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1942-03-23 Life Magazine Contents

1942/03/23 — Cover photograph featuring “How to Make Plane Models” is credited to Charles E. Steinheimer

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

  • U.S. Troops Find War in Australia
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • England’s Queen Mother Stands Sponsor for Newest Grandchild
  • Negro Pilots Get Wings at Tuskegee Institute – 2pages
  • Yards Rush New Ships and Plug Old Ones
  • Mementos from the Malayan Campaign
  • Stage and Screen Stars Help Entertain Soldiers
  • London Chimney Sweeps Look with Dismay on Week’s Soap Ration

    • ARTICLE:

  • An English Journalist Reports on America by William Hickey

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Tom Connally by Robert Coughlin

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Industrial Chemistry Meets Demands of War
  • Florida at War

    • SPORTS:

  • Brooklyn Dodgers Go to Havana for Spring Training – 2 full pages plus two more half-pages

    • MOVIES:

  • “The Invaders

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Homemade Hats

    • ART:

  • Abandoned Railroad Station Is Sculptor Louis Jonas’ Studio

    • EDUCATION:

  • High-School Students Build Plane Models

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Soldiers Cartoon Army Life
  • LIFE’s Reports: Exodus of the Brongs by Henry B. Cole
  • LIFE Goes to an Iceboating Championship
  • Pictures to the Editors
  • 2-page ad for Niblets Corn includes large, though less than full-page, Norman Rockwell illustration, “Boyhood Eating Thrill, 1898”