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1945-09-25 Life Magazine Contents

1945/09/25 — Cover featuring Colonel Jimmy Stewart is credited to Peter Stackpole

Contents of this issue are as follows:

THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • New Mexico’s Atomic Bomb Crater
  • The Bombing of Nagasaki by William L. Laurence – 2 pages, article itself one column of text
  • Editorial Some Big Words
  • Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek Toasts China’s Communist Leader
  • General Wainwright’s Return
  • Tojo’s Snafu Suicide
  • Miss America 1945 with photos of several contenders including Bess Myerson
  • Quisling Condemned
  • U.S. Army Solves Enemy Religious Problems
  • Americans Retake Wake Island

    • ARTICLE:

  • Pearl Harbor by John Chamberlain – Over parts of 8 pages

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Salvador Dali by Winthrop Sergeant – 4-1/2 pages

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS:

  • Secretaries of State – With 4 pages of color paintings reproduced including full-pages for John Quincy Adams and William Seward
  • The Incas

    • MOVIES:

  • Love Letters featuring Jennifer Jones

    • HOUSING:

  • Plastic Boudoir

    • RADIO:

  • Sorry, Wrong Number

    • EDUCATION:

  • New President of Sarah Lawrence College

    • PEOPLE:

  • Burmese Wedding in San Francisco
  • Family Reunion

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • New Fall Silhouette

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Yankee Stonecutters Were First American Sculptors
  • LIFE’s Reports: Peace Comes to Shanghai by Theodore H. White
  • LIFE Comes Home With Jimmy Stewart
  • Miscellany: OPA Sets Prices for Post-War Gadgets