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1942-10-19 Life Magazine Contents

1942/10/19 — Cover photograph featuring Sandbagged Sphinx is credited to Robert Landry

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

  • U.S. High Altitude Bombers Hit Nazis
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • Remains of Jaime Nuno Are Taken from U.S Cemetery for Re-Burial
  • U.S. Troops Occupy Andreanof Islands
  • The Right and Wrong Way to Stop Whiskey
  • President Awards First Merchant Marine Distinguished Service Medal
  • Sikorsky’s Helicopter is Easier to Drive Than Auto
  • Fur Union Works Overtime to make Vests for Sailors
  • Rocks and Sandbags Protect Sphinx against Bombs

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Governor Stassen of Minnesota by Jack Alexander

    • POEM:

  • “The Murder of Lidice” by Edna St. Vincent Millay – Over 7 pages, though all half pages

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Steel – From Ore to Armaments
  • The War Makes Trouble for Catholic Quebec

    • THEATER:

  • “The Eve of St. Mark”

    • SPORTS:

  • War Plant Worker Sets World’s Javelin Record

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Junior Miss Styles

    • NAVY:

  • Merchantman Becomes Aircraft Carrier “Charger”

    • ART:

  • Christmas Cards by Men in Armed Forces Reflect Service Life

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Stage Handouts in the 1880s
  • LIFE’s Reports: Japan’s Divine Mission by Paul M. Anderson
  • LIFE Visits Chicago With a Serviceman
  • Pictures to the Editors