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1949-10-17 Life Magazine Contents

1949/10/17 — Cover photograph featuring Jeanne Crain in Pinky is credited to Arnold Newman.

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

  • Battle for Pensions Waxes Hot in California
  • Editorials: President Truman and Senator Taft
  • Haile Selassie’s Gradson Captivates London — one-page featuring large photo of 2-year-old Prince Wossen Seged Makonnen
  • An Old Battle Cry Rallies Admirals
  • Whoops, Oops and Whoosh
  • Exhibitionists Take Over Series Opener – includes a page of photos featuring the victorious New York Yankees
  • Case of the Silent Boxers Turns Up Some Scandals
  • Barbershop War Splits Hollywood
  • Sequel: Young Murderer Goes Back to Prison for Good

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Jacques Fath: Designer for Americans by Robert Coughlan

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS:

  • Golden Autumn – 6 pages of color, Vermont
  • Report in Communist Shanghai with Photos by Henri Cartier-Bresson and text by Robert Doyle

    • MEDICINE:

  • Breathing by Electricity

    • TELEVISION:

  • Wynn Takes on TV with full-page color photo of Ed Wynn

    • EDUCATION:

  • Princeton “Channel Swimmer”

    • SCIENCE:

  • Baby Instructs a Class

    • MOVIES:

  • Ladies, What Would You Do…?

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • An Evening By Air

    • SCULPTURE:

  • Religious Art

    • THEATER:

  • Broadway, The Fabulous Invalid, Gets Weaker

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Spectacular Tight-Rope Walkers
  • LIFE’s Reports: 1,000 Foot Plunge
  • LIFE Congratulates
  • LIFE Goes to a $50,000 Party
  • Miscellany: Mohammed Ibrahim’s Mustache and Petulant Pachyderm

    • Notable advertising includes: full page with Errol Flynn and Greer Garson in The Forsyte Woman, James Mason and Joan Bennett in The Reckless Moment,Yvonne De Carlo in color for Proctor Toasters, and a Coca-Cola ad on the back cover. NOTE: An * denotes ad is smaller than a full-page.