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1940-06-10 Life Magazine Contents

1940/06/10 — Cover featuring Emperor Hirohito is credited to Underwood & Underwood

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

  • Americans Face Choice Between Democracy and Dictatorship at Home
  • What Americans Said and Did as Nazis Triumphed
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • German Private Rides Away With a French Flag Captured in Battle
  • The Battle of Flanders
  • …The German Attack
  • Italian Students Clamor For War Against Allies
  • Refugees: An Army of Human Misery Gets Millions of Fresh Recruits
  • Nazi Fifth Column and Communist Allies Are Active in Mexico
  • “My Escape from Norway” by Sigrid Undset
  • Nazis Mop up Norway
  • CLOSE-UP:

  • Emporer Hirohito
  • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • R.A.F.: New Glory Won in Britain by “Cloud Cavalry”
  • MODERN LIVING:

  • Nylon: Women Hope New Yarn Will Halve Their Stocking Bill
  • THEATER:

  • “Louisiana Purchase”
  • ART:

  • Sculptor Milles Weds Two Great Rivers in New St. Louis Fountain
  • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • From LIFE’s Correspondents
  • Speaking of Pictures: Cattle Branding is Heraldry of the West
  • LIFE Goes to a Mountain Funeral
  • Pictures to the Editors
  • Notable advertising includes: American Airlines ad inside the front cover with color illustration by Albert Dorne, The Mountain Boys by Paul Webb for Kellogg’s All Bran*, Birds-Eye with comic by Harry Beckhoff, Kellogg’s Rice Krispies ad in color with early Snap, Crackle & Pop, Ginger Rogers for 1847 Rogers Bros., Lucky Strike, Schenley’s Cream of Kentucky Bourbon illustrated by Norman Rockwell, Li’l Abner by Al Capp for Cream of Wheat, 2-page ad for Schlitz Beer in the middle of the issue is illustrated by Charles Addams, Symbols of Security from United Aircraft Corporation*, and a Real Silk Hosiery ad is on the back cover. NOTE: An * denotes ad is smaller than a full-page.

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