1949/09/27 — Cover photograph credited to Carlyle Blackwell, Jr. from Globe Contents as taken from this issue’s index are as follows: AMERICAN SPOTLIGHT: A Woman for President by Vincent Sheean The Case Against Wire Tapping by James Lawrence Fly Angels Wanted Paddy Wagon Assault by Helicopter Harvard by Don Wharton What Do Children Wonder About? [...]
1949/08/16 — Cover photograph of Betty Grable is credited to Earl Theisen Contents as taken from this issue’s index are as follows: AMERICAN SPOTLIGHT: A Southerner Tells What’s Wrong With the North by Hodding Carter The Lutherans by Lewis W. Gillenson What Are Your Chances for a Husband? by Leonard A. Paris Blondes Prefer Gentlemen: [...]
1949/06/21 — Cover photograph of society-deb Kit Curran is uncredited Contents as taken from this issue’s index are as follows: AMERICAN SPOTLIGHT: School Is Fun in California Socialized Medicine? by Sen. James E. Murray with Marginal Notes by Dr. Roscoe L. Sensenich Camping in Comfort Five Ways to Avoid Polio Potatoes Add More to Your [...]
1949/06/07 — Cover photograph of Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall and newbord Stephen Bogart is credited to Cronenworth of Columbia Pictures Contents as taken from this issue’s index are as follows: AMERICAN SPOTLIGHT: Will Truman ‘s Friends Ruin Him? by Marquis Childs Washington Correspondents Rate Your Senators The Nursing Shortage Can Be Solved Union Pacific Country [...]
1949/04/26 — Cover photograph of Joe DiMaggio and Joe, Jr. is credited to Jim Hansen Contents as taken from this issue’s index are as follows: AMERICAN SPOTLIGHT: How 10,000 Women Raise $1,000,000 for Mount Holyoke Flood, Mud, Dust and Disaster: WantedL A Missouri Compromise That Will Hold Water by William B. Arthur Operation Pencil: Stabbed [...]
1949/01/18 — Cover photograph of Anne Burr is credited to Arthur Rothstein Contents as taken from this issue’s index are as follows: AMERICAN SPOTLIGHT: Is Our Government Too Big? by William B. Arthur Brandeis University Is Born by Lewis W. Gillenson The Brooklyn Nobody Knows Who Really Won for Truman by Richard Wilson WORLD SPOTLIGHT: [...]
1949/01/04 — Cover photograph of June Thompson is credited to John Vachon Contents as taken from this issue’s index are as follows: AMERICAN SPOTLIGHT: Elgin’s Christmas Day Radio Program Has a Cast of Talent Worth $4,308,000 A Year Theatre Guild: Cradle of the Stars “Dear Milkman” – He Gives Us Loyal Service Every Day Cactus [...]
1948/12/21 — Cover photograph of Jane Greer is credited to Bob Sandburg Contents as taken from this issue’s index are as follows: AMERICAN SPOTLIGHT: Atomic Ore Discovered in Colorado! – For the First Time, America Has Enough High-Grade Uranium for Self-Suffiency in the Atomic Age WORLD SPOTLIGHT: Winter Vacation – Frankie and Johnny O’Rear Find [...]
1948/12/07 — Cover photograph of Barbara Ann Scott is credited to John Vachon Contents as taken from this issue’s index are as follows: AMERICAN SPOTLIGHT: Santa Anita – The World’s Richest Race Track by Dan Fowler The Presidency – The Roosevelt Era — Part 6 of 6 — by Stegan Lorant Church Thanksgiving at Upper [...]
1947/07/08 — Cover photograph is of Mary Hartline Contents as taken from this issue’s index are as follows: AMERICAN SPOTLIGHT: LOOK Cartoons Stassen Talks World Politics in Iowa Fun on the Beach Toys Help Big Business Washington Party for France Maine Coast Schooner Cruise COllege Election It Happened Here The Evolution of the Motor Bus [...]
1947/01/07 — Cover photograph is of Susan Hope Smith Contents as taken from this issue’s index are as follows: AMERICAN SPOTLIGHT: LOOK Cartoons What Are Your Chances in 1947? Our New Board of Directors – These 9 Republicans Face a Tough Job by Richard Wilson How You Will Travel in 1947 LOOK Calendar for 1947 [...]
1946/08/20 — Cover photograph of Gene Kelly is credited to Frank Bauman Contents as taken from this issue’s index are as follows: AMERICAN SPOTLIGHT: LOOK Cartoons Central Park Revolt in Texas – Ex-President Rainey of the University Fights for Academic Freedom Death of a Mother The LOOK Forum – What Are the First Two Things [...]
1946/01/08 — Cover photograph of high-school sention Tom Bergstedt is credited to Frank Bauman Contents as taken from this issue’s index are as follows: AMERICAN SPOTLIGHT: LOOK’s Cartoon Almanac for 1946 Youth Ponders an Atomic Future You Can Fix Your Home in 1946 These Will Be America’s Top 10 Men in 1946 I Predict–A New [...]
1945/09/18 — Cover photograph of Charles W. Stark, Jr. is credited to Rudy Arnold Contents as taken from this issue’s index are as follows: NATIONAL SPOTLIGHT: Americans, Inc. 1 — German Americans WORLD SPOTLIGHT: The R.A.F. Hits Hard City Bombed to Flame NATIONAL DEFENSE: 44 Ways to Beat Hitler by Edgar Ansel Mowrer How Bad [...]
1945/08/21 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: Cover photograph of Lizabeth Scott is by Andre de Dienes Contents as taken from this issue’s index are as follows: AMERICA AT WAR: LOOK Cartoons Cattle Brands The Men Around Truman –The President’s 11 Favorite Advisors A Weeping Widow Gets a Medal Autograph Collector — About 14-year old boy who writes [...]
1944/01/11 — Cover painting of wounded U.S. Navy ensign was painted by Albert W. Hampson Contents as taken from this issue’s index are as follows: AMERICA AT WAR: What’s Ahead for You and Me? by Chester Bowles A Nation on the Move – The Railway Conductor Faces One of 1944′s Toughest Jobs Labor Looks Ahead [...]
1941/10/07 — Cover photograph of Linda Dean is credited to Mead Maddick Lownds Contents as taken from this issue’s index are as follows: NATIONAL SPOTLIGHT: Fire – Hitler’s Strongest Weapon-_America’s Fiercest Saboteur by Eliot Ness and Jo Chamberlin 30 College Students and Mrs. Roosevelt Americans, Inc. II — Scandinavian Americans WORLD SPOTLIGHT: Bermuda – a [...]
1941/09/09 — Cover photograph of Gale Storm and Betty Ann Anderson is credited to Earl Theisen Contents as taken from this issue’s index are as follows: NATIONAL SPOTLIGHT: Roosevelt’s 10 Greatest Mistakes by Carlisle Bargeron WORLD SPOTLIGHT: Low on the War NATIONAL DEFENSE: Why We Will Fight Japan–Soon by Hallett Abend This Is Why Our [...]
1941/05/06 — Cover photograph of Anita Sympson and a Beechcraft biplane is credited to Fred LaTour Contents as taken from this issue’s index are as follows: NATIONAL SPOTLIGHT: Meet the People WORLD SPOTLIGHT: The War at Sea Exclusive Color Photos from Inside Russia NATIONAL DEFENSE: New York’s Blueprint for National Defense Dressing the Army SPORTS: [...]
1940/01/02 — Cover photograph of Judy Garland is credited to Willinger Contents as taken from this issue’s index are as follows: AMERICAN SPOTLIGHT: Labor Needs a Peacemaker by Stanley High Calendar for 1940 The Dies Committee – How American Is It? by Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen John Black’s Body – An Anti-War Book [...]
1938/11/08 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: Volume 2, Number 23 of LOOK Magazine, from the early days when it consisted entirely of photo-essays. Paging through the issue some of the contents are as follows: “Twenty Years of WAR — 1918-1938″ — 6-pages highlighting problems over the past twenty years ending with a half page of text titled [...]
1938/09/13 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: Volume 2, Number 19 of LOOK Magazine, from the early days when it consisted entirely of photo-essays. Paging through the issue some of the contents are as follows: “Yellowstone National Park Completes Its 66th Season as The Nation’s Most Famous Vacation Spot” — 2-pages “Aimee Semple McPherson — I Am God’s [...]
1938/08/16 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: Volume 2, Number 17 of LOOK Magazine, from the early days when it consisted entirely of photo-essays. Paging through the issue some of the contents are as follows: “Head G-Man Tells You — How to Guard Your Child Against Kidnappers — At LOOK’s Request, J. Edgar Hoover Gives 20 Ideas to [...]
1938/07/05 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: Volume 2, Number 14 of LOOK Magazine, from the early days when it consisted entirely of photo-essays. Paging through the issue some of the contents are as follows: “The Thrilling Story of Spies” with photos of Mata Hari, Claude France, Edith Cavell, carrier pigeons; 2-pages titled “Tricks of the Spy’s Trade”; [...]
1938/05/24 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: Volume 2, Number 11 of LOOK Magazine, from the early days when it consisted entirely of photo-essays. Paging through the issue some of the contents are as follows: “WPA Workers Conquer Ohio’s 54-Year-Old Mine-Fire” — 2-pages “300,000,000 Catholics Pray for Pope Pius’ Health” — 2-pages “Mexico’s Greatest Bullfight” — 2-pages “If [...]
