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1942-12-21 Life Magazine Contents

1942/12/21 — Cover photograph featuring Lonely Wife is credited to John Phillips

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

  • War Manpower Commission Integrates Civilian and Military Manpower
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • Admiral Nimitz Dances With USO Girl at Navy Recreation Center in Hawaii
  • U.S. Remembers Pearl Harbor Day with Ships and Prayers
  • U.S. Negro Troops Are Based in Liberia
  • Battle for Tunisia…the Victory Runs Into Trouble
  • African Airfields Are Headache to Pilots
  • ODT Asks Nonessential Travelers to Stay at Home
  • Secretary Stimson Moves into War Department’s New Pentagon Building
  • Las Vegas Gambling Booms With Wartime Prosperity

    • ARTICLE:

  • Geopolitics by Joseph J. Thorndike Jr.

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Aftermath of War

    • SCIENCE:

  • Carbon Dioxide Gas Performs Many Wartime Functions

    • ART:

  • American Artists Put on War-Poster Campaign – Includes 2 pages of color with 9 poster reproductions on each of those pages

    • MOVIES:

  • “In Which We Serve”

    • WAR LIVING:

  • Lonely Wife: New Book Tells Wives of Servicemen How to Get Along Alone

    • ARMY:

  • “Wrong Way” Murphy Shows Officer Candidates What Not to Do

    • THEATER:

  • English Comedienna Gracie Fields Mugs and Sings

    • SPORTS:

  • Lewis Vaughan Teaches Swimming to Armed Forces

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Men in Khaki Take Over “The Women”
  • LIFE’s Reports: First U.S. Raid on Italy by Jack Belden
  • People
  • LIFE Visits the Bowery
  • Pictures to the Editors