1940-07-08 Life Magazine Contents

1940/07/08 — Cover photograph featuring Admiral Harold Stark is credited to Harris & Ewing

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

Revolutionary Battlefields Mark Our Fight for Freedom

LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World

U.S. Aviation Gets 318 New Merchants

German Troops Enter Paris

The Collapse of France

Debutantes Are Previewed as “Little Season” Gets Under Way

The Defense of America by Major George Eliot Fielding

PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

Republican Convention – Wendell Willkie is the People’s Choice

EXPLORATION:

Admiral Byrd ‘s Antarctic Expedition Finds 900 Miles of New Coastline

SPORTS:

Sargeant College Girls Learn How to Improve Healt of Nation

Alfred Vanderbilt’s Belmont Makes Horse Racing Popular

EDUCATION:

One of America’s 165,000 Graduates Gets Degree at U.S.C.

THEATER:

“Keep Off the Grass”

MEDICINE:

Powdered Blood Serum Solves problem of Battlefield Surgeons

MODERN LIVING:

Roller-Skate Dancing Starts Bloomers Fad

OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

Letters to the Editors

Speaking of Pictures: New York From Four Miles Up

LIFE Goes to a Party at Robert Ripley ‘s

Pictures to the Editors