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1949-07-25 Life Magazine Contents

1949/07/25 — Cover photograph featuring “Girl in Plastic Beach Boat” is credited to George Silk.

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

  • 81st Congress Debates Basic Issue of Statism
  • Editorial: Lessons from Goethe
  • New Canal Furnishes Water for California Eden
  • Dimitrov Joins Communist “Immortals”
  • LIFE Congratulates Some Newlyweds
  • A Bright Boy Slips

  • The Rugged Reuthers Enter Round Four
  • A Leading Hypnotist Demonstrates His Art – Dr. Franz Polgar

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Albert Schweitzer by Winthrop Sargeant

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS:

  • Yosemite

  • Father of the Bride – Photographs for Life by MIchael Rougier

    • MOVIES:

  • Popcorn Bonanza
  • King Kong’s Successor – 1-1/2 pages of Mighty Joe Young

    • FASHION:

  • Young Designers

    • RELIGION:

  • Biggest Baptist Church

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Beach Boats

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: House Cats Make Strange Adoptions
  • Miscellany: Raw! Raw! School

    • Notable advertising includes: Half-page ad for Fatima features Basil Rathbone, Jennifer Jones in Madame Bovary, half-page ad for Flit features a small cartoon by Dr. Seuss, Coca-Cola ad on back cover