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1942-11-09 Life Magazine Contents

1942/11/09 — Cover featuring “Mountain Trooper” (Sgt. Walter Prager) is credited to J.R. Eyerman.

Contents of this issue are as follows:

THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • U.S. Fights for the Solomons
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • Whirlaway Wins $10,000 Purse in Lone Race
  • British Begin New Offensive in Egypt
  • U.S. Treasury Silver Hoard Lies Idle as War Uses Outrun Supply
  • Nazis Conscript French Workers

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • General Eisenhower by Lincoln Barnett

    • ARTICLES:

  • The Marines on Guadalcanal by John Hersey
  • The Japanese Zero Plane by Richard Wilcox

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • The Middle West

    • ARMY:

  • Watercolors by Honolulu Artist Ben Norris Show Wartime Airfields
  • U.S. Mountain Troops Train Amid Snow, Ice, and Rocks

    • EDUCATION:

  • U.S. High Schools Organize Students for War Effort

    • MOVIES:

  • Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth Dance in “You Were Never Lovelier”

    • ART:

  • St. Louis City Art Museum
  • Lieut. John Watton Draws Prison Life in Germany

    • MUSIC:

  • Stokowski Conducts Shostakovich’s Seventh Symphony at Camp Young, California

    • ANIMALS:

  • Penny, the Pet Skunk

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Portraits of the Rockettes
  • LIFE’s Reports: U.S. Fliers Bomb Hong Kong by T.H. White
  • LIFE Goes to a Party for Officers at the Ritz
  • People
  • Pictures to the Editors

    • Notable advertising includes: Dixie Cups ad with “Contagion” cobra illustrated by Mario Cooper, full-page for Ginger Rogers & Cary Grant in Once Upon a Honeymoon, and a Lucky Strikes ad on the back cover. NOTE: An * denotes ad is smaller than a full-page.