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1942-11-23 Life Magazine Contents

1942/11/23 — Cover featuring “The Puritan Spirit” is credited to Fritz Goro.

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

  • U.S. Takes Over North Africa
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • Flying Fortress Bombs U-Boat Hideouts in Lorient
  • World War I Veterans Turn in Helmets for Scrap
  • Movie Shows Frontier Fighting in New Guinea
  • One-Girl Farm Solves Manpower Problem
  • Boilermakers’ Union Grows Rich and Powerful in Wartime Boom

    • ARTICLE:

  • The Battle of the River by John Hersey

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS:

  • The Puritan Spirit
  • Life on Midway Island

    • THEATER:

  • “The Damask Cheek”

    • EDUCATION:

  • Indiana University: LIFE Looks at Doomed Campus Folkways

    • SCIENCE:

  • Simple Home Experiments Illustrate Basic Laws

    • ART:

  • Cartoonist Abner Dean

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Axis Villains Fill Hollywood’s Rogue Gallery
  • LIFE’s Reports: Shipwrecked in the Russian Arctic by Ross Russell
  • LIFE Goes to Hill and Hollow Farm
  • Pictures to the Editors

    • Notable advertising includes: Half-page Pepsi ad illustrated by O. Soglow*, 2-page ad for Model Smoking Tobacco with large color image of Elyse Knox, full-page for Rita Hayworth and Fred Astaire inYou Were Never Lovelier, General Electric ad illustrated by Douglass Crockwell, full-page ad for Veronica Lake and Fredric March in I Married a Witch, full-page color ad featuring Claudette Colbert for Royal Crown Cola. NOTE: An * denotes ad is smaller than a full-page.