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1938-08-15 Life Magazine Contents

1938/08/15 — Cover featuring Sumerian High Priest is credited to the University of Pennsylvania

Contents of this issue are as follows:

THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • Summer Music Sweeps the Country
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • England Salvages a Dead German Battleship
  • Chinatown Funeral – Mauretania Launching
  • Carnegie Bride in Scotland – Orlando Weber in Milwaukee
  • Boss Crump on a Merry-Go-Round – Tennessee Primary
  • The Yellow River Floods China and Mires Japan
  • Russia and Japan Quarrel with Shot and Shell
  • LIFE Looks Back to the Last Russo-Japanese War
  • Henry Ford and Mother Bloor Have Birthday Parties
  • What Europe’s Four Best Reporters Are Saying About Europe

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  • Marriage in Mysore
  • The Strange Case of Hope Dare

    • THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:
    Diggers – What Archaeologists Are Finding in Yesterday’s Worlds

    SPORTS:

  • Honest Umpires Keep Baseball Honest

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Female Fat Comes Off at a “Milk Farm”
  • ….and That Figure Every Woman Wants
  • Wallpaper – Trick Designs Are New Vogue

    • MOVIES:

  • “Alexander’s Ragtime Band”
  • …and the Real Story of Irving Berlin

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures — Sears, Roebuck’s New Covers
  • A Picture Report on Life Camps
  • LIFE Goes to Lunch at Versailles
  • Pictures to the Editors