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1945-04-23 Life Magazine Contents

1945/04/23 — Cover photograph featuring President Harry S. Truman is credited to Yousuf Karsh

Contents of this issue are as follows:
THE WEEK’S EVENTS:
THE PRESIDENT’S DEATH – 17 pages of coverage, 15 of them full-pages

  • Going Home
  • The Funeral
  • The Grief
  • The Burial
  • Truman Sworn In as 33rd President
  • World Reaction
  • Soldiers Pray in Cologne Cathedral
  • Editorial
  • San Francisco Conference
  • ARTICLE:

  • Hitler by William S. Schlamm — 10 pages total, though all but the first 2 are half-pages with ads on the other half
  • CLOSE-UP:

  • “Colonel Abe” by Will Lang about Liuet. Colonel Creighton Abrams
  • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Roosevelt’s Men – Photographs by Yousuf Karsh – 9 full pages of portrait photographs, most 4 to a page, but full-page honors for Henry L. Stimson (3/4 page actually as it opens the article), James F. Byrnes, George C. Marshall
  • SCIENCE:

  • Plexiglas
  • ART:

  • Illustrator Edward A. Wilson Interprets Adventure Books – 6 full pages
  • THEATER:

  • “Kiss Them for Me”
  • SPORTS:

  • Phillies Face Tough Season
  • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: New York’s “Miss Subway” is 4 Years Old
  • LIFE Goes on Location with a Western
  • Miscellany: Indiana’s “Dragon” Seeks Liberty After 20 years
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