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1946-06-17 Life Magazine Contents

1946/06/17 — Cover featuring Play Dresses is credited to Lisa Larsen

Contents of this issue are as follows:

THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • Chicago Hotel Fire Kills 60 People – La Salle Hotel
  • Editorial: Mr. Byrnes’s New Hand
  • Maritime Workers Listen to Union Official Talk Strike
  • Detroit Celebrates the Automobile’s 50 Anniversary
  • Umbrellas Shelter England’s Queen, Ensign’s Bride
  • French Build Europe’s Second Biggest Dam
  • Governor Warren of California Gets Two-Party Nomination
  • First Pictures Show Work on Atomic Pile

    • ARTICLES:

  • Existentialism by Bernard Frizell looks to be largely about Jean-Paul Sartre

  • The Boxing Racket by John Field and Earl Brown

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Auto’s First 50 Years – 7 pages, packed with photos including several from the 1890’s

    • RELIGION:

  • Kyoto’s Shrines

    • HOUSING:

  • Veterans Take Over Mansion

    • THEATER:

  • “Around the World”

    • ART:

  • N.C. Wyeth – 4 pages, 3 in full-color of paintings

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • The Pigtail Set
  • Play Dresses

    • MOVIES:

  • Double Davis – Bette Davis in A Stolen Life

    • SPORTS:

  • Nelson vs. Burton

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Cartoonist Blowzy Frauleins Offend Germans
  • LIFE’s Reports: GIs at Harvard b Charles J.V. Murphy
  • LIFE Goes to a Kansas Town’s Powwow
  • LIFE’s Miscellany: Brazilian Beach Game