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1942-03-09 Life Magazine Contents

1942/03/09 — Cover featuring “U.S. Barrage Balloon” is credited to J.R. Eyerman.

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

  • Japanese Carry War to California Coast
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • Joan Fontaine Receives Academy Award
  • Subs Get Another Tanker Off Atlantic Coast
  • Canadians Stage “Nazi” Invasion
  • John Barrymore Meets Daughter Diana on His 60th Birthday
  • Barrage Balloons Guard Sky Over Strategic Areas

    • ARTICLES:

  • Sir Stafford Cripps Answers Twenty Questions on Russia for LIFE
  • Rescue from Howland Island by Thomas Bederman

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS:

  • Maine in Winter
  • How to Shoot a Machine Gun

    • ART:

  • Texas Sees New Crop of Figure Paintings

    • MOVIES:

  • Carole Lombard’s Last Movie: “To Be Or Not to Be”

    • SPORTS:

  • Table Tennis: Louis Pagliaro Is Great Shot Retriever

    • ANIMALS:

  • Rules for Pet Care During Air Raids

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Florida’s Cypress Gardens
  • LIFE’s Reports: Shape of Women by Lilian Rixey
  • LIFE Goes on Tour with the Philadelphia Symphony
  • Pictures to the Editors

    • Notable advertising includes: Half-page featuring Jean Hersholt for Vaseline Hair Tonic*. NOTE: An * denotes ad is smaller than a full-page.