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1942-09-21 Life Magazine Contents

1942/09/21 — Cover featuring Iran’s Queen Fawzia is credited to Cecil Beaton

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

  • The Real War on Inflation Starts
  • President Roosevelt Cits Lieut. Powers as Coral Sea Hero
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • Nazis Hurl Tschaikovsky’s Bust and Music from His Home Near Moscow
  • Army Takes Over Chicago’s Stevens Hotel
  • WPB Order Ends Production of Zoot Suits
  • Nazi Radio Blasts Neutral Sweden
  • Cecil Beaton Photographs Shah of Iran and His Beautiful Queen

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS:

  • Georgia Court
  • Railroads at War

    • BOOKS:

  • “See Here, Private Hargrove”
  • “A Short Guide to Great Britain

    • ARTICLE:

  • Konigstein Prison by Michael Bernin

    • NAVY:

  • WAVES Uniforms

    • ARMY:

  • Rifle Marksmanship

    • ART:

  • Floyd Davis Paints US Forces in Bermuda

    • MOVIES:

  • “Moscow Strikes Back”

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Stage School
  • LIFE’s Reports: Two Weeks in Tokyo by Phyllis Argall
  • LIFE Goes to a Land Corps Party
  • Pictures to the Editors

    • Notable advertising includes: Gruen the Precision Watch ad has large color war-themed illustration by Melbourne Brindle, “No Use Adolf — You Can’t Shut Out That Hum!” from Electric Companies Under American Business Management showing a large cartoon of Hitler, Pan American Clippers, “The Strongest Man in the World” illustrated by Douglass Crockwell for General Electric, United Air Lines, Greyhound, and a Camel Cigarettes ad is on the back cover. NOTE: An * denotes ad is smaller than a full-page.