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1946-08-12 Life Magazine Contents

1946/08/12 — Cover featuring Loretta Young is credited to Robert Landry

Contents of this issue are as follows:

THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • Blood Runs in Palestine Violence – 5 pages
  • Editorial: G.B.S. (George Bernard Shaw)
  • Boss Crump Rides Roller Coaster
  • Bolivian Revolt
  • “Baker Day” at Bikini
  • Midsummer: Jones Beach
  • Tourists

    • ARTICLE:

  • Confidence Games

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Frank Lloyd Wright – 8 pages, each of which is half-filled with the article, half with ads

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • “The Razor’s Edge” – Story of a single scene shows how Maugham’s novel is translated into a $3,000,000 movie – Photographs for LIFE by Ralph Crane – 9 pages

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Loretta Young’s Nightgowns – 10 color photos of Loretta Young modelling spread over 2 pages

    • NATURAL HISTORY:

  • How a Rattlesnake Strikes
  • Butterflies – Includes 4 full pages of color illustrations

    • NIGHTCLUBS:

  • Peter Lind Hayes

    • MOVIE:

  • Atomic Power

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Weegee Photographs A Corpse
  • LIFE’s Reports: The Isophone
  • LIFE Goes to a Party: St. Louis Debs
  • LIFE’s Miscellany: Shriners’ Convention
  • Full page black & white ad for Ernest Hemingway’s “The Killers” with images of Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner