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1946-02-25 Life Magazine Contents

1946/02/25 — Cover featuring “Field Trial” is credited to William C. Shrout Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: U.S. Denounces Argentine Fascism – Photographs by Thomas D. McAvoy include the Perons Editorial: The World and U.S. Food Pearl Harbor Record Piles Up Mayors Have a Tough Week at the Office Indian [...]

1946-01-21 Life Magazine Contents

1946/01/21 — Cover photograph featuring Cardinal Spellman is credited to Lisa Larsen Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: C.I.O. Forces Showdown With Industry Editorial: Should We Be Optimistic? French Mayor Unwillingly Marries French Veteran to German Girl The True Emperor of Japan? by Richard E. Lauterbach features “Emperor” Hiromichi Curley Inaugurated [...]

1946-01-14 Life Magazine Contents

1946/01/14 — Cover photograph featuring Southern Resort Fashions is credited to Philippe Halsman Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Canada Mines Uranium in Arctic Editorial: Should the Army and Navy Be Merged? Patton’s Dog Waits to Come Home Stamford Unions Stage Small General Strike LaGuardia Leaves City Hall – O’Dwyer New [...]

1945-12-17 Life Magazine Contents

1945/12/17 — Cover photograph featuring Paulette Goddard as “Kitty” is credited to Whitey Schaefer Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: The Great Housing Shortage Editorial: Housing – What Can Be Done? General Hurley Appears Before Committee Emperor Addresses Japanese Diet Johnson Family Has Extra Fingers and Toes Los Angeles Fights Rise [...]

1945-12-10 Life Magazine Contents

1945/12/10 — Cover featuring Party Dresses in Fashion is credited to Philippe Halsman. Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Civilization Tries Top Nazis Report from Nurnberg by John Dos Passos Editorial: A Dream Eisenhower and Zhukov Eat French Food Metropolitan Opera Opens Spanish Drought Brings New Suffering to Hard-Pressed People Truman’s [...]

1945-12-03 Life Magazine Contents

1945/12/03 — Cover featuring Spencer Tracy is credited to Eileen Darby Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: U.S. Returns to Normalcy Editorial: Our Representatives Abroad Army and Navy Scrap Warplanes Bill Mauldin Goes to the Legion Convention Major Boxer Joins His Family Soldier Takes His Ease British Evacuate Berlin Children ARTICLE: [...]

1945-11-26 Life Magazine Contents

1945/11/26 — Cover photograph featuring Champion Afghan is credited to Nina Leen Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Paris GIs Flock to Place Pigalle Editorial: No Miracles Truman and Atlee Meet in Washington Bronx Miracle England’s “Red Dean” Visits U.S. about Hewlett Johnson, D.D., Dean of Canterbury Rabbis March on Washington [...]

1945-11-05 Life Magazine Contents

1945/11/05 — Cover photograph featuring “The Fleet’s In” is credited to Eileen Darby Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: New York Welcomes the U.S. Navy: Truman Reviews Fleet What Sailors Say about the Navy by Guy Richards Shore Leave Flower Ceremony Editorial: The Trouble With UNRRA The Czechs Try and Hang [...]

1945-10-29 Life Magazine Contents

1945/10/29 — Cover featuring Autumn is credited to Kosti Ruohomaa Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: New York’s Campaign for Mayor – O’Dwyer and LaGuardia Editorial: The Bomb The Pope Poses for Exclusive Photographic Portrait Allies Indict 24 Top Nazis – 2 pages – Includes mugshot type photos for all 24 [...]

1945-10-15 Life Magazine Contents

1945/10/15 — Cover featuring “Fall Jewelry in Fashion” is credited to Ewing Krainin Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: The U.S. Relaxes – Includes “Bubble Craze,” two pages of people blowing bubbles as the “First big postwar fad hits Atlanta” Editorial: The First Peace Conference Statue of Christ Lies Intact in [...]

1945-10-08 Life Magazine Contents October 8 1945

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 [...]

1945-09-25 Life Magazine Contents

1945/09/25 — Cover featuring Colonel Jimmy Stewart is credited to Peter Stackpole Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: New Mexico’s Atomic Bomb Crater The Bombing of Nagasaki by William L. Laurence – 2 pages, article itself one column of text Editorial Some Big Words Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek Toasts China’s Communist Leader [...]

1945-09-17 Life Magazine Contents

1945/09/17 — Cover photograph featuring General Douglas MacArthur is credited to Andrew Lopez Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Japan Signs the Surrender – 9 pages of photos Effects of the Atomic Bomb – 4 pages of photos of the destruction Editorial: National Security Scots Commemorate Landing of “Bonnie Prince Charlie” [...]

1945-09-10 Life Magazine Contents

1945/09/10 — Cover featuring “Auto Worker” is credited to William C. Shrout Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: U.S. Occupies Japan – 13 pages include MacArthur’s Arrival Editorial: Peace in Asia King Leopold’s Family Black Markets Boom in Berlin Lilly Dache Packs for Paris ARTICLES: Nijinsky in Vienna by William Walton [...]

1945-09-03 Life Magazine Contents

1945/09/03 — Cover photograph featuring House Party is credited to Jerry Cooke Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: The Japs Get MacArthur’s Orders The Japanese Mind in Defeat by Shelley Mydans Editorial: The State Department Ralph Neppel Receives Medal of Honor Peace Brings Temporary Unemployment Allies Enter Vienna War Criminals Come [...]

1945-08-27 Life Magazine Contents

1945/08/27 — Cover featuring “Ballet Swimmer” is credited to Walter Sanders Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Victory Celebrations – 7 pages including the famous photo in New York City of a Sailor kissing Girl in White snapped by Alfred Eisenstaedt The Week the War Ended by Noel F. Busch – [...]

1945-08-20 Life Magazine Contents

1945/08/20 — Cover photograph featuring General Carl “Tooey” Spaatz is credited to Thomas D. McAvoy Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: The War’s Ending Atom Bombs Obliterate Hiroshima and Nagasaki B-29s Almost Finish Job Editorial: The Atomic Age Refueling at Sea Revealed as Nimitz’ Secret Weapon Truman Reports to Nation, Meets [...]

1945-08-13 Life Magazine Contents

1945/08/13 — Cover featuring “Jet Plane” is credited to Erik Miller Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: France Puts Marshall Petain on Trial The State v. Petain by Charles Christian Wertenbaker Editorial: Britain’s Choice Frigidaires and Airplane Propellers Move along Assembly Lines Big Three Agree on “Hard Peace” Congressman Adam Clayton [...]

1945-08-06 Life Magazine Contents

1945/08/06 — Cover featuring “Junior Sailors” is credited to Allan Grant Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: The Berlin Conference Truman’s First Hundred Days – 51 photos over 6 pages Editorial: Japan Marlene Dietrich Greets Home-coming GI “Times” of London Analyzes Britain’s Labor Victory Clement Richard Attlee The Great Loser (Winston [...]

1945-07-30 Life Magazine Contents

1945/07/30 — Cover featuring “Playing on the Beach” is credited to Harriet Arnold Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Displaced Persons Swarm Across Europe Editorial: America and Russia Patrice Munsel Doesn’t Shock Met Pros and Cons Testify at Charter Hearings Presidential Cap Surrender Papers Are Displayed in Washington ARTICLE: Kamikaze by [...]

1945-07-23 Life Magazine Contents

1945/07/23 — Cover photograph featuring Peggy Ann Garner is credited to Eileen Darby Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Berlin – Several pages of photos of the destruction including two pages titled “Did Adolf and Eva Die Here?” Editorial: Reconversion Eclipse “Suzy from Shangri-La” by Shelley Mydans about Cpl. Margaret “Suzy” [...]

1945-07-16 Life Magazine Contents

1945/07/16 — Cover photograph featuring Audie Murphy is credited to George Longhead Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: U.S. Army Justice Falls on Germans Editorial: Japan–An Opportunity for Statesmanship United Nations Charter Reaches Washington Clam Battle in Ipswich New Cabinet Members Take Oath Strike Wave Hits Country Rita Hayworth Wins GI [...]

1945-07-09 Life Magazine Contents

1945/07/09 — Cover featuring Bathing Suits in Fashion is credited to Ewing Krainin Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: United Nations Sign Charter Editorial: At San Francisco Navy’s Floating Drydock President Truman Takes a Vacation The “Bunker Hill” Is Bombed Mauldin Meets Son Labor Secretary Perkins Says Goodbye Mussolini Love Nest [...]

1945-06-18 Life Magazine Contents

1945/06/18 — Cover featuring Girl Scouts in Washington DC is credited to Alfred Eisenstaedt. Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Americans Battle for Okinawa 24 Hours in the Life of a Foot Soldier by W. Eugene Smith Editorial: On Burying and Unburying Naval Academy Graduate is Kissed Red Europe B-29 Raids [...]

1945-06-06 Life Magazine Contents

1949/06/06 — Cover photograph featuring “Summer Playclothes” with Ronnie Porter is credited to Lisa Larsen. Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: The Armed Services Battle It Out Editorial: The New ’49ers Forrestal’s Body is Carried to Arlington Photographer Records Biography of a Tornado Another Reuther is Ambushed Rita Hayworth Marries Aly [...]