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1942-11-16 Life Magazine Contents

1942/11/16 — Cover photograph featuring Vests in Fashion is credited to Walter Sanders

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

  • The U.S.A. Goes Republican
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • Congress Passes Greatest Tax Levy in U.S. History
  • War Takes Turn for Better
  • Commander Shea’s Last Letter to His Son
  • Mrs. Roosevelt in England
  • Army Opens Biggest Induction Center in N.Y.’s Grand Central Palace
  • The Dardanelles – War Laps at Turkey’s Trouble Spot
  • New Kind of Well Delivers Water to Rural War Plants

    • ARTICLES:

  • Letters from U.S. Commander on Guadalcanal by Major General Vandegrift
  • Life and Deat of the USS “Yorktown” by John Field

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Amphibious War – Geddes Models Explain Land & Sea Attack

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Fuel Shortage Revives Old Fabric and Styles

    • PRESS:

  • Brief History of 100 Year Old Weekly “Illustrated London News”

    • AVIATION:

  • The Gremlins Make Trouble for Wartime Fliers
  • Interceptor Planes – Teamwork and Precision Destroy Enemy Bombers

    • MOVIES:

  • Varga Girls Come to Life in “Du Barry Was a Lady” – Alberto Vargas in photos with several of the models

    • THEATER:

  • Cry Havoc

    • ART:

  • River Jordan Mural by Julien Binford

    • SPORTS:

  • Checker King Hopper Gives Pointers to Marines

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Teale Photographs Insects
  • LIFE’s Reports: My Trip to Panama by Jinx Falkenburg
  • LIFE Goes to a Royal Wedding in Brazil
  • Pictures to the Editors
  • Two page color ad for Niblets corn includes large image “Great Spirit of the Cornlands” as painted by N.C. Wyeth for the Minnesota Valley Canning Company