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1942-05-18 Life Magazine Contents

1942/05/18 — Cover featuring “Cadet Bombardier” is credited to William Shrout

Contents of this issue are as follows:

THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • Japanese Sweep Through Burma
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • St. Vincent’s Hospital in New York Has Air-Raid Rehearsal
  • Sub Hits Water Sideways in Great Lakes Launching
  • D.A.R. Makes History at Chicago Meeting
  • Cameraman Catches Final Second of Suicide Dive – full-page photo of woman in mid-air
  • Roosevelt Harvest Crop of Navy Keels
  • How British in Burma Escaped Jap Trap by Jack Belden

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS:

  • World Oil – Its Geography Guides the War
  • Bombardier School

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Admiral Jerry Land by Lincoln Barnett

    • MOVIES:

  • My Gal Sal starring Rita Hayworth and Charles Boyer

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Short Nightgowns

    • SPORTS:

  • Newt Loken Is Best All-around Gymnast
  • Game of Go Enthralls U.S. Players

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Charles Boyer Teaches Starlet (Alexis Smith) How to Kiss
  • LIFE’s Reports: Australian Slang by Wilson Hicks
  • LIFE Goes to the Mardi Gras in Rio with Orson Welles
  • Pictures to the Editors
  • Full-page 2 color ad for Rita Hayworth in “My Gal Sal” features black & white Rita with bright red hair