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1939-05-01 Life Magazine Contents

1939/05/01 — Cover featuring Joe DiMaggio is credited to Carl Mydans

Contents of this issue are as follows:

THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • The Italo-Albanian War Takes Its Place in World History
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • Baseball Season Opens: Myers of Cincinnati is the First Casualty
  • California Crew Beats Washington; New King; New Justice
  • Outdoor Sculpture Show; Ghostly Wedding; D.A.R. Salute Flag
  • The House of CommonsHears Chamberlain Guarantee Balkan Borders
  • World’s Fair Begins to Get Its Girls
  • Film Shows How Italian Aeroplanes Helped Win Spanish War
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. Plays the Devil as Mother Models Clothes
  • Britain’s Royal Youngsters Get Photographed

    • THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Russia’s Army: Will it Fight with the Democracies and Is it Any Good?

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Joe DiMaggio — Article spreads over 8 pages opening with a full-page photo of the large DiMaggio family and leading into shots from Joltin’ Joe’s life from childhood to the big leagues. On the second two pages of the article are a pretty neat 12-photo sequence at the top of the page showing DiMaggio’s swing and follow through from start to finish and another 12-photo sequence at the bottom of the page showing him catching and throwing a ball in the field. Another interesting shot later in the article is of DiMaggio with heavyweight champ Joe Louis. Plenty of text here too, first-class photo-essay, if you’ve never come across it before you’ll be quite happy with it.

    • ART:

  • Corcoran Gallery in Washinton Awards Largest Cash Prizes
  • A Dutchman’s Wartime Cartoons Take on Fresh Reality

    • NATURAL HISTORY:

  • California Zoologist Studies the Life of an American Desert

    • SPORTS:

  • Water Skiers Do Acrobatics on Mediterranean

    • MOVIE:

  • Union Pacific

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Women Wear Fisherman’s Nets

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Giant Puppets
  • LIFE Goes to the French Elections
  • LIFE’s Pictures: An Index
  • Pictures to the Editors
  • Loretta Young for 1847 Rogers Bros
  • Half-page ad for Old Gold Cigarettes features Petty Girl
  • 2-page ad for Macy’s including one page filled with color photographs
  • Lucky Strike Cigarettes ad on the back cover