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1944-05-08 Life Magazine Contents

1944/05/08 — Cover photograph featuring Hattie Carnegie Suit in Fashion is credited to Philippe Halsman

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

  • The Biggest Navy
  • Editorial: Avery vs. U.S.
  • The Allies Talk
  • Wedding in Cuba
  • Betty Grable’s Baby
  • Dieppe Invasion Lesson
  • First Good Pictures of Argentine Quints

    • ARTICLE:

  • Europe’s Children Are Hungry by Dorothy Dunbar Bromley

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • General Douglas MacArthur by Noel F. Busch

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Mark Twain – 9 full pages packed with photos of mostly the real Mark Twain, though some of Fredric March as the movie version

    • SCIENCE:

  • “Explored” Corsair

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • American Designers

    • THEATER:

  • “Carmen Jones” – Includes 4 full-page (with caption at bottom), full-color illustrations by Covarrubias

    • ARMY & NAVY:

  • Engineers in Greenland

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Couple Records 25 Wedding Anniversaries
  • LIFE’s Reports: Red Army General Rogov by Richard Lauterbach
  • LIFE Goes to a Reformatory Revue
  • Pictures to the Editors