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1945-01-01 Life Magazine Contents

1945/01/01 — Cover featuring Soldier Cleaning Gun is credited to David E. Scherman.

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

  • Nazis Attack as Production Lags
  • Editorial: The Fourth New Year
  • Post Offices Pile Up Soldiers’ Unreceived Christmas Packages
  • Jinx Falkenburg Returns from the War
  • State Department’s New Team
  • New 3- Cushion Billiards Champion (Welker Cochran)
  • Jerome Kern’s 40th Anniversary

    • ARTICLE:

  • The Battle of Hurtgen Forest by William Walton

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Stalin at 65 by Richard E. Lauterbach

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Athens’ Ancient Art

    • ART:

  • Calendars – includes color illustrations of calendar scenes by Norman Rockwell (2), Maxfield Parrish, and Andrew Loomis and also pin-up illustrations by Rolf Armstrong, Zoe Mozart, and Earl Moran

    • MOVIE:

  • “National Velvet” with Elizabeth Taylor

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Dali Paints the Seven Lively Arts
  • LIFE Records an Anglo-American Romance
  • Miscellany

    • Notable advertising includes: Chris-Craft Corporation features a color illustration of a 36-ft. Double Stateroom Enclosed Cruiser, color ad for “Frenchman’s Creek” with Joan Fontaine & Arturo de Cordova, color illustration of a tractor by Donald Mills for International Harvester, color ad for “Belle of the Yukon” with Randolph Scott, Gypsy Rose Lee and others, two page b&w Pictorial Report on “Engineered Production” by Chrysler Corporation, and a Lucky Strike Cigarettes ad on the back cover. NOTE: An * denotes ad is smaller than a full-page.