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1938-08-16 Look Magazine Contents

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 Keep Baby Snatchers Away From Your Home” – 3-pages
  • “How I Throw My Fast Ball” by “No Hit” Johnny Vander Meer – 1-page
  • “A Critical Survey of Plastic Surgery” – 3-pages of before and after photos
  • “A New Generation Thrills to Rudolph Valentino in The Sheik” – 2-pages
  • “America’s Most Popular Plays Albie’s Irish Rose and Tobacco Road” – 3-pages
  • “Reformed Playboy Still Plays Too Much Says His Wife” 2-pages about Edna Dunham and Philip M. Plant
  • “The Roosevelt Boys Marry Rich Women” – 1-page
  • “Science Helps the Police Detect Drunken Drivers” – 2-pages
  • “Four Famous Artists Draw a Girl They’ve Never Seen … From This X-Ray Picture of Her” — Each of the artists is pictured: Peter Arno, W.T. Benda, James Montgomery Flagg and McClelland Barclay as is each of their sketches from the X-Ray and on the third and final page of this feature there is a photo of the actual woman that the X-Ray was taken of.
  • “Mending A Dog’s Broken Leg”
  • “There Is No Perfect Figure” includes photos of Sonja Henie, Joan Crawford, Claudette Colbert, and other famous women
  • “The Shoe Shine Boy — The True Story of a Child Who, at 10, Is His Family’s Chief Support”
  • “Hitler Thinks She Has the Ideal Figure” is a large photo of Leni Riefenstahl skiing on the inside back cover.
  • Plus several other features.
  • 52 pages total including the covers.
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