1949/04/04 — Cover photograph featuring Paul G. Hoffman of the ECA is credited to Yousuf Karsh. Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Red Visitors Cause Rumpus Editorials: Pacific Retreat Nickel Beer Hippopotamus Joyfully Greets Prospective Mate The Great Finnish Wolf Hunt “Mr. Kelly” Wins an Election – about Henri Queuille of [...]
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: Molotov Mystery Has Everyone Guessing – Did He Get Fired or Promoted? The Fox Loses First Round in Parliament “The Lady” Flies Nonstop Around World A U.S. Negro Makes Peace Holy [...]
1949/01/17 — Cover photograph featuring Resort Fashions is credited to Leonard McCombe. Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Storms Spread Death Through Midwest Democrats Take Over New Congress Panicky Shanghai Lines Up for Gold Editorials: “‘T Ain’t So” Immoral Profits State Department Gets a New Boss Communists Arrest Hungarian Cardinal Four-Year-Old [...]
1949/01/03 — Cover photograph featuring Famous Baby Dwight D. Eisenhower is credited to Nina Leen. Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: A Great Photographer Takes a Last Look at Peiping Editorials: Forecast for ’49 Challenge in Asia New York Society Recalls Past in Gibson Girl Ball Air Force Holes Maneuvers With [...]
1947/10/06 — Cover featuring Franklin Delano Roosevelt at 13 is courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Contents of this issue are as follows:THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Moscow Celebrates 800th Birthday – 7 pages Editorial: Reform Is Sweeping the Cities Pope and Monsignori Get Greetings Tangled Europe Submits Its “Marshall Plan” Kaiser-Frazer Success Surprises Detroit The [...]
1947/09/22 — Cover featuring Fall Fashions is credited to Nina Leen. Contents of this issue are as follows:THE WEEK’S EVENTS: “Exodus” Refugees End Tragic Voyage Editorial: The Marshall Plan: Our Move Next Rows of Plowed Earth Stop a Prairie Fire St. Peters Crowd Hears Pope Speak Sale of Dore Paintings Runs Into Difficulties Tennis Peepers [...]
1947/07/14 — Cover featuring Elizabeth Taylor is credited to Robert Landry Contents of this issue are as follows:THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Catholics Hold Huge Congress in Canada Editorial: The Break in Europe Texans Watch Tornado Approach Their Town Japanese War Criminals Escaped Steer Terrifies Neighborhood Herriot Squeezes Into French Academy Uniform ARTICLES: An Afternoon at Ascot [...]
1946/12/16 — Cover featuring Teresa Wright is credited to Philippe Halsman Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Atlanta Has Worst Hotel Fire in U.S. History Editorial: Russia By Thirds Wilson Wyatt Quits Bilbo Faces Senate Hearing Etonians Play Traditional Wall Game Mexican President is Inaugurated New York’s Rookie Cops Graduate Oakland [...]
1946/12/09 — Cover photograph featuring “Jet Pilot” is credited to Charles Steinheimer Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Plane Crash Survivors Rescued in Alps Editorial: Labor and the Law RFC Carries On Coal Strike Deepens U.S. Sergeant Runs Bremen Boys Club “Normandie” Makes Her Last Trip St. Paul Teachers Strike Japanese [...]
1946/11/25 — Cover featuring LIFE’s 10th Anniversary is credited to Herbert Gehr Contents of this issue are as follows: TENTH ANNIVERSARY ISSUE: Cartoons Kid Life Letters to the Editors The U.S. in 1946 The Balance Sheet by John Chamberlain Dreams of 1946 The Movies Ten Years of American Art Life’s Girls Life’s First Story Popular [...]
1946/11/11 — Cover featuring High School model Shirley Arnow is credited to Peter Stackpole Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: The Road Back to Berlin Editorial: “Our Germans” Legislator Starts Sit Down Strike Moslems Stone Nehru Indiana Girl Skates on Toes British Rabbits Walk on Two Feet A Mountbatten Marries French [...]
1946/10/21 — Cover photograph featuring Gloria Grahame is credited to George Strock Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: The 1946 Campaign Editorial: The American Woman Churchill Rides a Circus Horse Bride Dies on Steps of Church Peace Conference Finds Minor Harmonies Hungry Housewife Fails to Get Meat U.S. Couple Adopts French [...]
1946/10/07 — Cover photograph featuring Bing Crosby and Joan Caulfield is credited to Nina Leen Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Oldest Human Bones Arrive in the U.S. Editorial: Shall We Have a Depression? Truman is Caricatured by Friend Zale Wins Years Best Fight – Tony Zale beats Rocky Graziano in [...]
1946/09/23 — Cover photograph featuring Dachshund is credited to Frank Scherschel Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: U.S. Success Story 1938- 1946 — Auto Dealer Romy Hammes, Whom “LIFE” Looked at in 1938, Is Not Going Like a House Afire Editorial: Send Them Here! – Europe’s Refugees Need a Place to [...]
1946/09/09 — Cover photograph featuring Jane Powell is credited to Martha Holmes Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: U.S. Zippers Up Its Fleet Editorial: What’s the Score? Mrs. Roosevelt Shows Her New Teeth The Vultures of Calcutta Eat Indian Dead Evatt Answers Question: What Is Democracy? GIs Play Mikado in Tokyo [...]
1946/08/19 — Cover photograph featuring Old Faithful is credited to Alfred Eisenstaedt Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Peacemakers Wrangle Editorial: Palestine California Bowling Alley Murder Truman Purges Stubborn Congressman – Jim Pendergast Gambling Ship Florida Girls Go West for Beauty Contest Father Divine Takes New Wife Brooklyn Bear Works in [...]
1946/08/12 — Cover featuring Loretta Young is credited to Robert Landry Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Blood Runs in Palestine Violence – 5 pages Editorial: G.B.S. (George Bernard Shaw) Boss Crump Rides Roller Coaster Bolivian Revolt “Baker Day” at Bikini Midsummer: Jones Beach Tourists ARTICLE: Confidence Games CLOSE-UP: Frank Lloyd [...]
1946/08/05 — Cover photograph featuring Radio’s Juvenile Jury Participant is credited to Jerry Cooke Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Across the Trans-Siberian Railroad by Richard Lauterbach Editorial: The Veteran People in the News ARTICLE: Mr. Mencken Sounds Off by Roger Butterfield – H.L. Mencken feature takes up parts of 5 [...]
1946/06/17 — Cover featuring Play Dresses is credited to Lisa Larsen Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Chicago Hotel Fire Kills 60 People – La Salle Hotel Editorial: Mr. Byrnes’s New Hand Maritime Workers Listen to Union Official Talk Strike Detroit Celebrates the Automobile’s 50 Anniversary Umbrellas Shelter England’s Queen, Ensign’s [...]
1946/05/27 — Cover photograph featuring “Ozark Farmer” is credited to Kosti Ruohomaa Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: U.S. Tests Rockets in New Mexico – V-2s Editorial: Why Kid Around? Barbara Hutton Has Trouble at Ritz Front Door Lord Halifax Bids Farewell to U.S. Harvard Beauty Contest Is Sabotaged The Ku [...]
1946/05/20 — Cover photograph featuring Ice Capades is credited to Bradley Smith Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Black Markets Grip U.S. Editorial: The World and John L. White House Robin Hatches Three Eggs Lewis Grants a Truce Paris Conference Makes Small Progress Nine-Year Old Swallows 18 Marbles Nazi Women Get [...]
1946/05/13 — Cover photograph featuring “Northwest Vacation” is credited to Jerry Cooke Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Millions Die in China’s Famine – Photographs by George Silk Editorial: On the Air Bob Feller Pitches No-Hit Game – 1 page plus small paragraph of text, full page photo of Joe DiMaggio [...]
1946/04/29 — Cover photograph featuring Marble Pagoda in Peiping is credited to Dmitri Kessel Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Russia Draws Iron Curtain Over Eastern Europe Editorial: No Peace Yet Mr. and Mrs. Mickey Rooney Attend Hollywood Premiere Tokyo Mob Storms Premier’s House Japanese Women Vote Southpaw Truman Throws First [...]
1946/04/22 — Cover featuring “Denver High School” is credited to Jerry Cooke Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: U.S. Army Suffers Disintegration Editorial: Why Men Pray Eight Familiar Prayers Six Horses Finish in England’s Grand National Rightists Win Greek Election First Lady’s Bridge Club Meets at White House Ex-GIs Settle Down [...]
1946/04/08 — Cover photograph featuring Clown Lou Jabobs is credited to Loomis Dean Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Russia Walks Out on UNO Session Editorial: How to Stop Inflation Ex-Wrestling Champion Is Candidate in Japanese Election – Full-page photo of Sakata with his son, a paragraph of text on facing [...]
