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1938-05-02 Life Magazine Contents

1938/05/02 — Cover photograph featuring Vice-President John Nance Garner is by Margaret Bourke-White

Contents of this issue are as follows:

THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • The General of the Armies Goes to His Son’s Wedding
  • Labor Spills Its Quota of Blood
  • The Country’s Cartoonists Have Fun with Pump-priming
  • Newspictures of the Week
  • The War Goes On: U.S. Nazis vs. American Veterans
  • 2,000 Germans Go to Sea to Vote “Ja”
  • Easter: Sunrise Services from Coast to Coast
  • Missouri Cockfight

    • THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Railroading – The Southern’s Charlotte Division and How it Runs – 9 pages loaded with photographs

    • SPORT:

  • Washington Out-Rows California
  • The Boston Marathon – No. 3 is No. 1

    • THEATRE:

  • “Of Mice and Men” – The Critics’ Favorite with photo of John Steinbeck

    • SCIENCE:

  • 73,000,000 Germans Live a Synthetic Life

    • ART:

  • Gallatin’s Museum Is All Abstract – With 2 pages of color reproductions including “Three Musicians” by Picasso

    • MOVIES:

  • “Un Carnet de Bal”

    • FASHIONS:

  • A Wave-Cut that Lasts a Lifetime

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Speaking of Fashion: “It’s Spinach”
  • Letters to the Editors
  • LIFE Goes to a Party with Artists in Advertisements
  • Pictures to the Editors
  • Beautiful Chesterfield Cigarettes ad featuring Spencer Tracy on back cover