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1949-04-26 Look Magazine Contents

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 in the Heart by His Own Pencil, a Denver Boy is Saved by Presence of Mind and Able Surgery
  • Why Harry Truman Needs a Hair Shirt by Richard Wilson
  • Radio Is Doomed…But Its Stars Will Be Tops in Television, by Merlin H. Aylesworth – Includes a larger (2/3 of a page) black & white photo of Bert Parks which is credited to Stanley Kubrick
  • Taft-Hartley Aims Still Popular With Workers by Claude Robinson

    • WORLD SPOTLIGHT:

  • The Resurrection – The Stirring Easter Story Holds New Meaning for Men in These Troubled Times by Fulton Oursler
  • Is Evita Peron Through? by Vincent de Pascal

    • STRICTLY PERSONAL:

  • Stop the Music – It Takes 103 Persons to Produce This Popular Radio Quiz Show
  • The Biggest Thief in Town

    • FASHIONS AND BEAUTY:

  • Beachwear, New Knitting Craze
  • Look-in-Bags – The Peekaboo Principle in Handbags

    • ART:

  • The Resurrection – Illustrations from the Work of Georges Rouault

    • FOOD AND HOMEMAKING:

  • Spices – 16,777,216 Flavor Combinations Are Possible from 33 Basic Spices

    • SPORTS:

  • Is The Yankee Empire Crumbling? For 25 Years the Yankee Baseball Dynasty Meant Wealth, Organization and Champions – Takes up all or part of 6 pages and loaded with photos of Yankee legends
  • 1949 Baseball Forecast by Tim Cohane – Cohane picks the Red Sox and the Braves in his annual preview

    • DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters and Pictures to the Editor
  • Photoquiz
  • LOOK Applauds
  • Meet the People
  • Photocrime
  • LOOK Movie Review: Champion with Kirk Douglas and Marilyn Maxwell
  • Movie Guide
  • Record Guide
  • Sources of LOOK’s Pictures
  • Half-page Cream of Kentucky Whiskey ad illustrated by Norman Rockwell (black & white)
  • Chesterfield Cigarettes ad on back cover features large color image of John Lund