCE:
OTHER DEPARTMENTS:
1939/10/09 — Cover photograph featuring Kids Football is credited to Alfred Eisenstaedt
Contents of this issue are as follows:
THE WEEK’S EVENTS:
CLOSE-UP
PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:
MOVIES:
SPORTS:
ART:
SCIENCE:
RELIGION:
MODERN LIVING:
OTHER DEPARTMENTS:
1954/08/30 — Cover photograph featuring Anna Maria Alberghetti is credited to Loomis Dean
Contents of this issue are as follows:
THE WEEK’S EVENTS:
EDITORIALS:
PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS:
ARTICLE:
ANIMALS:
SCIENCE:
SPORTS:
MOVIES:
MUSIC:
MODERN LIVING:
DANCE:
BUSINESS:
FASHION:
OTHER DEPARTMENTS: