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1949-05-02 Life Magazine Contents

1949/05/02 — Cover photograph featuring “Eight-Letter Man at West Point” with Arnold Galiffa is credited to Arnold Newman.

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

  • Irish Become a Free Nation
  • Editorial: Health by Compulsion
  • Sewell Avery Keeps His Job
  • CIO Party-Liner Wins Election
  • Madrid Observes the Parade of Silence
  • Air Force Knocks Out Navy’s Super Carrier
  • Ingrid Bergman Holds Hands With New Director – Roberto Rossellini
  • Heresy Is Charged to Church Leaders
  • Woman is Swept Off Schooner
  • A Bonapartist Protects His Honor
  • Soviets Use Cpaitalistic Advertising Campaign

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • The Great Packager by John Kobler — Raymond Loewy

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Small-Town Television

    • SCIENCE:

  • Tuberculosis Vaccine

    • NATURE:

  • In Texas Almost Everybody Paints Bluebonnets

    • MOVIES:

  • Replacement for Rita? — Corinne Calvet
  • Bayou Boy — J.C. Boudreaux

    • ART:

  • G. Braque

    • FASHION:

  • Tops for Shorts

    • INDUSTRY:

  • “Shoe Wizard’s” House

    • HOUSING:

  • World’s First Sun-Heated Home

    • SPORTS:

  • Galiffa of West Point

    • MUSIC:

  • Princeton’s Bellmaster

    • THEATER:

  • “Detective Story”

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: These Show What 300 mph Wind Does to Human Faces
  • LIFE’s Reports: Contented Ceylon by Robert Lubar
  • Miscellany: Fancy Napkin-Folding

    • Notable advertising includes: Robert Ryan in The Set-Up, 2-page ad for Chesterfield features the “Top Men in America’s Sports” — Ben Hogan, Joe DiMaggio, Frankie Albert, Jack Kramer, and Lou Boudreau, half-page ad for ASR Lighter features Humphrey Bogart *, Brian Donlevy for Blatz Beer on the inside back cover, and a Coca-Cola ad on back cover. NOTE: An * denotes ad is smaller than a full-page.