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1943-09-20 Life Magazine Contents

1943/09/20 — Cover featuring Cambridge don Charles Seltman is credited to Hans Wild.

Contents of this issue are as follows:

THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • Surrender of Italy – large section (page 25-33) with text, photos, maps and a recap
  • Editorial: Three Americans
  • American Dead at Buna
  • G.O.P. at Mackinac
  • Churchill at Harvard University
  • Railroad Wrecks
  • Paraguay Inauguration
  • Archbishop Spellman’s Travels

    • ARTICLE:

  • America and the Future, part 2 by John K. Jessey

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Carlson of the Raiders by Don Burke

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Cambridge University

    • ART:

  • Cleveland Museum

    • SCIENCE:

  • Mosquitoes

    • MOVIES:

  • Glamazons

    • NIGHT CLUB:

  • Latin Quarter with photos of Harrison & Fisher, the Christiani Family, The Gaudsmith Brothers, and Georgie Price.

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • LIFE’s Reports: The Midwest’s Mood – Part 2 by Eliot Janeway
  • Speaking of Pictures: First Newsreels
  • LIFE Goes on a Canoe Picnic
  • Pictures to the Editors

    • Notable advertising includes: Farnsworth Television which looks more like a security camera for production plants, color ad for Chesterfield Cigarettes featuring stars of “So Proudly We Hail” Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard and Veronica Lake, Elyse Knox for Canon Hosiery, “Have a Coke = Welcome, Friends … or how to get along in Alaska” is a Coca-Cola ad with color illustration by Frank Godwin, “If War Gas Falls from the sky … He’ll Be Ready!” is a pretty creepy ad from Scotch Tape, “This is the Shopper of Blue Ribbon Town .. who has put on her slacks and discarded her gown” is a full-page color ad from Pabst Blue Ribbon with art by Robert O’Reiz, “Salute to the Marines” starring Wallace Beery, Budweiser, color ad for James Cagney in “Johnny Come Lately”, Claudette Colbert in color for North Star, Imperial Whiskey on the inside back cover features and Albert Staehle illustration of a crocodile coming out of the water after a duck, and a Camel Cigarettes ad is on the back cover. NOTE: An * denotes ad is smaller than a full-page.