1954/10/25 — Cover photograph featuring The Big Ten Look for Coeds is credited to Nina Leen Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Hanoi’s Red Masters Take Over Hazed by Hazel A Capricious Hurricane Takes Its Toll – Hurricane Hazel Kansas City’s High Hereford A Matter of Words Creates a Political Storm [...]
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: World Council Works for Church Unity Store Hires Hostesses During Pilot Strike Quiet Boys … And Horror in Brooklyn A Man Lives to See Another Evening Sun Go Down Texas Chooses Up [...]
1953/09/14 — Cover featuring Casey Stengel is credited to Mark Kauffman. Contents of this issue are as follows:COVER: Casey Stengel’s Winning Smile THE WEEK’S EVENTS: The Lonely Men of Short Creek Await Trial (polygamy) Heat Launches Raft of Sales for a Melting ‘Missouri’ General Dean’s Heroism is Revealed Naguib Makes a Pilgrimmage West Germans Break [...]
1953/08/31 — Cover featuring Donna Reed is credited to Sharland. Contents of this issue are as follows:THE WEEK’S EVENTS: A Dramatic Royal Comeback in Iran — the Shah Reds Photograph a GIs Reaction to the Truce in Korea Zoo’s Babies Get Overdose of Love Great Britain Provides New Face for UN – Selwyn George American [...]
1952/08/18 — Cover featuring Marlene Dietrich and daughter, Maria, is credited to Milton Greene. Contents of this issue are as follows:THE WEEK’S EVENTS: The Uranium Rush Is On in Athabaska — Photographed for LIFE by Carl Iwasaki Picture of a Successful Presidential Candidate Democrats Beat a Truman Life Valley Fights “Deadly Sleep” Norway Honors Haakon, [...]
1952/07/28 — Cover featuring British Starlets in Hollywood — Joan Elan – Dorothy Bromiley – Audrey Dalton – is credited to John Engstead Contents of this issue are as follows:THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Muscles Pop Through Iron Curtain Web Foot Hazard Delays Tournament Democratic Eyes Fix on Truman’s Alternate Flash Fire at Sea The Duponts Have [...]
1952/01/28 — Cover photograph featuring Phyllis Newell is credited to John Raymond Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: An Ancient Pass Traps a Modern Donner Party Bomb Makes a Shambles of a Sunny Saigon Square Family and France Pay Highest Honors to Be Lattre A Gambler’s Luck Holds Out – Trial [...]
1950/12/25 — Cover is credited to John Koch. Contents of this issue are as follows:THE WEEK’S EVENTS: There Was a Christmas in Korea Editorial: The Blessing of God The Long Count in Michigan America’s Leading Debutantes Are Welcomed Into Society Protestants Unite in Several Fields CHRSITMAS SECTION FOR CHILDREN: Breughel’s Games Carnival Toys Model Locomotives [...]
1950/10/09 — Cover photograph featuring Jean Simmons is credited to Philippe Halsman Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Seoul and Victory – Here Is Record of Way South Korea Was Retaken Editorials: Salute to Our Warriors But What Comes Next? The End Comes for a Champion – One page with large [...]
1950/08/28 — Cover photograph featuring General Douglas MacArthur is credited to Stephens Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: A Vision Brings 80,000 to Necedah Editorials: Lessons from Combat U.S. Civil Defense Lags Loving Lion Greets Nightclub Patron Atomic Handbook Becomes a Best Seller Skyscraper Reaches the Top “Wild Blue Yonder Boys” [...]
1949/11/21 — Cover photograph featuring Ricardo Montalban is credited to Alfred Eisenstaedt. Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Filipinos Elect Friend of U.S. (Quirino) Death Overtakes Racing Driver Rex Mays Political Unknown Upsets the Reds – Earl Brown Editorial: Little News A Butcher Shares the General Motors Melon Russians Explain Atom [...]
1949/10/17 — Cover photograph featuring Jeanne Crain in Pinky is credited to Arnold Newman. Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Battle for Pensions Waxes Hot in California Editorials: President Truman and Senator Taft Haile Selassie’s Gradson Captivates London — one-page featuring large photo of 2-year-old Prince Wossen Seged Makonnen An Old [...]
1949/08/15 — Cover photograph featuring “How to Dress for Hollywood” depicting actress Brynn Noring is credited to Philippe Halsman. Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Sweden Holds a Gymnastic World Series — Photographs for LIFE by William J. Sumits Editorials: This May Cost You Money and Speaking of the “Daily News” [...]
1949/07/25 — Cover photograph featuring “Girl in Plastic Beach Boat” is credited to George Silk. Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: 81st Congress Debates Basic Issue of Statism Editorial: Lessons from Goethe New Canal Furnishes Water for California Eden Dimitrov Joins Communist “Immortals” LIFE Congratulates Some Newlyweds A Bright Boy Slips [...]
1949/07/18 — Cover photograph featuring “Hollywood Child – Sharon Harmon” is credited to Lisa Larsen. Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Japan’s “Red” Army Comes Home Editorial: Dollars Are Power Les Biffle Is Hero of a New Arkansas Los Angeles Has Vice Scandal Hectic Holliday Mixes Trouble With Relief Tale of [...]
1949/07/11 — Cover photograph featuring Bob Mathias is credited to Michael Rougier. Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: A Champ Makes Good for the Home Folks – 5 pages on Bob Mathias Editorials: The South Awakens and Candy and Socialism An Old Assassin Dies by Gunfire Chennault Sounds a Last Call [...]
1949/06/27 — Cover photograph featuring “Inland Sailing” with Arlin Gruenwald is credited to George Silk. Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: New Harvest Adds to Big Wheat Surplus Editorial: The Year of the Yammer George VI Gets A Mouthful of Chin Strap Truman’s Patronage Boss Goes to Work – Big Bill [...]
1949/06/20 — Cover photograph featuring “High School Spirit” depicting Marcia Mattson is credited to Leonard McCombe. Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: A Sultan’s Daughter Weds a Caliph — Photographs for LIFE by Dmitri Kessel Hawaiian Strike Nears Showdown Photo Flares Light Up New York Princess Elizabeth Performs at Races Evita [...]
1949/06/13 — Cover photograph featuring Marta Toren is credited to Philippe Halsman Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: A Medical Miracle Saves Mike Rector Editorial: “The Slide” Minnesota Dog Climbs a Fence LIFE Offers Some Congratulations West Virginia Convicts Recaptured Danny Conquers England – Featuring Danny Kaye Saginaw Buries Its Town [...]
1949/05/30 — Cover photograph features “F.D.R. at 2″ Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Warsaw Rises From Its Wreckage Editorial: The Roosevelts FDR Jr. and Mother Display Victory Smiles Monaco Buries Its Sprightly Old Prince Chinook Pass Has Snowdrifts in May The Hawkings Hold Last Outpost of Empire John McCloy Takes [...]
1949/05/16 — Cover photograph featuring “Little Boxer” is credited to Rue Faris Drew. Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: The Russians Back Down in Germany Loss Is $6 Million in Race Track Fire 19 Pigs Are Born in One Letter Prices Collapse in War Between Chains Labor Takes on Two Big [...]
1949/05/09 — Cover photograph featuring Missouri Co-Ed Jane Stone is credited to Peter Stackpole Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Nanking Is Looted Orphaned Puppy Finds New Home F.D.R. Jr. Turns On the Old Roosevelt Charm Editorial: Peace in Berlin? “Peace” Road Show Hits Snag The ECA Helps Georges Burmese Visit [...]
1949/05/02 — Cover photograph featuring “Eight-Letter Man at West Point” with Arnold Galiffa is credited to Arnold Newman. Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Irish Become a Free Nation Editorial: Health by Compulsion Sewell Avery Keeps His Job CIO Party-Liner Wins Election Madrid Observes the Parade of Silence Air Force Knocks [...]
1949/04/25 — Cover photograph featuring “Paris Fashions” is credited to Gordon Parks. Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Millions See Moon in Rare Total Eclipse Editorials Right to Hear Brannan’s Plan Italian Fascists Reappear Pacific Northwest Has Its Worst Earthquake White Russian Odyssey Reaches Philippines Man Has a Merry Week Seventy [...]
1949/04/11 — Cover photograph featuring “Spring Along the Mississippi” is credited to Loomis Dean. Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: War in Burma Editorial: The Atlantic Alliance Russian Skater Hits Jackpot of Medals Improper Bostonians Mob a Bargain Sale (at Filene’s) Churchill Speaks in Boston Wanderlust in California Miss New Orleans [...]
