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1938-08-08 Life Magazine Contents

1938/08/08 — Cover featuring Divers in Quarry is credited to Arthur Griffin

Contents of this issue are as follows:

THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • Troops Close Down Iowa’s Maytag Washing-Machine Plant
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • John Warde Comes Down to Earth

  • Czech Youth in Sokol: British Youth Before Royalty
  • Diplomats Ponder Refugee Problem
  • Austrian Refugees Pour into Czechoslovakia
  • Philippines’ Quezon in Japan – Rumania’s Marie in Death
  • China’s Blue-Clad Reds Harry Japan

    • THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:
    Swing – From a Dark Past It Comes Into Its Golden Age – 10-1/2 pages

    THEATER:

  • Sinclair Lewis Acts in His Own Play

    • MOVIES:

  • “Love Finds Andy Hardy” starring Mickey Rooney

    • SCIENCE:

  • Government Launches Health Plan for Needy
  • World’s Highest Scientific Laboratories on Jungfrau

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • U.S. Workmen Replace Foreign Peasants as Fashion Inspriations

    • ART:

  • Charles Sheeler Makes the Commonplace Beautiful

    • SPORT:

  • Swimming Champions – Girls Under 22, Men Over 40
  • Nobody Will Race the World’s Best Sculler

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures — Shooting Sticks
  • LIFE Goes to Manhattan Beach with Joe Day
  • Pictures to the Editors