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1937-06-08 Look Magazine Contents

1937/06/08 — ITEM DESCRIPTION:
Volume 1, Number 8 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:

  • “A Chinese Dentist Pulls a Tooth” is a pretty excruciating looking photo on the inside front cover
  • “Is This Christ’s Shroud?” – 1-page
  • “Some Famous Perfect Features” 1-page.
  • “The Man Who Sells Beauty — John Roberts Powers, Boss of a Thousand Models” 2-pages followed by 1-page titled “Tricks of Modeling” and another page titled “Artists and Models”
  • “Jungle Vengeance…Indians Torture White Women to Death” is 1-page of photos that are supposed to be from Iquitos, Peru in 1920
  • 2-page color center spread is a large picture of Ethel de Pont with some text underneath
  • “George Bernard Shaw — England’s Bad Boy — He Shocks Everybody” 1-page
  • “Hara-Kiri — How a Japanese Warrior Commits Suicide” – 2-pages
  • “Shark — Cannibal of the Sea” and “Do Sharks Eat Men?” is 2-pages of sharks
  • “America’s Favorite Honeymooners — William Powell and Myrna Loy” is 8-pages total of photos of Powell and Loy from their earliest days up to the present, great photo-feature!
  • The back cover previews the next issue and has a large color photo of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
  • Plus several other features.
  • 44 pages total including the covers.