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1940-03-11 Life Magazine Contents

1940/03/11 — Cover photograph featuring French Soldier (Poilu) is credited to Stedman Jones

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

  • The Last Agony of Fighting Finland Is Wrapped in the Beauty of Snow

  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • Vivien Leigh Wins an Oscar for her Scarlett – Just a single page, it’s a full-page black & white photo of Leigh putting her Oscar on her mantel
  • Anzacs Arrive in Egypt to Join Allies in Near East
  • Fenske Wins Indoor Mile Championship As Cunningham Takes a Spill
  • British Democracy Respects Conscientious Objectors

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • The French Front – 2,000,000 Men in Arms Wait for the Great Assault
  • …Spring Styles in Strategies by Major George Fielding Eliot

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Joachim von Ribbentrop

    • SPORTS:

  • Beagles
  • Clarence Capes Is Best Skate Sailor

    • THEATER:

  • Betty Hutton Rips Into Miss Muffet
  • George Jean Nathan Writes New Encyclopedia of Broadway

    • MOVIES:

  • LIFE Goes Calling on Jean Arthur in Hollywood – 4 pages of photos
  • The Voices of Pinocchio – 4 pages (all half page with half pages of advertising on the other side)

    • ART:

  • The Death of Dillinger – A Painting for LIFE by Reginald Marsh

    • SCIENCE:

  • Light Control Demonstrator Shows How Lenses and Reflectors Work

    • EDUCATION:

  • Speech School at Northwestern Teaches Students How to Talk

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: These Are from the Album of J.P. Morgan, Jr.
  • LIFE Goes to a Prep School Houseparty
  • Pictures to the Editors