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1946-10-07 Life Magazine Contents

1946/10/07 — Cover photograph featuring Bing Crosby and Joan Caulfield is credited to Nina Leen

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

  • Oldest Human Bones Arrive in the U.S.
  • Editorial: Shall We Have a Depression?
  • Truman is Caricatured by Friend
  • Zale Wins Years Best Fight – Tony Zale beats Rocky Graziano in their classic first encounter, includes full-page photo of knockout and smaller action pics from during the fight
  • Ambasador John Leighton Stuart Raises U.S. Hopes in China
  • Students Are Crowding U.S. School Facilities
  • Bikini Goat Gets Trasfusion

    • ARTICLE:

  • Taft and Vandenberg by Joseph and Stewart Alsop

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Horse Opera – Western Movies Maintain Their Traditions, Popularity and Profits – with photos of Sunset Carson and others over 7 pages

    • THEATER:

  • The Critics Versus the Playwrights

    • SCIENCE:

  • Personality Tests

    • SPORTS:

  • Game Bird Shooting, Paintings by Ogden Pleissner

    • SHORT STORY:

  • Once Aboard the “Reluctant” by Thomas Heggen

    • MEDICINE:

  • 710-Pound Youth – 20 Year Old Robert Earl Hughes – 1 large photo that’s appx. 5/6 of the page in size, 4 smaller pics each about a quarter-page

    • NATURAL HISTORY:

  • Japanese Miniature Trees

    • MOVIES:

  • “Blue Skies” with Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire and Joan Caulfield

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Shoes to Match

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • LIFE’s Reports
  • Speaking of Pictures: Jefferson Machamer Tells Why Cartooning Is Easy
  • Letters to the Editors
  • LIFE Visits a Country School of Photography
  • LIFE’s Miscellany: Fun at the Piano