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1942-01-05 Life Magazine Contents

1942/01/05 — Cover featuring “Wanted: 50,000 Nurses” is credited to Eliot Elisofon

Contents of this issue are as follows:

THE WEEK’S EVENTS:
War in the Pacific

  • First War Pictures in Pacific by Bob Landry
  • “The First Ten Days of the War at Sea” by Richard Wilcox
  • Clean-up Crews at Pearl Harbor Speed Refitting and Repair
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • Prime Minister Churchill Addresses US Congress
  • War in the Far East Hinges on Manila and on Singapore
  • CLOSE-UP:

  • Washington Goes to War by Milton Mayer
  • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Japan’s Industries Are All Geared to War
  • HANDBOOK FOR AMERICANS:

  • Aides Relieve Nursing Shortage
  • NATURE:

  • The Woods in Winter
  • BOOKS:

  • “Lincoln, His Life in Photographs” by Stefan Lorant – includes 5 nearly full-page photos of Lincoln, year-by-year, 1860-1865 (except ’62), with captions at bottom
  • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: These People’s Lives Were Touched by LIFE in 1941
  • LIFE Goes Riding on a Navy Recruiting Train
  • Pictures to the Editors
  • Notable advertising includes: 2-page ad for Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck in classic Ball of Fire, Mimeograph duplicator ad “It goes where the Navy goes” illustrated by Norman Price, and a Lucky Strikes ad on the back cover. NOTE: An * denotes ad is smaller than a full-page.

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