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1938-04-11 Life Magazine Contents

1938/04/11 — Cover photograph featuring “Fashion Note” is by Alfred Eisenstaedt

Contents of this issue are as follows:

THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • Herbert Hoover Looks at Europe
  • Czechoslovakia Has Map Trouble
  • Death Takes So-Lin, America’s First Panda
  • A Cyclone Circles Through a Kansas City
  • The Kennedy Kids – America’s Gift to Dimplomacy – Two full pages, one filled with 3 photos and the other with 3 photos and accompanying text, includes large photo of family lining up to be photographed; one of Patricia and Kathleen Kennedy riding horses; one of Bobby, Teddy, and Jean Kennedy looking up at Tower of London; pic of young Bobby and Teddy Kennedy being challenged to box by British classmates; one of young Teddy Kennedy getting camera instructions; one of Joe Kennedy, Jr. bandaged from playing rugby
  • The Windsors in a Box
  • Telegrams Deluge Washington on Reorganization Bill
  • Franco Bombs Barcelona as Prelude to Catalonian Invasion
  • Mrs. Roosevelt – “Greatest American Woman”
  • Initial Craze Results in Double Sales
  • Swedish Minister’s Wife Gets Splashed
  • THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Mexico – Can a Socialist at Home Be a Good Neighbor Abroad?
  • ART:

  • Great Flemish Painters in America: No 3 in LIFE’s Historical Series – Features work of Quentin Massys, Peter Paul Rubens, Teniers the Younger and Anthony Van Dyke over 4 pages of color reproductions of their work, plus an additional page of text
  • SCIENCE:

  • Doctors Present “Birth of a Baby” in Welfare Movie – This is the then infamous 5-page article (the first of which being a reproduction of the announcement sent to subscribers warning them of the coming article) which saw LIFE banned in 33 U.S. cities and cause such an uproar that the resulting publicity pushed the then struggling publication over the top into success. Important photo-essay!
  • New Einstein Book Popularizes Relativity Theory – Includes full-page color photo of Albert Einstein
  • THEATRE:

  • “Prologue to Glory”: Abe Lincoln and Ann Rutledge at New Salem
  • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Fashions: Summer Evening Gowns
  • LIFE Goes on the Road with Helen Hayes
  • Pictures to the Editors
  • Coca-Cola ad on back cover
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