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1949-04-25 Life Magazine Contents

1949/04/25 — Cover photograph featuring “Paris Fashions” is credited to Gordon Parks.

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

  • Millions See Moon in Rare Total Eclipse

    • Editorials

  • Right to Hear
  • Brannan’s Plan
  • Italian Fascists Reappear
  • Pacific Northwest Has Its Worst Earthquake
  • White Russian Odyssey Reaches Philippines
  • Man Has a Merry Week
  • Seventy Farmers Prove to Be Good Neighbors
  • Military Union Is Being Perfected at Fontainebleau

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • The Trust Territory – Photographs for LIFE by Eliot Elisofon – Its 2,130 Islands form a new US domain in the Pacific

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Morgan the Great by Frederick Lewis Allen about J.P. Morgan

    • SCIENCE:

  • Mechanical Miner

    • TELEVISION:

  • The Goldbergs March On
  • Milton’s Marathon

    • FASHION:

  • Paris Styles

    • ANIMALS:

  • Hazford Rupert LXXXI – The grand old man of Hereford Bulls sired a family woirth over $1 Million
  • White Beaver

    • TRANSPORTATION:

  • The Talgo

    • SPORTS:

  • Gorgeous Gussie about #4 ranked tennis player Gussie Moran

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • LIFE’s Reports: Pieter’s X-Ray Eyes by Robert Deindorfer
  • Speaking of Pictures: US “Court Photographer” Has Some Historic Photos
  • Letters to the Editors
  • LIFE Visits the Lettuce Box

    • Notable advertising includes: two-page color illustrated ad featuring Bing Crosby and Rhonda Fleming in “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court”, half-page Cream of Kentucky Whiskey ad illustrated by Norman Rockwell, and an ad for Chesterfield Cigarettes on back cover features Joan Crawford.