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1949-08-16 Look Magazine Contents

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: Book of Etiquette for Teen-Age Boys, with Joan Evans
  • Ride of the Rancheros
  • WORLD SPOTLIGHT:

  • F.D.R. – A Growing Legend – People are collecting Franklin D. Roosevelt items; 2-pages of Roosevelt stamps from around the world; 2-pages of Hyde Park photos; some items from the 150-member Franklin D. Roosevelt Collectors’ Association
  • STRICTLY PERSONAL:

  • She Just Won … $49,000.00 in Cash
  • Vaughan Monroe – He Makes a Mint Out of Music
  • Girl Who Never Acted to Be My New Star by Samuel Goldwyn – about Joan Evans
  • Betty Grable – Her Legs Are Her Fortune by Don Fowler – 4 pages including 2 full-page black & white photos, one of Betty posing for a leg shot, one with husband Harry James and daughter Victoria, all dressed as cowboys
  • $5,000 Poodle
  • Baby’s First Broadcast
  • FASHIONS AND BEAUTY:

  • Dali and Fellow Modernists Meet to Introduce Drapery Fabrics
  • New Shoe Bag Does Tricks
  • ART:

  • John Marin Paints at Home
  • FOOD AND HOMEMAKING:

  • Is It Ripe?
  • SPORTS:

  • Audrey Erickson – All-American Girl
  • American Legion – Junior Baseball
  • DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters and Pictures to the Editor
  • LOOK Applauds
  • Photoquiz
  • Photocrime
  • LOOK Movie Review: Rope of Sand with Burt Lancaster and Corinne Calvet
  • Movie Guide
  • Record Guide
  • Sources of LOOK’s Pictures
  • Wheaties ad on inside front cover features Stan Musial. Two black & white photos of Musial, one eating Wheaties for breakfast with family, one gripping a bat with son, Dickie, wearing a Cardinals uniform, then a larger color shot with Dickie in a Cardinals uniform, Musial in street clothes
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