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1940-03-04 Life Magazine Contents

1940/03/04 — Cover photograph featuring Springtime Hats is credited to George Karger

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

  • Dewey Makes Triumphal Tour Through the West
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • Soccer Goalie Bites the Dust in Beunos Aires Championship
  • British Destroyer Rescues Seamen from German Prison Ship
  • King & Queen Relax at London Show, “Funny Side Up”
  • Home Front Acclaims Men of “Ajax” and “Exeter”
  • Peking Gives Wu Pei-fu, China’s Honest Warlord, Princely Funeral

    • ,li>Smeltania Fishermen Build City on Ice

    PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Miami and Miami Beach – Biggest U.S. Winter Resort Has Biggest Boom

    • WAR ADVENTURE:

  • “The Voyage of the City of Flint” by Captain Gainard

    • ANTHROPOLOGY:

  • Harvard Scientists Measure “The Angel” Wrestler Maurice Tillet

    • THEATER:

  • “The Drunkard” Breaks Record as Long-Run hit in Los Angeles

    • TRANSPORT:

  • New Santa Fe Fast Freight Runs Chicago-Kansas City Overnight

    • ART:

  • Picasso – Spanish Painter’s Big Show Tours the Nation – 4 full pages, 2 in color of Picasso’s work

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Harold Lloyd ‘s Hobbyhorse Craze is Fun But Upsetting
  • Sailor Hats Return with Deeper Crowns, Wider Brims

    • MOVIES:

  • “Dr. Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet” starring Edward G. Robinson

    • MUSIC:

  • Jarmila Novotna, New Opera Star, is Glamor Girl
  • Bonnie Baker Makes New Hits Out of Old Songs

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Priestess Duels with King Cobra
  • LIFE Goes To a Town Meeting at Pelham, Massachussets
  • Pictures to the Editors