1939-08-14 Life Magazine Contents

1939/08/14 — Cover featuring Busiest Baby (Sandra Lee Henville) is credited to Peter Stackpole

Contents of this issue are as follows:

NEWS OF THE WEEK:

Public Loses Patience as Labor Factions Row and Auto Workers Riot

LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World

Supreme Court Justice Douglas Crowns “Miss Washington”

California Police Fight Gambling Ships; Army Air Corps Celebrates Anniversary

U.S. Senators Vote for President in LIFE Poll

Sweden Honors Calisthenics King

Matchek, leader of the Croats, Threatens Secession from Yugoslavia

Albania’s Royal Family Treks Around Europe in Exile

PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

The New U.S. Army Division

SPORTS:

Pretty Girls Set Records at National Swimming Meet- Includes a photo of 17-year-old Esther Williams

SCIENCE:

Hay Fever Season Begins

ART:

Murals of Oregon HIstory Embellish Its New Capitol

GEOGRAPHY:

Alps and Their Passes Make a Theater of War

…Italy Tries to Get Rid of a German Minority

MOVIE:

“Sandy” Henville is Hollywood’s Busiest Baby

“Stanley and Livingstone”

MODERN LIVING:

Natural Waistline Revives Belt Trick

OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

Letters to the Editors

Speaking of Pictures: Air Views of African Game

LIFE Goes to a Ku Klux Klan Initiation

Pictures to the Editors