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1941-06-02 Life Magazine Contents June 2 1941

1941/06/02 — Cover photograph featuring Sunday School is credited to Alfred Eisenstaedt

Contents of this issue are as follows:

THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • U.S. Steps Up Campaign to Combat Axis in Latin America
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • Hess Stands by Fuhrer in Reichstag Six Days Before Deserting Company
  • Nazis Wreck Great Monuments of English Culture – 4 pages of photos including full-page Big Ben
  • New Yorkers Jame Rally for U.S. Service Men’s Clubs
  • LIFE and Fortune Men Among Passengers Rescued as Germans Sink “Zamzam”

  • Mexican Maneuvers Reveal Equipment Deficiencies
  • Man-Made Lakes and Rivers Turn 20,000,000 U.S. Acres into Bloom
  • New York Art Directors Club Picks “Most Beautiful Legs”

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Sunday School Fights for God & Country with Modern Methods

    • ARTICLE:

  • Belgium Is Hungry by John Cudahy

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Exercises Aid Sleep

    • NATURAL HISTORY:

  • World’s Smallest Hippopotamus Arrives in U.S.

    • ART:

  • Sculptor Robert Laurent

    • SPORTS:

  • Satchel Paige – Negro Ballplayer, Is Great Pitcher – Covers 3 pages though excluding ads fills 2 total, with 9 photos of Paige including 3 in uniform with the New York Black Yankees, a shot at the barber shop, one shooting pool, one playing piano, etc.

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: How to Shoot in a Western
  • LIFE’s Reports: New Dealers vs. Dollar-a-Year Man
  • LIFE Visits the Statue of Liberty
  • Pictures to the Editors
  • Camel Cigarettes ad on back cover features golf legend Ben Hogan