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1945-03-05 Life Magazine Contents

1945/03/05 — Cover featuring Flying over San Francisco’s Presidio is credited to William C. Shrout.

Contents of this issue are as follows:

THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • Santos Tomas is Delivered
  • Editorial: “Jobs for All”
  • Red Army Birthday Celebrated with Six-Foot Cake
  • Roosevelt Sees Arab Leaders in Middle East (FDR is shown in separate photos with King Farouk, Haile Selassie and Ibn Saud)
  • Iwo Jima
  • The First Three Days by Robert Sherrod
  • Dietrich at Front
  • Australian Drought

    • ARTICLE:

  • Denmark by Hans Bendix

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • FDR’s Daughter by John Chamberlain

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • The House of Colonna

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Wrap-Arounds

    • SCIENCE:

  • Superglue

    • MOVIE:

  • “Fighting Lady”

    • SPORTS:

  • Alan Ford of Yale

    • ARMY & NAVY:

  • “The Ballad of Rodger Young”

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Eisenstaedt Catches Graceful Snow Patters
  • LIFE Reports: Radio Luxembourg by Robert Colwell
  • LIFE Visits a Serious Glamour Girl
  • Miscellany: Baby Gibbon is Thriving

    • Notable advertising includes: Nash Motors on inside front cover has color illustration by Bingham, Phil Baker for General Electric GM Radio, Chester Morris for Worcestershire Sauce*, Gem Razors and Blades with Peter Arno artwork, 2-page color ad for Chevrolet shows war planes and other war scenes, Albert Dorne color illustration for General Motors’ Frigidaire, Bestform bras & foundations with b&w illustration by George Petty*, color illustration by William Campbell for Autocar Trucks, “Winged Javelin” for North American Aviation has a sharp color illustration of a P-51 Mustang in a “screaming dive”, “Whiskey on its Way to Age” painted by Robert L. Benney for Imperial Hiram Walker’s Whiskey, RH Collins illustration for Schenley Reserve on the inside back cover, and a Chesterfield Cigarettes ad on the back cover. NOTE: An * denotes ad is smaller than a full-page.