1938/08/29 — Cover featuring “Goodby to Summer” is credited to Knopf
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1938/08/29 — Cover featuring “Goodby to Summer” is credited to Knopf
Contents of this issue are as follows:
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THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:
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1938/09/12 — Cover featuring Hungarian Police Guard is credited to Margaret Bourke-White
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Hungary — This Kingless Kingdom, Wooed by Germany, Clamors for Lost Lands
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1938/10/31 — Cover featuring Raymond Massey (Abe Lincoln on Broadway) is credited to George Karger
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CLOSE-UP:
Tom Dewey – Galahad from Owosso is White Hope of Republican Party
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1938/12/12 — Cover featuring Champion Labrador Retriever is credited to George Karger
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1939/05/01 — Cover featuring Joe DiMaggio is credited to Carl Mydans
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1939/08/14 — Cover featuring Busiest Baby (Sandra Lee Henville) is credited to Peter Stackpole
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NEWS OF THE WEEK:
PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:
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SCIENCE:
ART:
GEOGRAPHY:
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1939/09/04 — Cover featuring Rosalind Russell is credited to MGM
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THE WAR CRISIS:
THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:
CLOSE-UP:
SCIENCE:
MOVIE:
ART:
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1939/09/18 — Cover photograph featuring “Britain Goes to War” is credited to the AP
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MODERN LIVING:
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1939/11/06 — Cover photograph featuring Planes Over England is credited to Charles E. Brown
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1939/11/27 — Cover photograph featuring Arturo Toscanini and granddaughter Sonia Horowitz is credited to Herbert Gehr
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THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:
MUSIC:
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ART:
NATURAL HISTORY:
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MOVIES:
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1940/01/22 — Cover photograph featuring Dutch East Indians is credited to Horace Bristol
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1940/02/19 — Cover photograph featuring Romania’s King Carol and son Mihai is credited to John Walter Sanders
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MODERN LIVING:
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1940/02/26 — Cover featuring Carhop is credited to Francis Miller
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Notable advertising includes: Announcing the Chrysler Highlander, Dumb Dora cartoon for Shredded Ralston+, Kool Cigarettes ad with the Kool Penguin*, and a Camel Cigarettes ad is on the back cover. NOTE: An * denotes ad is smaller than a full-page
1940/03/04 — Cover photograph featuring Springtime Hats is credited to George Karger
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,li>Smeltania Fishermen Build City on Ice
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ANTHROPOLOGY:
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TRANSPORT:
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1936/11/30 — Cover photograph featuring West Point Cadet is by Alfred Eisenstaedt
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1936/12/14 — Cover photograph featuring The Archbishop of Canterbury is credited to Time, Inc.
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1936/12/21 — Cover photograph featuring Lord Beaverbrook’s Granddaughter is from Pictures, Inc.
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1936/12/28 — Cover photograph featuring Metropolitan Opera’s Ballet is credited to Alfred Eisenstaedt
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1937/01/04 — Cover photograph featuring President Roosevelt is credited to Harris & Ewing
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1937/01/11 — Cover photograph featuring Japanese Soldiers is credited to Black Star
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1937/01/18 — Cover photograph featuring “Henry and Edsel Ford at Dearborn” is credited to Russell Aikins
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1937/01/25 — Cover photograph featuring England’s Royal Lion in Stone is credited to TIME, Inc.
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1937/02/08 — Cover photograph featuring Winter on the Range is credited to Charles J. Beldon
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1937/02/15 — Cover photograph featuring General Senjuro Hayashi is credited to Leon Daniel
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1937/02/22 — Cover photograph featuring “Triton for St. Louis” is credited to Alfred Eisenstaedt.
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