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1945-12-10 Life Magazine Contents

1945/12/10 — Cover featuring Party Dresses in Fashion is credited to Philippe Halsman.

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

  • Civilization Tries Top Nazis
  • Report from Nurnberg by John Dos Passos
  • Editorial: A Dream
  • Eisenhower and Zhukov Eat French Food
  • Metropolitan Opera Opens
  • Spanish Drought Brings New Suffering to Hard-Pressed People
  • Truman’s Double Has Busy Washington Week
  • General Marshall Gets Chinese Assignment
  • Guy Fawkes’ Day Is Celebrated for First Time in Six Years

    • ARTICLE:

  • The New Veteran by Charles G. Bolte

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Margaret O’Brien by Noel Busch

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • The Symphony Orchestra

    • SPORTS:

  • Bo McMillin Wins Big Ten Title

    • MOVIES:

  • “Cornered” with Dick Powell

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Party Dresses

    • THEATER:

  • “State of the Union”

    • MEDICINE:

  • Girls’ Medical School

    • EDUCATION:

  • Boy paleontologists

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Abner Dean’s Nudes Act Just Like Human Beings
  • LIFE Reports: GIs in Le Havre by Joe Weston
  • LIFE Goes to Dc MacKinnon Day
  • Miscellany: Sinbad’s Shore Leave

    • Notable advertising includes: Community Silverplate ad on inside front cover is illustrated by Jon Whitcomb, Veronica Lake for Calox*, Bing Crosby in color for RC Cola, Ginny Simms for Cannon Hosiery, “Christmas in America” illustrated by Conrad Dickel for Interwoven Socks, “Style Page from Tomorrow’s Book” is a two-page color ad for Buick, Imperial Whiskey ad with color illustration by Howard Baer, Greyhound ad with color illustration featuring a soldier home for Christmas, Bing Crosby for Persona Precision Blades*, Cream of Wheat ad features comic Li’l Abner by Al Capp*, “Pipe Types” by Constantin Alajalov for Briggs Pipe Mixture*, and television program director Loretta A. Brophy for Camel Cigarettes on the back cover. NOTE: An * denotes ad is smaller than a full-page.