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1954-10-25 Life Magazine Contents

1954/10/25 — Cover photograph featuring The Big Ten Look for Coeds is credited to Nina Leen

Contents of this issue are as follows:
THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • Hanoi’s Red Masters Take Over
  • Hazed by Hazel
  • A Capricious Hurricane Takes Its Toll – Hurricane Hazel
  • Kansas City’s High Hereford
  • A Matter of Words Creates a Political Storm
  • The Adams Papers Are Unsealed
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • Greek Runner on Gridiron Boosts Olympic Fund
  • A Runner-Up Runs First
  • Nurses Chute to Rescue
  • Money Changing in a House of Glass
  • Busy Little Begum Gets to Work

    • EDITORIAL:

  • The “Whys” of Hate

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS:

  • The Big Ten Look – Photographed for LIFE by Nina Leen
  • A Future for the Retarded – Photographed for LIFE by Cornell Capa

    • ARTICLE:

  • Gambler’s Paradise Lost by Ernest Havemann

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Krishna Menon – Mouthpiece Extraordinary and Troublemaker Plenipotentiary by Alexander Campbell — Takes up all or part of 8 pages

    • SPORTS:

  • One Man Beats Six at Volleyball

    • TELEVISION:

  • Bright Galaxy of Playwrights

    • FASHION:

  • False Length for Nails

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • How to Make a Fast Antique

    • SCIENCE:

  • Amoeba Gets Weighed In

    • THEATER:

  • Down Old Nostalgia Lane — “The Boy Friend”

    • ART:

  • A Left Bank in New York

    • RELIGION:

  • Fun for Friars of Caprarola

    • MOVIES:

  • A Touchy Theme for Frank Sinatra

    • ANIMALS:

  • Direct to Consumer

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Speaking of Pictures: School Yells’ Saucy Rhymes Inspire a Cheerleader’s Exuberant Rhythms
  • Letters to the Editors
  • LIFE’s Visit: Moravian Town Reprieved
  • Miscellany: Foot-Loose and Freewheeling

  • Lucky Strike ad on back cover features large head shot of Ted Williams with three smaller photos of him fishing and smoking

    • 1954-08-30 Life Magazine Contents August 30 1954

    1954/08/30 — Cover photograph featuring Anna Maria Alberghetti is credited to Loomis Dean

    Contents of this issue are as follows:
    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • World Council Works for Church Unity
  • Store Hires Hostesses During Pilot Strike
  • Quiet Boys … And Horror in Brooklyn
  • A Man Lives to See Another Evening Sun Go Down
  • Texas Chooses Up for a Runoff
  • De Gasperi Dies in Mountains He Loved
  • Goan Invasion Yeilds to Faith, Firmness
  • Life on the Newsfronts of the World

    • EDITORIALS:

  • An Amusing Summer Fantasy
  • Fantastic Summer Realities

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS:

  • 100 Years of Yachting – 8 pages

    • ARTICLE:

  • The Red Specter That haunts Italy by Emmet John Hughes

    • ANIMALS:

  • Horned Steed

    • SCIENCE:

  • A New Amphibious Vehicle, the Rhino

    • SPORTS:

  • 103 Ties with 102 on Water Skies

    • MOVIES:

  • Many Sided Jack Webb

    • MUSIC:

  • Anna Maria and Family, Happy in the Rain (cover story)

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Mass Do-It-Yourself Project

    • DANCE:

  • Contortion Recreates Kafka ‘s Cockroach

    • BUSINESS:

  • Northland, Detroit’s Modern Bazaar

    • FASHION:

  • Fall’s Bumper Crop of Jumpers

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Speaking of Pictures: Australian Cartoonist Thinks Up New Uses for Statues
  • Letters to the Editors
  • LIFE’s Visit: Boys Rule the Roost on Camp’s Last Day
  • Miscellany: Whash Uff, Doc?

    • 1953-09-14 Life Magazine Contents

    1953/09/14 — Cover featuring Casey Stengel is credited to Mark Kauffman.

    Contents of this issue are as follows:
    COVER:

  • Casey Stengel’s Winning Smile

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • The Lonely Men of Short Creek Await Trial (polygamy)
  • Heat Launches Raft of Sales for a Melting ‘Missouri’
  • General Dean’s Heroism is Revealed
  • Naguib Makes a Pilgrimmage
  • West Germans Break Up Communist Election Putsch
  • US Bombers Extend Their Range to The World
  • A Tornado of Rebuilding Near Flint
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • SS ‘Miramar’ and He Embattled Skipper

    • EDITORIAL:

  • ‘High Level Doldrums’ in Business

    • PICTORIAL ESSAYS:

  • Images of a Magic City (New York), Part 1, Photographed for LIFE by Ernest Haas
  • A Fresh Look at Lodge about Henry Cabot Lodge

    • ARTICLES:

  • ‘A Regular Roosting Place’ by Robert Wallace
  • The Russian Soldier: A Close-up by Ronald Schiller and Garrett Underhill

    • AVIATION:

  • A Wedge of Wedges in British Sky

    • BUSINESS:

  • Bright Boy Grocer

    • ANIMALS:

  • Sam, Whose Pants and Ears Are Too Long (a basset hound)

    • FASHION:

  • Soles to Be Seen

    • MOVIES:

  • Sir Larry Sings on Horseback — Laurence Olivier in The Beggar’s Opera

    • ART:

  • Durante by the Numbers — A Jimmy Durante paint-by-numbers set — text talks about paint-by-numbers as though it were new

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Plywood Toys Are Backyard Boon

    • MUSIC:

  • Joe Friday’s Four Notes Are Expanded

    • SPORTS:

  • Charlie and Ol’ Case in a Series Preview — World Series Preview concentrates on New York Yankees manager Casey Stengel and Brooklyn Dodgers manager Chuck Dressen

    • SCIENCE:

  • Eye Mote Reveals New Facts About Vision

    • NATURE:

  • Ant Lion Waits for Ant to Drop In

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Actress Demonstrates First Starring Role is photos of Rosanna Podesta
  • Sequel: A Long Voyage to No Home
  • LIFE Goes to a Belated Dutch Wedding Party
  • Miscellany: Mushroom Cloud Over Paris
  • Ben Hogan for Chesterfield Cigarettes on the Back Cover

    • 1953-08-31 Life Magazine Contents

    1953/08/31 — Cover featuring Donna Reed is credited to Sharland.

    Contents of this issue are as follows:
    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • A Dramatic Royal Comeback in Iran — the Shah
  • Reds Photograph a GIs Reaction to the Truce in Korea
  • Zoo’s Babies Get Overdose of Love
  • Great Britain Provides New Face for UN – Selwyn George
  • American Legion Provides New Face for Europe – Lewis Gough
  • Ruinous Epilog to a Homeric Drama
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • First Pictures of Atomic Sub

    • EDITORIALS:

  • Twilight of the Bosses
  • The Bossless Democrats

    • PICTORIAL ESSAY:

  • The Helmericks, Back Home in the Arctic

    • ARTICLE:

  • Space, It’s Enough to Make the Blood Boil – Many Fearful Problems Remain to Be Solved Before Man Can break Free of the Earth — by Jonathan Norton Leonard

    • RELIGION:

  • Assisi’s Second Saint — St. Clare

    • TELEVISION:

  • New Look on the Battlefield

    • MUSIC:

  • Once There Was a Boy – Brewster “Brucie” Weil

    • ART:

  • The Bartering Bridegroom – James Poetzsch

    • FASHION:

  • Dior’s First 13 Short Skirts

    • MOVIES:

  • From Here to Eternity with photos of scenes with Montgomery Clift, Frank Sinatra, Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed

    • SPORTS:

  • Archery Expert Aims at an Egg – Ann Marston

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Two Circus Chimps Play Tennis in Entertainingly Human Poses
  • LIFE Goes Tubing on the Sammamish Slough
  • Miscellany: A Real Tear from an Old Ham
  • Lucky Strikes Cigarettes ad on the Back Cover

    • 1952-08-18 Life Magazine Contents

    1952/08/18 — Cover featuring Marlene Dietrich and daughter, Maria, is credited to Milton Greene.

    Contents of this issue are as follows:
    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • The Uranium Rush Is On in Athabaska — Photographed for LIFE by Carl Iwasaki
  • Picture of a Successful Presidential Candidate
  • Democrats Beat a Truman Life
  • Valley Fights “Deadly Sleep”
  • Norway Honors Haakon, But Egypt Doesn’t Miss Farouk
  • Roadside Mourners Baffle French Police
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • A Retirement Turns Into a Giveaway
  • Candidates Welcome the Prodigals

    • EDITORIALS:

  • Some Pastime!
  • Some Science!

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Spain — Photographed for LIFE by Dmitri Kessel

    • ARTICLE:

  • Dietrich and Her Magic Myth by Winthrop Sargeant

    • ENTERTAINMENT:

  • Magic Angles
  • Festivals Are Busting’ Out All Over

    • FASHION:

  • Hair-Hiding Hats

    • SCIENCE:

  • Man vs. Mesquite

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Speaking of Pictures: A Remarkable Terrier Does Canine Translation of the Alphabet
  • Letters to the Editors
  • Sequel: Aerialists’ Errors
  • LIFE Reports: Basketball-Tomator Feud a Hot Potato
  • LIFE’s VisitL A Boy Makes a New Home for a Pony
  • Miscellany: Serious Funny Business
  • Coca-Cola ad on the Back Cover

    • 1952-07-28 Life Magazine Contents

    1952/07/28 — Cover featuring British Starlets in Hollywood — Joan Elan – Dorothy Bromiley – Audrey Dalton – is credited to John Engstead

    Contents of this issue are as follows:
    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • Muscles Pop Through Iron Curtain
  • Web Foot Hazard Delays Tournament
  • Democratic Eyes Fix on Truman’s Alternate
  • Flash Fire at Sea
  • The Duponts Have a Family Birthday
  • Steel Strangle
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • How Dr. Linse ‘…Got Lost’
  • Wheat Spills Over

    • EDITORIAL:

  • The Voter Who Cares

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS:

  • Folies-Bergere – Photographed for LIFE by N.R. Farbman and Thomas D. McAvoy with photos of Yvonne Menard – Veronica Bell – Eileen O’Dare – more
  • Sand, Space and Speed – Photographed for LIFE by Loomis Dean

    • ARTICLE:

  • The Robinson Crusoe of Schinz-Do by Clay Blair Jr.

    • SCIENCE:

  • A Better Mouse

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • A Swimming Pool for $450

    • FASHION:

  • Which Head of Hair Isn’t the Phony

    • MOVIES:

  • “We’re Not Married”

    • NATURE:

  • Nymph Emerges Into Dragonfly

    • YOUTH:

  • Tennessee Walking Stilts

    • MUSIC:

  • LIFE Cameraman as a Composer

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Three Starlets from England Demonstrate Some Anglo-American Misconceptions (cover story)
  • LIFE Visits The Beach Park Lady Bowlers
  • Miscellany: King-Size Shadow Picture
  • Budweiser ad headlined “Keep Cool” features Elephant and Donkey sitting on a block of ice with a bottle of Budweiser across their backs — Election day themed ad

    • 1952-01-28 Life Magazine Contents

    1952/01/28 — Cover photograph featuring Phyllis Newell is credited to John Raymond

    Contents of this issue are as follows:
    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • An Ancient Pass Traps a Modern Donner Party
  • Bomb Makes a Shambles of a Sunny Saigon Square
  • Family and France Pay Highest Honors to Be Lattre
  • A Gambler’s Luck Holds Out – Trial of Frank Costello with illustrations
  • America Honors A Doughty Skipper and A Doughty Orator
  • A Political Haymaker Goes Wide
  • Dutch Force Way into Church
  • Sweetness Rules Parade in Pasadena
  • Newly Opened Superroad Unravels Chronic Traffic Jam – New Jersey Turnpike

    • EDITORIAL:

  • The Schuman Plan

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • The Everglades — Photographed for Life by Alfred Eisenstaedt

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • The Master Imposter – An Incredible Tale by Joe McCarthy about Ferdinand Waldo Demara

    • SCIENCE:

  • Measuring With Mercury

    • ENTERTAINMENT:

  • Too Many Talents

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Speaking of Pictures – Row of Barrels Makes Some Good Skaters Look Awkward
  • Letters to the Editors
  • People
  • Life’s Camera Solos With a Ten-Year Old
  • Miscellany – “Miracle of Stones”
  • Chesterfield Cigarettes ad on back cover features Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis

    • 1950-12-25 Life Magazine Contents

    1950/12/25 — Cover is credited to John Koch.

    Contents of this issue are as follows:
    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • There Was a Christmas in Korea
  • Editorial: The Blessing of God
  • The Long Count in Michigan
  • America’s Leading Debutantes Are Welcomed Into Society
  • Protestants Unite in Several Fields

    • CHRSITMAS SECTION FOR CHILDREN:

  • Breughel’s Games
  • Carnival Toys
  • Model Locomotives
  • Your Own Christmas Tree
  • Performing Birds
  • Climb the Matterhorn
  • The Bear Party
  • Things to Make

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Proud Byzantium’s Christian Treasure — Photographed for LIFE by Dmitri Kessel

    • ARTICLE:

  • With My Own Eyes by Ogden Nash

    • ART:

  • Jigsaw Helmet

    • MOVIES:

  • A Holliday Treat — Judy Holliday in “Born Yesterday”

    • THEATER:

  • “Guys and Dolls

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • LIFE Visits Wonderland
  • Chesterfield Cigarettes ad featuring Arthur Godfrey, Bing Crosby, Perry Como, and Bob Hope on the Back Cover

    • 1950-10-09 Life Magazine Contents

    1950/10/09 — Cover photograph featuring Jean Simmons is credited to Philippe Halsman

    Contents of this issue are as follows:
    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • Seoul and Victory – Here Is Record of Way South Korea Was Retaken

    • Editorials:

  • Salute to Our Warriors
  • But What Comes Next?

  • The End Comes for a Champion – One page with large photo of Joe Louis taking a punch as he loses championship to Ezzard Charles
  • Tom Murphy Takes Over
  • Darkness at Noon Envelops Eastern Half of U.S.
  • Arrests End the “Henry Ford” Swindle
  • St. Paul Building Is Oglers’s Delight

    • PICTORIAL ESSAY:

  • Geography of the Universe

    • ARTICLE:

  • Mark Clark Speaks Out

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Blaik and Son by Marshall Smith about Coach Earl Blaik and son Bob

    • ART:

  • How GI Painters Saw Korea

    • MOVIES:

  • “Trio” with Jean Simmons

    • RELIGION:

  • Everyone Helped Build Church

    • THEATER:

  • A Critic Awaits His Critics about Wolcott Gibbs

    • TRANSPORTATION:

  • New Station Replaces Toledo Eyesore

    • BOOKS:

  • “Fractured French”

    • EDUCATION:

  • Bavarian Kids Dream of Glory

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: “Plushy, Poodly, Shaggy,” Says Mrs. Snow
  • LIFE’s Reports: Van Gogh and the T-Men by Emily Genauer
  • Miscellany: Hanging Hero – Quadruped’s Balk
  • LIFE Visits a Fisherman’s Paradise

    • 1950-08-28 Life Magazine Contents

    1950/08/28 — Cover photograph featuring General Douglas MacArthur is credited to Stephens

    Contents of this issue are as follows:
    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • A Vision Brings 80,000 to Necedah

    • Editorials:

  • Lessons from Combat
  • U.S. Civil Defense Lags
  • Loving Lion Greets Nightclub Patron
  • Atomic Handbook Becomes a Best Seller
  • Skyscraper Reaches the Top
  • “Wild Blue Yonder Boys” Salue GIs in Korea
  • The Brave Men of No Name Ridge by James Bell
  • Plane Makers Turn It On
  • An Iowa Town Dies a Slow Death

    • ARTICLES:

  • War and Politics by Ernest Havemann
  • The Gamble in Indo-China by Andre Laguerre

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Japan – A Bulwark in the Far East

    • THEATER:

  • Tent Opera

    • SCIENCE:

  • Stresses Made Visible

    • SPORTS:

  • Borscht Basketball

    • FASHION:

  • Dress or Coat

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Rescue Balloon

    • TELEVISION:

  • Mr. No Fixit

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Discovery of Old Film Add to Babe Ruth Legend – 2 full pages then another half page of stills from “Headin’ Home”
  • LIFE Revisits the Ski Bums
  • Miscellany: Legends in Sculpture
  • Beautiful brightly colored 2-page ad for “The Black Rose” starring Tyrone Power, Orson Welles and Cecile Aubry
  • Full-page ad fior The Watchmakers of Switzerland is illustrated in color by Norman Rockwell (illustration is larger than half-page)

    • 1949-11-21 Life Magazine Contents

    1949/11/21 — Cover photograph featuring Ricardo Montalban is credited to Alfred Eisenstaedt.

    Contents of this issue are as follows:
    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • Filipinos Elect Friend of U.S. (Quirino)
  • Death Overtakes Racing Driver Rex Mays
  • Political Unknown Upsets the Reds – Earl Brown
  • Editorial: Little News
  • A Butcher Shares the General Motors Melon
  • Russians Explain Atom Blast
  • Nehru’s Rival Goes on Tour

    • ARTICLE:

  • British Welfare State Debated

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Theater Girl — Photographs for LIFE by W. Eugene Smith — Jean Pearson

    • MOVIES:

  • The Remarkable Mr. Toad – 3 pages of color featuring the Disney character
  • “Battleground” with Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Ricardo Montalban, George Murphy and others

    • EDUCATION:

  • Newest Classroom

    • SPORTS:

  • Phony Deer Fools Hunters

    • ART:

  • Maya Murals

    • RELIGION:

  • A New Evangelist Arises — Billy Graham

    • ARCHITECTURE:

  • “The Third Rome”

    • NIGHTCLUBS:

  • Flesh and Fur

    • SCIENCE:

  • Deformed Fish Reveal Radiation Effects

    • RADIO:

  • Groucho’s Garland of Gags

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: The Funniest Cartoonists Frequently Work from the Same Old Ideas
  • LIFE’s Reports: The Stars Rule Siam by Roy Rowan
  • LIFE Visits Some Famous Generals
  • Miscellany: Fish Retriever

    • Notable advertising includes: Half-page for Schenley’s Cream of Kentucky Whiskey illustrated by Norman Rockwell*, color photo of James Michener for Lord Calvert Whiskey, United States Brewers Foundation with color illustration by Douglass Crockwell. NOTE: An * denotes ad is smaller than a full-page.

    1949-10-17 Life Magazine Contents

    1949/10/17 — Cover photograph featuring Jeanne Crain in Pinky is credited to Arnold Newman.

    Contents of this issue are as follows:
    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • Battle for Pensions Waxes Hot in California
  • Editorials: President Truman and Senator Taft
  • Haile Selassie’s Gradson Captivates London — one-page featuring large photo of 2-year-old Prince Wossen Seged Makonnen
  • An Old Battle Cry Rallies Admirals
  • Whoops, Oops and Whoosh
  • Exhibitionists Take Over Series Opener – includes a page of photos featuring the victorious New York Yankees
  • Case of the Silent Boxers Turns Up Some Scandals
  • Barbershop War Splits Hollywood
  • Sequel: Young Murderer Goes Back to Prison for Good

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Jacques Fath: Designer for Americans by Robert Coughlan

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS:

  • Golden Autumn – 6 pages of color, Vermont
  • Report in Communist Shanghai with Photos by Henri Cartier-Bresson and text by Robert Doyle

    • MEDICINE:

  • Breathing by Electricity

    • TELEVISION:

  • Wynn Takes on TV with full-page color photo of Ed Wynn

    • EDUCATION:

  • Princeton “Channel Swimmer”

    • SCIENCE:

  • Baby Instructs a Class

    • MOVIES:

  • Ladies, What Would You Do…?

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • An Evening By Air

    • SCULPTURE:

  • Religious Art

    • THEATER:

  • Broadway, The Fabulous Invalid, Gets Weaker

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Spectacular Tight-Rope Walkers
  • LIFE’s Reports: 1,000 Foot Plunge
  • LIFE Congratulates
  • LIFE Goes to a $50,000 Party
  • Miscellany: Mohammed Ibrahim’s Mustache and Petulant Pachyderm

    • Notable advertising includes: full page with Errol Flynn and Greer Garson in The Forsyte Woman, James Mason and Joan Bennett in The Reckless Moment,Yvonne De Carlo in color for Proctor Toasters, and a Coca-Cola ad on the back cover. NOTE: An * denotes ad is smaller than a full-page.

    1949-08-15 Life Magazine Contents

    1949/08/15 — Cover photograph featuring “How to Dress for Hollywood” depicting actress Brynn Noring is credited to Philippe Halsman.

    Contents of this issue are as follows:
    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • Sweden Holds a Gymnastic World Series — Photographs for LIFE by William J. Sumits
  • Editorials: This May Cost You Money and Speaking of the “Daily News”
  • Bear Turns On Handler
  • Age Wins a Round in Texas
  • Criminal Shoots It Out With Police
  • Ump Pretends He’s Blind
  • The Girls Get Restless
  • Justice Douglas Explores Iran
  • Colonel McCormick Invades Capital
  • Louisiana Town Hits the Jackpot

    • MEDICINE:

  • Infantile Paralysis

    • ARTICLE:

  • Poliomyelitis: A Case History by Bentz Plagemann

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Thurn and Taxis — Photographs for LIFE by Walter Sanders

    • FASHION:

  • Robe for Disrobing

    • SPORTS:

  • World’s Wettest, Sportiest Boat

    • MOVIES:

  • Quintet of Beauties — A Portfolio by Philippe Halsman — Color photos of Barbara Bates, Janet Leigh, Alexis Smith, Ann Blyth, and Linda Darnell
  • Another Beauty for Hollywood – Brynn Noring

    • ANIMALS:

  • Chameleons

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Dancer Acts Out Bedtime Story for Delighted Son
  • LIFE Visits “Mama” Koshetz

    • Notable advertising includes: Kleenex ad features Little Lulu by Marge, full-page ad for Orson Welles in Black Magic, Maxwell House Coffee ad illustrated by Stevan Dohanos, color photo of Douglas Fairbanks Jr. fishing on his boat in an ad for Pabst Blue Ribbon which he’s also drinking, and an ad for Chesterfield Cigarettes on the back cover featuring Yvonne DeCarlo. NOTE: An * denotes ad is smaller than a full-page.

    1949-07-25 Life Magazine Contents

    1949/07/25 — Cover photograph featuring “Girl in Plastic Beach Boat” is credited to George Silk.

    Contents of this issue are as follows:
    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • 81st Congress Debates Basic Issue of Statism
  • Editorial: Lessons from Goethe
  • New Canal Furnishes Water for California Eden
  • Dimitrov Joins Communist “Immortals”
  • LIFE Congratulates Some Newlyweds
  • A Bright Boy Slips

  • The Rugged Reuthers Enter Round Four
  • A Leading Hypnotist Demonstrates His Art – Dr. Franz Polgar

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Albert Schweitzer by Winthrop Sargeant

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS:

  • Yosemite

  • Father of the Bride – Photographs for Life by MIchael Rougier

    • MOVIES:

  • Popcorn Bonanza
  • King Kong’s Successor – 1-1/2 pages of Mighty Joe Young

    • FASHION:

  • Young Designers

    • RELIGION:

  • Biggest Baptist Church

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Beach Boats

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: House Cats Make Strange Adoptions
  • Miscellany: Raw! Raw! School

    • Notable advertising includes: Half-page ad for Fatima features Basil Rathbone, Jennifer Jones in Madame Bovary, half-page ad for Flit features a small cartoon by Dr. Seuss, Coca-Cola ad on back cover

    1949-07-18 Life Magazine Contents

    1949/07/18 — Cover photograph featuring “Hollywood Child – Sharon Harmon” is credited to Lisa Larsen.

    Contents of this issue are as follows:
    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • Japan’s “Red” Army Comes Home
  • Editorial: Dollars Are Power
  • Les Biffle Is Hero of a New Arkansas

  • Los Angeles Has Vice Scandal
  • Hectic Holliday Mixes Trouble With Relief
  • Tale of Violence Has Happy Ending
  • Jury Votes 8 to 4 Against Hiss
  • Beran Stands for Christ and Freedom

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • The Legend of Will Rogers by Roger Butterfield – takes up part of 11 pages

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • The New Israel — Photographs for LIFE by John Phillips

    • NATURAL HISTORY:

  • Wingless Chicken

    • SCIENCE:

  • Heterochromatic Girl

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Crosley “Hotshot”

    • THEATER:

  • Broadway Album

    • SCIENCE:

  • Oil is Minted in Colorado

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Parisians Tell the World to Go Climb a Tree
  • LIFE’S Visit: Hollywood’s Children

    • Notable advertising includes: Paulette Goddard in Anna Lucasta, Anne Baxter for Chesterfield, an ad for Camel Cigarettes on the back cover

    1949-07-11 Life Magazine Contents

    1949/07/11 — Cover photograph featuring Bob Mathias is credited to Michael Rougier.

    Contents of this issue are as follows:
    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • A Champ Makes Good for the Home Folks – 5 pages on Bob Mathias
  • Editorials: The South Awakens and Candy and Socialism
  • An Old Assassin Dies by Gunfire
  • Chennault Sounds a Last Call for China
  • West Fights Grasshopper Plague
  • Letters Support Hoover Commission
  • LIFE Offers Congratulations
  • Slipstream Strips Sliding Stunter
  • American Heroes Inspire Indonesian Stamps
  • Babbling Bunyan Entertains Railroad Fair Crowd
  • Sequel: Cover Girl Gets a Diploma and a Crown

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Bess Truman and Her Home Town by Lilian Rixey

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • City Against Auto

    • EXPLORATION:

  • Glacier Expedition

    • SCIENCE:

  • G.E. Thunderbolts

    • MOVIES:

  • Stars in the Soup features photos of Rosalind Russell and Robert Cummings

    • ENTERTAINMENT:

  • Clowns – Includes 3 pages of bright color photos

    • SPORTS:

  • Why Pitchers Get Nervous by Ernest Havemann is actually a story on Yogi Berra covering all or part of 4 pages total

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Pictures to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: What Are All These People So Worried About?
  • LIFE’s Visit: Tom Lea and His Brave Bulls

    • Notable advertising includes: Huge 2-page color ad for the classic Mighty Joe Young, United States Brewers Foundation ad with color illustration by Douglass Crockwell. NOTE: An * denotes ad is smaller than a full-page.

    1949-06-27 Life Magazine Contents

    1949/06/27 — Cover photograph featuring “Inland Sailing” with Arlin Gruenwald is credited to George Silk.

    Contents of this issue are as follows:
    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • New Harvest Adds to Big Wheat Surplus
  • Editorial: The Year of the Yammer
  • George VI Gets A Mouthful of Chin Strap
  • Truman’s Patronage Boss Goes to Work – Big Bill Boyle
  • Sears. Roebuck Rolls Into Rio
  • LIFE Offers Congratulations
  • “Silly Honey” Shoots a Ballplayer — Ruth Ann “Burns” Steinhagen shoots baseball player Eddie Waitkus
  • Dauntless Dale Wages Total War
  • Jump Takes Horse
  • Georgia Clark Becomes U.S. Treasurer
  • Hoover Received His 74th Honorary Degree

    • ARTICLE:

  • A Round Table on the Movies by Eric Hodgins

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS:

  • Inland Sailing — Photographs for LIFE by Charles Steinheimer
  • Atom City

    • RELIGION:

  • The Arm of St. Francis Xavier

    • FASHION:

  • Nylon, 1949

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Speaking of Pictures: “The Kiss” by Rodin
  • Letters to the Editors
  • LIFE Visits Palumbo’s

    • Notable advertising includes: 2-page color ad for Jantzen Sunclothes and Swim Suits, 2-page ad for 7-Up, half-page ad for Schenley’s Cream of Kentucky Whiskey illustrated by Norman Rockwell*, and a Coca-Cola ad on back cover. NOTE: An * denotes ad is smaller than a full-page.

    1949-06-20 Life Magazine Contents

    1949/06/20 — Cover photograph featuring “High School Spirit” depicting Marcia Mattson is credited to Leonard McCombe.

    Contents of this issue are as follows:
    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • A Sultan’s Daughter Weds a Caliph — Photographs for LIFE by Dmitri Kessel
  • Hawaiian Strike Nears Showdown
  • Photo Flares Light Up New York
  • Princess Elizabeth Performs at Races
  • Evita Observes Argentina’s Anniversary
  • LIFE Offers Congratulations
  • Editorial: Europe in June
  • Sequel: The Hawkings Come Through Safely
  • Stalin Enjoys His Jets

    • ARTICLE:

  • Why They Confess by Konrad Heiden — The remarkable case of Hans Fritzsche

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Hillsdale High — Photographs for LIFE by Leonard McCombe

    • SPORTS:

  • The Washington Huskies – collegiate shell racing

    • BOOKS:

  • Book-Buyer No. 1 – Photo of Eustace Seligman, the Book-of-the-Month clubs first member back in 1926, posed with the 449 books he’s received since then

    • FASHION:

  • Riviera Fashions

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Tiny Cameras

    • ANIMALS:

  • Insomniac’s Delight – a photo of a huge flock of sheep being herded over the Grand Coulee Dam

    • MOVIES:

  • The “Art Movie” Begins to Pay Off

    • ART:

  • Gene Pene Du Bois — includes 3 pages of color reproductions
  • 70 Sculptors 70 — A huge photo more than a page and a half tall featuring 70 sculptors on the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art

    • TRAVEL:

  • The Skyline Drive
  • The Rocky Road to Rio

    • SCIENCE:

  • Sleeping Sickness Cure

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: New Book Turns Up Odd Old Inventions
  • Miscellany: “Raindrop” Reflections

    • Notable advertising includes: Packard ad illustrated by Melbourne Brindle, full-page for Roughshod featuring John Ireland, Robert Sterling and Gloria Grahame, Oil Industry Information Committee ad illustrated by Lynd Ward, Joan Fontaine in color for Pabst Blue Ribbon, and an ad for Lucky Strikes on the back cover. NOTE: An * denotes ad is smaller than a full-page.

    1949-06-13 Life Magazine Contents

    1949/06/13 — Cover photograph featuring Marta Toren is credited to Philippe Halsman

    Contents of this issue are as follows:
    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • A Medical Miracle Saves Mike Rector
  • Editorial: “The Slide”
  • Minnesota Dog Climbs a Fence
  • LIFE Offers Some Congratulations
  • West Virginia Convicts Recaptured
  • Danny Conquers England – Featuring Danny Kaye
  • Saginaw Buries Its Town Pump

    • ARTICLE:

  • That Oldtime Religion by Archie Robertson

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • The Coast of Europe – Color Photographs for LIFE by Eliot Elisofon – 19 pages

    • SCIENCE:

  • Colored Mice Aid in Disease Study

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Portable Steam Bath
  • Creeping Sprinkler

    • SPORTS:

  • All Girl Rodeo

    • EDUCATION:

  • Some Outstanding College Graduates

    • MOVIES:

  • Marta’s Eyes On Hollywood — Cover Girl Marta Toren

    • RADIO:

  • Sam’s Dream Comes True

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • LIFE’s Reports: Texas Eagle “Chowser” by W.W. Johnson
  • Speaking of Pictures: These Show Children’s Offguard Sidewalk Antics
  • Letters to the Editors
  • LIFE Visits the Triplets Clubs
  • Miscellany: Father Knick’s Trip

    • 1949-05-30 Life Magazine Contents

    1949/05/30 — Cover photograph features “F.D.R. at 2”

    Contents of this issue are as follows:
    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • Warsaw Rises From Its Wreckage
  • Editorial: The Roosevelts
  • FDR Jr. and Mother Display Victory Smiles
  • Monaco Buries Its Sprightly Old Prince
  • Chinook Pass Has Snowdrifts in May
  • The Hawkings Hold Last Outpost of Empire
  • John McCloy Takes on Job as Germany’s Boss

    • ARTICLE:

  • Holy Man by Winthrop Sargeant is about Sri Ramana Maharshi

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • The Early Life of Franklin D. Roosevelt – 10 full pages of mostly photos

    • SPORTS:

  • Scout’s Dream – Johnny Groth

    • MOVIES:

  • Mr. Belvedere & Mr. Webb by John Bainbridge

    • SCIENCE:

  • Gastric Geography

    • ART:

  • Gustave Courbet – 4 pages of color reproductions

    • INDUSTRY:

  • Model Factory

    • EDUCATION:

  • Syracuse Spring Weekend

    • NIGHTCLUBS:

  • Artie Shaw ‘s Bop Flop

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures:These Are All the Survivors Of the Civil War
  • LIFE Goes to the Arapahoe Hunt

    • Notable advertising includes: Jane Greer and William Bendix in The Big Steal, half page ad for Cream of Kentucky is illustrated by Norman Rockwell, Coca-Cola ad on the back cover

    1949-05-16 Life Magazine Contents

    1949/05/16 — Cover photograph featuring “Little Boxer” is credited to Rue Faris Drew.

    Contents of this issue are as follows:
    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • The Russians Back Down in Germany
  • Loss Is $6 Million in Race Track Fire
  • 19 Pigs Are Born in One Letter
  • Prices Collapse in War Between Chains
  • Labor Takes on Two Big Battles
  • Editorial: Cats and Freedom
  • Princess Margaret Goes In Swimming

    • ARTICLE:

  • What’s With the Movies? by Eric Hodgins

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • The Aga, The Aly and The Rita by Robert Coughlan – 10 page article opens with full-page b&w photo of the Aga Khan and his wife with smaller photo of his son with Rita Hayworth on the facing page. Article takes up all or part of 10 pages

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS:

  • The Atom
  • Shooting the Salmon

    • EDUCATION:

  • How to Treat Professors

    • SPORTS:

  • Kids in the Rings
  • Vicki Draves

    • BUSINESS:

  • Adhesive Bras

    • MOVIES:

  • Astaire and Rogers Dance Again – includes color photo of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in The Barkleys of Broadway
  • Tenth Tarzan – large photo of Lex Barker and then 8 small pics over a half page showing various Tarzan’s from Elmo Lincoln through Johnny Weissmuller with Buster Crabbe and others in between

    • BOOKS:

  • Happy Bibliophile

    • PEOPLE:

  • Madame Ambassadress – (Helle Bonnet)

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • LIFE’s Reports: Rugged Individualist by Joe McCarthy
  • Speaking of Pictures: A Frog Produces Babies From Pouches on Back
  • Letters to the Editors
  • Miscellany: Breakfast Faces

    • Notable advertising includes: Jennifer Jones and John Garfield in We Were Strangers, half-page ad for Vitalis featuring 3 illustrated images of Joe DiMaggio, US Brewers Foundation ad with color illustration by Douglass Crockwell

    1949-05-09 Life Magazine Contents

    1949/05/09 — Cover photograph featuring Missouri Co-Ed Jane Stone is credited to Peter Stackpole

    Contents of this issue are as follows:
    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • Nanking Is Looted
  • Orphaned Puppy Finds New Home
  • F.D.R. Jr. Turns On the Old Roosevelt Charm
  • Editorial: Peace in Berlin?
  • “Peace” Road Show Hits Snag
  • The ECA Helps Georges
  • Burmese Visit Great Gold Pagoda in Annual Festival
  • The Atomic Age Comes to Arco, Idaho

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Josh Logan by Lincoln Barnett

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Missouri vs. Smith – Photographs for LIFE by Peter Stackpole

    • MOVIES:

  • “The Stratton Story” starring Jimmy Stewart and June Allyson

    • TELEVISION:

  • Ike’s “Crusade” on TV

    • SPORTS:

  • Argentina Wins World Polo Championship

    • SCIENCE:

  • A Building Supported by Air

    • ANIMALS:

  • Persecuted Pigeons
  • Moth Catcher

    • THEATER:

  • College Do Classics

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • LIFE’s Reports: Apotheosis of Adolf Hennecke by R. Hanser
  • Speaking of Pictures: Inhabitants of a “White Collar Zoo”
  • Letters to the Editors
  • LIFE Goes to a Directors’ Meeting
  • Miscellany: Twins Marry Twins
  • Camel Cigarettes ad on back cover features baseball pitchers Gene Bearden and Johnny Vander Meer

    • 1949-05-02 Life Magazine Contents

    1949/05/02 — Cover photograph featuring “Eight-Letter Man at West Point” with Arnold Galiffa is credited to Arnold Newman.

    Contents of this issue are as follows:
    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • Irish Become a Free Nation
  • Editorial: Health by Compulsion
  • Sewell Avery Keeps His Job
  • CIO Party-Liner Wins Election
  • Madrid Observes the Parade of Silence
  • Air Force Knocks Out Navy’s Super Carrier
  • Ingrid Bergman Holds Hands With New Director – Roberto Rossellini
  • Heresy Is Charged to Church Leaders
  • Woman is Swept Off Schooner
  • A Bonapartist Protects His Honor
  • Soviets Use Cpaitalistic Advertising Campaign

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • The Great Packager by John Kobler — Raymond Loewy

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Small-Town Television

    • SCIENCE:

  • Tuberculosis Vaccine

    • NATURE:

  • In Texas Almost Everybody Paints Bluebonnets

    • MOVIES:

  • Replacement for Rita? — Corinne Calvet
  • Bayou Boy — J.C. Boudreaux

    • ART:

  • G. Braque

    • FASHION:

  • Tops for Shorts

    • INDUSTRY:

  • “Shoe Wizard’s” House

    • HOUSING:

  • World’s First Sun-Heated Home

    • SPORTS:

  • Galiffa of West Point

    • MUSIC:

  • Princeton’s Bellmaster

    • THEATER:

  • “Detective Story”

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: These Show What 300 mph Wind Does to Human Faces
  • LIFE’s Reports: Contented Ceylon by Robert Lubar
  • Miscellany: Fancy Napkin-Folding

    • Notable advertising includes: Robert Ryan in The Set-Up, 2-page ad for Chesterfield features the “Top Men in America’s Sports” — Ben Hogan, Joe DiMaggio, Frankie Albert, Jack Kramer, and Lou Boudreau, half-page ad for ASR Lighter features Humphrey Bogart *, Brian Donlevy for Blatz Beer on the inside back cover, and a Coca-Cola ad on back cover. NOTE: An * denotes ad is smaller than a full-page.

    1949-04-25 Life Magazine Contents

    1949/04/25 — Cover photograph featuring “Paris Fashions” is credited to Gordon Parks.

    Contents of this issue are as follows:
    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • Millions See Moon in Rare Total Eclipse

    • Editorials

  • Right to Hear
  • Brannan’s Plan
  • Italian Fascists Reappear
  • Pacific Northwest Has Its Worst Earthquake
  • White Russian Odyssey Reaches Philippines
  • Man Has a Merry Week
  • Seventy Farmers Prove to Be Good Neighbors
  • Military Union Is Being Perfected at Fontainebleau

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • The Trust Territory – Photographs for LIFE by Eliot Elisofon – Its 2,130 Islands form a new US domain in the Pacific

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Morgan the Great by Frederick Lewis Allen about J.P. Morgan

    • SCIENCE:

  • Mechanical Miner

    • TELEVISION:

  • The Goldbergs March On
  • Milton’s Marathon

    • FASHION:

  • Paris Styles

    • ANIMALS:

  • Hazford Rupert LXXXI – The grand old man of Hereford Bulls sired a family woirth over $1 Million
  • White Beaver

    • TRANSPORTATION:

  • The Talgo

    • SPORTS:

  • Gorgeous Gussie about #4 ranked tennis player Gussie Moran

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • LIFE’s Reports: Pieter’s X-Ray Eyes by Robert Deindorfer
  • Speaking of Pictures: US “Court Photographer” Has Some Historic Photos
  • Letters to the Editors
  • LIFE Visits the Lettuce Box

    • Notable advertising includes: two-page color illustrated ad featuring Bing Crosby and Rhonda Fleming in “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court”, half-page Cream of Kentucky Whiskey ad illustrated by Norman Rockwell, and an ad for Chesterfield Cigarettes on back cover features Joan Crawford.

    1949-04-11 Life Magazine Contents

    1949/04/11 — Cover photograph featuring “Spring Along the Mississippi” is credited to Loomis Dean.

    Contents of this issue are as follows:
    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • War in Burma
  • Editorial: The Atlantic Alliance

  • Russian Skater Hits Jackpot of Medals

  • Improper Bostonians Mob a Bargain Sale (at Filene’s)
  • Churchill Speaks in Boston

  • Wanderlust in California

  • Miss New Orleans Gets Public Paddling – Barbara Jean Cauthen bites husbands leg as he spanks her

  • Chinese Troops Train on Formosa

  • Shetland Festival

  • “Doctor Frank” Becomes a Senator
  • Casualty of Winter

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Spring on the Mississippi – Photographs for LIFE by Andreas Feininger

    • ARTICLE:

  • Divorce Court by Joe McCarthy

    • MEDICINE:

  • New Test Detects Cold Germs

    • MOVIES:

  • “Champion” with Kirk Douglas, includes a full-page photo of Douglas, plus pics with Ruth Roman, Marilyn Maxwell, and Lola Albright

    • EDUCATION:

  • One-Man Literacy Crusade – about Frank C. Laubach

    • CULTURE:

  • High-brow, Low-brow, Middle-brow – These are three basic categories of a new U.S. social structure, and the high-brows have the whip hand, with chart of their preferences

    • ART:

  • “The Rock” by Peter Blume, in color over 1-1/2 pages

    • MUSIC:

  • New York City Opera
  • Strange Sounding Names

    • HOUSING:

  • Glamourized Houses

    • TELEVISION:

  • Texas Station

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Ballplayers and Ballerina Have a Lot In Common
  • LIFE’s Reports: Visit to Evita Peron by John Dos Passos
  • People
  • LIFE Calls on Bernard Berenson

    • Notable advertising includes: Little Lulu for Kleenex, actor John Loder in color for Lord Calvert, Gail Russell for RC Cola, Mr. and Mrs. Edward G. Robinson in color for Pabst Blue Ribbon, and an ad for Camel Cigarettes on back cover features billiards greats Willie Mosconi and Willie Hoppe.