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1947-07-14 Life Magazine Contents

1947/07/14 — Cover featuring Elizabeth Taylor is credited to Robert Landry

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

  • Catholics Hold Huge Congress in Canada
  • Editorial: The Break in Europe
  • Texans Watch Tornado Approach Their Town
  • Japanese War Criminals
  • Escaped Steer Terrifies Neighborhood
  • Herriot Squeezes Into French Academy Uniform

    • ARTICLES:

  • An Afternoon at Ascot by Noel F. Busch
  • How Russia Rules Poland by Arthur Bliss Lane

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • June Wedding – Photographs for LIFE by Nina Leen

    • TRANSPORTATION:

  • The Executive Bus

    • SCIENCE:

  • Sunburn

    • FOOD:

  • Summer Cooking

    • DANCE:

  • Mother Zorina Leaps

    • ART:

  • Painter’s Summer

    • EDUCATION:

  • How Not to Ride a Bicycle in Traffic

    • MOVIES:

  • “Ivy” featuring Joan Fontaine
  • Elizabeth Taylor – At 15, She Has Grown into a Top Ingenue – Just a single page

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Greeks Still Look Like Their Forbears
  • People – Includes large photo of Evita Peron, smaller photo of muscle-man Steve Reeves
  • LIFE’s Party: Americans Live High in Rome
  • Miscellany: The Great Oregon Beauty Controversy
  • 2-page color ad for Calvert Collins with large illustration by Tom Lovell
  • Colorful full-page Budweiser ad “Fine Beer Has Beena Symbol of Hospitality for 8,000 Years” with five horizontal scenes through the ages