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1940-04-29 Life Magazine Contents

1940/04/29 — Cover photograph featuring Winston Churchill is credited to Margaret Bourke-White

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

  • Germany and Britain Push a Desperate Race Against Time into Norway
  • The Action in Norway by Major George Fielding Eliot
  • The Prospect in Norway by Captain B.H. Liddell Hart
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • Mrs. James Roosevelt Sits for Portrait
  • The Lake Shore Limited Kills 30, Injures 100
  • British Farmers Plough Their Fields by Night
  • British Bluenoses Crack Down in Wartime Nudity
  • Milwaukee’s Lyric Mayor Lifts His Voice in Song
  • Republicans Make First Campaign Movie of 1940
  • Reliefers in Pittsburgh Rebel Against Pennsylvania Milk Act
  • CLOSE-UP:

  • Raeder the Raider
  • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • World Sea Power
  • MODERN LIVING:

  • Increasing Zest for Garden Work Creates New Field for Stylists
  • THEATER:

  • “Ladies in Retirement’
  • SCIENCE:

  • Electron Microscope Magnifies Invisible World 25,000 Times
  • ART:

  • A Portrait of Katharine Cornell
  • The Du Bois Family is an Art Foursome
  • RADIO:

  • Dartmouth Students Ape Big-Time Shows
  • SPORTS:

  • Girl Swimmers from New York Set New World’s Record
  • Wrestlers Wear Strange Costumes for a New Gag – Just a single page, but with color photos of Lion-Hearted Italian, Golden Horror, The Bald-Headed Santa, Mephistopheles the Red Devil and Mustafa the Terrible Turk
  • BOOKS:

  • “Elizabeth” of German Garden Fame
  • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Tricky Props Create Illusions
  • LIFE Goes to a Boys’ Battle in Waterbury, Connecticut
  • Pictures to the Editors
  • Full-page ad for Cream of Kentucky Bourbon illustrated by Norman Rockwell
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