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1945-10-15 Life Magazine Contents

1945/10/15 — Cover featuring “Fall Jewelry in Fashion” is credited to Ewing Krainin

Contents of this issue are as follows:

THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • The U.S. Relaxes – Includes “Bubble Craze,” two pages of people blowing bubbles as the “First big postwar fad hits Atlanta”
  • Editorial: The First Peace Conference
  • Statue of Christ Lies Intact in Bombed Nagasaki
  • Strikes Stud U.S.
  • New York Banquet Honors Al Smith
  • Elephant Is Last Survivor in Berlin Zoo
  • General Marshall Tells Official Story of War
  • President Roosevelt Had Secret Retreat in Maryland’s Mountains

    • ARTICLE:

  • Expectant Mother’s Parachute Jump by Mary Johnson Tweedy

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Harold’s Club by Roger Butterfield features the Smith family of Reno and Harold’s Club, the biggest gambling joint in the country

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Displaced Germans Pour Unwelcome into Berlin

    • THEATER:

  • “Deep Are the Roots” starring Gordon Heath, Barbara Bel Geddes, Charles Waldron, Helen Martin

    • SPORTS:

  • Football Giants Develop New “A” Formation

    • SCIENCE:

  • Railroad Worm
  • Wisconsin’s Intellectual Monkeys

    • AVIATION:

  • Army Uses Robot Airplanes for Gunnery Targets

    • ART:

  • Doris Lee Paints Impressions of Hollywood

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Fall Jewelry

    • MOVIES:

  • The Lost Weekend starring Ray Milland

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Zero Mostel Shows What Waiters Must Forget
  • LIFE’s Reports: Farmer Truman by Frank McNaughton and Walter Hehmeyer
  • LIFE Dances La Bamba in Mexico City
  • Miscellany: Sunken-Treasure Hunt
  • Full-page color ad for RC Cola features Paulette Goddard
  • Coke ad on back cover: “Now you’re talking…Have a Coca-Cola … or tuning in refreshment on the Admiralty Isles”