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1938-10-31 Life Magazine Contents

1938/10/31 — Cover featuring Raymond Massey (Abe Lincoln on Broadway) is credited to George Karger

Contents of this issue are as follows:

THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • America Bases Its Naval Strategy on the Caribbean

  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • Picture of the Week: Senator Lodge Puts On a Uniform
  • American Fighters Return from Spain
  • Two World’s Fairs Take Shape
  • The Strange Case of Ruth Etting and the Gimp – 1page with 4 photos

  • Eucharistic Congress Surveys World Catholic Woes
  • The Greatest Turk Since Suleiman Disdains Paradise – features Kamal Ataturk

    • CLOSE-UP:
    Tom Dewey – Galahad from Owosso is White Hope of Republican Party

    ART:

  • American Art Comes of Age – With 8 pages of color reproductions

    • MOVIES:

  • The Sisters starring Bette Davis

    • THEATER:

  • Abe Lincoln in Illinois starring Raymond Massey

    • SPORTS:

  • Texas Wolf Hunt

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Earnings Have a Boom

    • SCIENCE:

  • All-American Canal
  • German Scientists Invent Supermicroscope
  • Swan Fanciers Study a Swan’s Skeleton

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures — The Camera Catches Emotions
  • LIFE Goes to a Spook Party
  • Pictures to the Editors
  • Full-page color ad for Suez starring Tyrone Power, Loretta Young and Annabella