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1940-02-19 Life Magazine Contents

1940/02/19 — Cover photograph featuring Romania’s King Carol and son Mihai is credited to John Walter Sanders

Contents of this issue are as follows:
THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • Candidate Taft Stumps Florida
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • Francis Biddle, New Soliciter General, Passes Painting of Himself on Way to Work
  • British Retrieve Transport Plane Down in African River Jungle
  • Worst Ice Gorges in South’s History Choke Mississippi River
  • Multiple Berths Get Off to Big Start for 1940
  • Truck Falls 200 Feet Off Bridge
  • Herbert Hoover Rallies U.S. Aid for Finns
  • Confucious Say – America Go Crazy Over Chinese Philosopher

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Romania – Germany and Allies Fight Hidden War For Oil

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • King Carol of Romania

    • ART:

  • Grant Wood Paints George Washington and Cherry Tree

    • THEATER:

  • Debutante Gene Tierney Makes Her Entrance in a Broadway Success
  • Unique Stage Sets Steal the Show in “Two on an Island”
  • Gjon Mili Photographs Ballet Dancers at High Speed

    • SPORTS:

  • Bowling

    • SCIENCE:

  • M.I.T. Professor Lays Old Ghosts Made by Camera len’s Reflection

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Advertising Symbols Are Glorified in Prints for Spring Clothes

    • MOVIES:

  • “My Little Chickadee” Brings Back Mae West – With W.C. Fields

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: These By LIFE Prove Facts in “Grapes of Wrath”
  • People
  • LIFE Goes Skiing in New Hampshire
  • Pictures to the Editors