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1942-07-20 Life Magazine Contents

1942/07/20 — Cover featuring “Short Coat” is credited to Walter Sanders.

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

  • Axis Opens Its Big 1942 Drive
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • U.S. Air General Brereton Goes to Work in New Delhi
  • Japanese Pictures Show Fall of Bataan and Attack on Pearl Harbor
  • “The Horrors”: England’s Flattened Cities Clean Up Wreckage

    • ARTICLE:

  • The Russian Battlefront by C.L. Sulzberger

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • The Jeep

    • MOVIES:

  • Teresa Wright Grows to Stardom

    • THEATER:

  • “This is the Army”

    • BOOKS:

  • “The World at My Fingertips”

    • SPORTS:

  • Cody’s Kids Are Best U.S. Swim Team
  • All-American Golf Course Is Selected by U.S. Greenkeepers — Eighteen Best Holes Selected by U.S. Greenskeepers

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Short Coat Helps Solve Packing Space Problem

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Mail from Home Brings Kisses to U.S. Fighting Men
  • Letters to the Editors
  • LIFE Goes to a McGuffey Picnic
  • Pictures to the Editors

    • Notable advertising includes: “The Soldier Whose Letter Never Comes” ad from Parker Pens, and a Lucky Strike ad on the back cover illustrated by Thomas Hart Benton. NOTE: An * denotes ad is smaller than a full-page.