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1945-05-07 Life Magazine Contents

1945/05/07 — Cover featuring “The German People” is credited to William Vandivert

Contents of this issue are as follows:

THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • War in Europe Draws To Its End
  • Editorial: The End of the War in Europe
  • U.S. and Russian Lieutenants Link Armies
  • The German Atrocities – Capture of the German Concentration Camps Piles Up Evidence of Barbarism that Reaches the Low Point of Human Degradation – 6 pages of pretty terrible b&w photos
  • San Francisco Security Conference Starts
  • The Russians by Fillmore Calhoun
  • Roosevelt Rites

    • ARTICLE:

  • The German People by Percy Knauth

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Lauren Bacall by Francis Sill Wickware – spreads over 8 pages though the last 6 are all half-pages with advertising on the other half–does open with a full page b&w photo of Bacall

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Spring in France

    • SPORTS:

  • New Baseball Czar Faces Tough Season – Happy Chandler – Includes 6 small photos of one-armed ballplayer Pete Gray fielding a ball and making the throw in

    • AMERICANA:

  • How America Lived

    • BALLET

  • “Undertow” Is Freudian Ballet

    • POULTRY:

  • Ducks for Food

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Space Shapes
  • Shopping Sleuth Hunts Novelties for Fashion Magazine

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: “Yank” Cartoons Reflect War Humor
  • LIFE’s Reports: Army Pulls Out of Abilene by Holland McCombs
  • LIFE Visits an Enchanted Isle
  • LIFE’s Miscellany: Missouri Meerschaums