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1939-08-28 Life Magazine Contents Page for August 28, 1939

1939/08/28 — Cover featuring Alice Marble is credited to Alfred Eistenstaedt

Contents of this issue are as follows:

Highlight of this issue is actually a full-page color ad for MGM’s The Wizard of Oz picturing Judy Garland as Dorothy with the Tin Man, Scarecrow and Cowardly Lion

THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • Germany Unmasks Its Heaviest Artillery to Cow Poles
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • A 1940 Census Taker Gets Practice Workout
  • Corset Steals Show as Paris Exhibits Fall Fashions
  • Police Hunt Saboteur in Wreck of Steamliner
  • People in the News
  • Lily Pons and Her Husband Draw Big Summer Music Crowds
  • THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Pictures from the U.S. Army Signal Corps
  • ART:

  • California Naval War: 1847 by Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Modern Artists Paint Still Lifes
  • MODERN LIVING:

  • Right and Wrong Clothes for Boys and Girls
  • MUSIC:

  • Sister Tharpe Swings Same Songs in Church and Night Club
  • MOVIES:

  • The Problem of Hedy Lamarr
  • SPORTS:

  • Alice Marble Performs for High-Speed Camera
  • SCIENCE

  • Auto Industry Adopts Sealed-Beam Headlights

    OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures — French Movie Stars Make Faces
  • LIFE Goes to Life Camps
  • Pictures to the Editors
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