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1941-12-08 Life Magazine Contents

1941/12/08 — Cover photograph featuring General Douglas MacArthur is credited to Charles W. Miller Studio

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

  • Ancient and Imperial Power of Japan Comes to Showdown with U.S.
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • Aged Virginia Farmer Weeps for Wife beside Ashes of Home
  • The Governor of Georgia Remembers That He Was Once a Flogger Himself
  • The British Attack in Africa
  • Sinking of the American Merchant Ship “Lehigh”
  • Snowy Death in Chilean Andes
  • Traffic Jam outside Baltimore Bomber Plant
  • Courthouse Card Game Is Ended by Law
  • Japan Threatens to Close Burma Road

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • U.S. Navy Air Force

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • General Douglas MacArthur by Clare Booth

    • SCIENCE:

  • New Laboratory Sets Standards for Industrial Health
  • Millionth Map of Hispanic America
  • Police-Sponsored Binge Tests Drunken Driving

    • MOVIES:

  • “Dumbo” – 2 pages in color with 11 small scenes from the film
  • “Custer’s Last Stand”

    • THEATER:

  • “Blithe Spirit”

    • ART:

  • Brazilian Envoy’s Wife Leads Two Lives for Art and Diplomacy

    • BOOKS:

  • “Journey for Margaret” by W.L. White

    • NATURAL HISTORY:

  • Wild Turkeys

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Doris Lee Offers Southern Negro as Source of Fashion Inspiration

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Times Square at Night
  • LIFE’s Reports: The Desert Is Hell by Cecil Brown
  • LIFE Goes To a Free French Show
  • Pictures to the Editors
  • Half-page ad for RC Cola features Our Gang the Little Rascals, with mention of film “Wedding Worries”