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1949-06-20 Life Magazine Contents

1949/06/20 — Cover photograph featuring “High School Spirit” depicting Marcia Mattson is credited to Leonard McCombe.

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

  • A Sultan’s Daughter Weds a Caliph — Photographs for LIFE by Dmitri Kessel
  • Hawaiian Strike Nears Showdown
  • Photo Flares Light Up New York
  • Princess Elizabeth Performs at Races
  • Evita Observes Argentina’s Anniversary
  • LIFE Offers Congratulations
  • Editorial: Europe in June
  • Sequel: The Hawkings Come Through Safely
  • Stalin Enjoys His Jets

    • ARTICLE:

  • Why They Confess by Konrad Heiden — The remarkable case of Hans Fritzsche

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Hillsdale High — Photographs for LIFE by Leonard McCombe

    • SPORTS:

  • The Washington Huskies – collegiate shell racing

    • BOOKS:

  • Book-Buyer No. 1 – Photo of Eustace Seligman, the Book-of-the-Month clubs first member back in 1926, posed with the 449 books he’s received since then

    • FASHION:

  • Riviera Fashions

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Tiny Cameras

    • ANIMALS:

  • Insomniac’s Delight – a photo of a huge flock of sheep being herded over the Grand Coulee Dam

    • MOVIES:

  • The “Art Movie” Begins to Pay Off

    • ART:

  • Gene Pene Du Bois — includes 3 pages of color reproductions
  • 70 Sculptors 70 — A huge photo more than a page and a half tall featuring 70 sculptors on the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art

    • TRAVEL:

  • The Skyline Drive
  • The Rocky Road to Rio

    • SCIENCE:

  • Sleeping Sickness Cure

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: New Book Turns Up Odd Old Inventions
  • Miscellany: “Raindrop” Reflections

    • Notable advertising includes: Packard ad illustrated by Melbourne Brindle, full-page for Roughshod featuring John Ireland, Robert Sterling and Gloria Grahame, Oil Industry Information Committee ad illustrated by Lynd Ward, Joan Fontaine in color for Pabst Blue Ribbon, and an ad for Lucky Strikes on the back cover. NOTE: An * denotes ad is smaller than a full-page.