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1949-04-11 Life Magazine Contents

1949/04/11 — Cover photograph featuring “Spring Along the Mississippi” is credited to Loomis Dean.

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

  • War in Burma
  • Editorial: The Atlantic Alliance
  • Russian Skater Hits Jackpot of Medals
  • Improper Bostonians Mob a Bargain Sale (at Filene’s)
  • Churchill Speaks in Boston
  • Wanderlust in California
  • Miss New Orleans Gets Public Paddling – Barbara Jean Cauthen bites husbands leg as he spanks her
  • Chinese Troops Train on Formosa
  • Shetland Festival
  • “Doctor Frank” Becomes a Senator
  • Casualty of Winter
  • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Spring on the Mississippi – Photographs for LIFE by Andreas Feininger
  • ARTICLE:

  • Divorce Court by Joe McCarthy
  • MEDICINE:

  • New Test Detects Cold Germs
  • MOVIES:

  • “Champion” with Kirk Douglas, includes a full-page photo of Douglas, plus pics with Ruth Roman, Marilyn Maxwell, and Lola Albright
  • EDUCATION:

  • One-Man Literacy Crusade – about Frank C. Laubach
  • CULTURE:

  • High-brow, Low-brow, Middle-brow – These are three basic categories of a new U.S. social structure, and the high-brows have the whip hand, with chart of their preferences
  • ART:

  • “The Rock” by Peter Blume, in color over 1-1/2 pages
  • MUSIC:

  • New York City Opera
  • Strange Sounding Names
  • HOUSING:

  • Glamourized Houses
  • TELEVISION:

  • Texas Station
  • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Ballplayers and Ballerina Have a Lot In Common
  • LIFE’s Reports: Visit to Evita Peron by John Dos Passos
  • People
  • LIFE Calls on Bernard Berenson
  • Notable advertising includes: Little Lulu for Kleenex, actor John Loder in color for Lord Calvert, Gail Russell for RC Cola, Mr. and Mrs. Edward G. Robinson in color for Pabst Blue Ribbon, and an ad for Camel Cigarettes on back cover features billiards greats Willie Mosconi and Willie Hoppe.

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