1941-07-21 Life Magazine Contents

1941/07/21 — Cover featuring Singapore’s Commander in Chief, Sir Robert Brooke, is credited to Carl Mydans

Contents of this issue are as follows:

THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

New Pipeline Is Rushed to Help Meet East’s Growing Oil Shortage

LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World

Jo Davidson Sculpts Head of the President of Brazil

Blitzed British Baby Learns to Walk Again

Soldiers and Girls Have Fun at Army Recreation Camp

U.S. Troops Move Into War Zone as Navy Occupies Iceland

Russians Extol Their Heroes

…British Policy Is to Keep Their Man Nameless

Haile Selassie Returns to Addis Ababa – 2-1/2 full pages of mostly photos spread out over 4 pages total (with advertising on the remaining 1-1/2 pages).

ARTICLE:

America’s Great Mistake (“the empty dream of passive defense”) by Walter Lippmann

PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

Singapore – Britain’s Far Eastern Fortress – 13 full pages

CLOSE-UP:

Helena Rubinstein by Elaine Brown Keiffer – Includes full-page color photo of Rubinstein

NATURAL HISTORY:

Rocks

MOVIES:

“Manpower” starring Edward G. Robinson, Marlene Dietrich, George Raft

MODERN LIVING

Suntan

OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

Letters to the Editors

Speaking of Pictures: LaGuardia Watches Baseball Game

LIFE Goes on a Floating Party

Pictures to the Editors