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1949-07-11 Life Magazine Contents

1949/07/11 — Cover photograph featuring Bob Mathias is credited to Michael Rougier.

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

  • A Champ Makes Good for the Home Folks – 5 pages on Bob Mathias
  • Editorials: The South Awakens and Candy and Socialism
  • An Old Assassin Dies by Gunfire
  • Chennault Sounds a Last Call for China
  • West Fights Grasshopper Plague
  • Letters Support Hoover Commission
  • LIFE Offers Congratulations
  • Slipstream Strips Sliding Stunter
  • American Heroes Inspire Indonesian Stamps
  • Babbling Bunyan Entertains Railroad Fair Crowd
  • Sequel: Cover Girl Gets a Diploma and a Crown

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Bess Truman and Her Home Town by Lilian Rixey

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • City Against Auto

    • EXPLORATION:

  • Glacier Expedition

    • SCIENCE:

  • G.E. Thunderbolts

    • MOVIES:

  • Stars in the Soup features photos of Rosalind Russell and Robert Cummings

    • ENTERTAINMENT:

  • Clowns – Includes 3 pages of bright color photos

    • SPORTS:

  • Why Pitchers Get Nervous by Ernest Havemann is actually a story on Yogi Berra covering all or part of 4 pages total

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Pictures to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: What Are All These People So Worried About?
  • LIFE’s Visit: Tom Lea and His Brave Bulls

    • Notable advertising includes: Huge 2-page color ad for the classic Mighty Joe Young, United States Brewers Foundation ad with color illustration by Douglass Crockwell. NOTE: An * denotes ad is smaller than a full-page.