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1941-10-07 Look Magazine Contents

1941/10/07 — Cover photograph of Linda Dean is credited to Mead Maddick Lownds

Contents as taken from this issue’s index are as follows:
NATIONAL SPOTLIGHT:

  • Fire – Hitler’s Strongest Weapon-_America’s Fiercest Saboteur by Eliot Ness and Jo Chamberlin
  • 30 College Students and Mrs. Roosevelt
  • Americans, Inc. II — Scandinavian Americans

    • WORLD SPOTLIGHT:

  • Bermuda – a Paradise Divided

    • NATIONAL DEFENSE:

  • The St. Lawrence Seaway Is Vital to Our Defense by Senator Robert M. La Follette, Jr.
  • LOOK’s Clinic on U.S. Morale by Shelby Cullom Davis
  • We Have No Air Power by Maj. Alexander de Seversky

    • PEOPLE:

  • A Photographer’s Baby Grows Up in the Lens’ Eye
  • Meet the People

    • SPORTS:
    A Tough irishman Takes Over the Irish by Jack Guenther about Frank Leahy

  • Luck Wins the World Series by George Kirksey

    • MOVIES AND STAGE:

  • The World’s Number One Ballerina – Tamara Toumanova
  • What Bob Hope Thinks of Bob Hope
  • What LOOK Thinks of Bob Hope
  • No Greater Sin — New Movie Review by Kenneth Purdy

  • Other LOOK Reviews by James Francis Crow

    • STYLE, BEAUTY AND HOMEMAKING:

  • Cooking for Fun by Ben Irvin Butler
  • Spotlight of Fashion

    • TEST YOURSELF:

  • Photoquiz
  • Photocrime

    • LETTERS:

  • And Pictures from Our LOOK Readers

    • 1941-09-09 Look Magazine Contents

    1941/09/09 — Cover photograph of Gale Storm and Betty Ann Anderson is credited to Earl Theisen

    Contents as taken from this issue’s index are as follows:
    NATIONAL SPOTLIGHT:

  • Roosevelt’s 10 Greatest Mistakes by Carlisle Bargeron

    • WORLD SPOTLIGHT:

  • Low on the War

    • NATIONAL DEFENSE:

  • Why We Will Fight Japan–Soon by Hallett Abend
  • This Is Why Our Gasoline Is Rationed
  • Where Do We Stand After One Year of Defense? by Raymond Clapper
  • Detroit Is America’s Greatest Arsenal

    • PEOPLE:

  • Meet the People
  • The Story of an American Widow

    • SPORTS:
    A Parachute Spinnaker

  • Football Forecast by George Kirksey
  • How to Watch a Horse Race by Bryan Field

    • MOVIES:

  • LOOK’s New Movie Reviews by James Francis Crow with photos from “Unfinished Business” including Robert Montgomery with director Gregory La Cava and one of character actor Eugene Pallette
  • Hollywood Goes Back to Work by J.C. Herrick
  • LOOK Polls the Movie Exhibitors

    • HOLIDAYS:

  • The Diaries of Two Girls on a Trip to the Yukon featuring cover girls Storm and Anderson

    • HEALTH, BEAUTY AND HOMEMAKING:

  • You Don’t Have to Be Fat by Frank H. Netter, M.D.
  • Spotlight of Fashion
  • Cooking for Fun by Ben Irvin Butler

    • TEST YOURSELF:

  • Photocrime
  • Photoquiz

    • LETTERS:

  • And Pictures from Our LOOK Readers
  • Full-page color ad for “Aloha of the South Seas” starring Jon Hall and Dorothy Lamour

    • 1941-05-06 Look Magazine Contents

    1941/05/06 — Cover photograph of Anita Sympson and a Beechcraft biplane is credited to Fred LaTour

    Contents as taken from this issue’s index are as follows:
    NATIONAL SPOTLIGHT:

  • Meet the People

    • WORLD SPOTLIGHT:

  • The War at Sea
  • Exclusive Color Photos from Inside Russia

    • NATIONAL DEFENSE:

  • New York’s Blueprint for National Defense
  • Dressing the Army

    • SPORTS:

  • Bicycles
  • The Kentucky Derby’s Three Old Men by Jack Guenther, about Matt J. Winn, Daniel E. O’Sullivan, Charles F. Price

    • MOVIES:

  • The Devil and Miss Jones — LOOK Preview by James Francis Crow, with photos of stars Jean Arthur, Charles Coburn, Robert Cummings, Spring Byington
  • LOOK Recommends Four New Pictures, actually I only see two “The Wagons Roll at Night,” “Penny Serenade,” and that’s it (the section is complete)
  • A Rainy Day With Judy Garland – 2-1/2 pages of mostly photos

    • STYLE AND BEAUTY:

  • Clothes Make the Team

    • HOMEMAKING:

  • Decorate Your Own Home
  • Cooking for Fun by Ben Irvin Butler

    • TEST YOURSELF:

  • Photocrime
  • Photoquiz

    • LETTERS:

  • And Pictures from Our LOOK Readers

    • 1940-01-02 Look Magazine Contents

    1940/01/02 — Cover photograph of Judy Garland is credited to Willinger

    Contents as taken from this issue’s index are as follows:
    AMERICAN SPOTLIGHT:

  • Labor Needs a Peacemaker by Stanley High
  • Calendar for 1940
  • The Dies Committee – How American Is It? by Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen
  • John Black’s Body – An Anti-War Book
  • Vassar College at 75

    • BRAIN TEASERS:

  • Photocrime
  • The LOOK Quiz – By Irving Tressler

    • LETTERS:

  • From LOOK Readers

    • MOVIES:

  • Lupe Velez Gives a Party
  • Of Mice and Men – A Preview – 4 pages including nearly full-page black & white photo of Lon Chaney, Jr.
  • Gulliver’s Travels – A Preview

    • PEOPLE:

  • Kaltenbourn Broadcasts
  • Band Leaders Win Society Brides

    • SPORTS:

  • America Turns to Snow Sports by Larry Nixon
  • My All-America Football Team – The University of Chicago by Henry McLemore

    • WORLD SPOTLIGHT:

  • Joseph Stalin – Red Emperor – Part 1 of 2 — By John Gunther

    • 1938-11-08 Look Magazine Contents

    1938/11/08 — ITEM DESCRIPTION:
    Volume 2, Number 23 of LOOK Magazine, from the early days when it consisted entirely of photo-essays.

    Paging through the issue some of the contents are as follows:

  • “Twenty Years of WAR — 1918-1938” — 6-pages highlighting problems over the past twenty years ending with a half page of text titled “What Next, Mr. Chamberlain?” with a photo of Neville Chamberlain
  • “Lucius Beebe … America’s Leading Snob” — 2-pages
  • “Experts DebateL The Birth Control Issue” 4-pages of Margaret Sanger & Dr. Eric M. Matsner vs. the Rev. Edward Lodge Curran
  • “A Glamour Girl Goes to Bed” — 2-pages of Joyce Matthews
  • “He Will Dive to His Death If He Misses This Small Tank” 3-pages depicting Capt. Jimmy Jamison making a 110-foot dive into 14″ wide pool below.
  • “$30-Every-Thursday! Is It Utopia or Is California Making SUCKERS Out of Old Foks” — 2-pages
  • “Let’s All Buy a New Car” — 2-pages of cartoons by Jefferson Machamer
  • “Mickey Rooney … He’s Only 17 But He Gets More Fan Mail Than Gable” — half a page
  • “From the Family Album of Bette Davis — These Pictures Tell Her Story, Year by Year — 4-pages
  • “Should You Pick Up Hitchhikers?”
  • “Wrestling Has Jitterbugs, Too” — 1-1/2 pages of wrestling fans
  • Thomas E. Dewey — 2-pages
  • “From the Secret Files of a Press Agent — Come These Uncensored Pictures of Stars” — 1-1/2 pages including pics of Norma Shearer, Paulette Goddard, Ginger Rogers, Mr. & Mrs. Spencer Tracy (Louise Treadwell), Joan Blondell
  • “Latest News of the Quints: — 2-pages of Dionne Quintuplets
  • “Anne Morrow Lindbergh Describes Her Flying Thrills in Her New Book…Listen! The Wind” — 2-pages
  • “LOOK’s New Movie Review — There Goes My Heart” starring Virginia Bruce, Fredric March, Patsy Kelly — 2-pages
  • On the back cover is a color ad for Suez starring Tyrone Power, Loretta Young and Annabella
  • Plus several other features.
  • 60 pages total including the covers.

    • 1938-09-13 Look Magazine Contents

    1938/09/13 — ITEM DESCRIPTION:
    Volume 2, Number 19 of LOOK Magazine, from the early days when it consisted entirely of photo-essays.

    Paging through the issue some of the contents are as follows:

  • “Yellowstone National Park Completes Its 66th Season as The Nation’s Most Famous Vacation Spot” — 2-pages
  • “Aimee Semple McPherson — I Am God’s Best Publicity Agent” — 4-pages
  • “Women vs. Men” is a page of cartoons by Jefferson Machamer
  • “Insiders Say One of These Three Congregationalists Will Be Republican Presidential Nominee in 1940” — 1 page of mostly text with a photo of each of the three: Senator Arthur Vandenberg, Congressman Bruce Barton and Senator Harry S. Bridges
  • “The Case For and Against … The American Legion” — 4-pages
  • “I Didn’t Want to Be a Songwriter — The Story of Irving Berlin” — 2-pages
  • “Why Do Women Kill?” — 4-pages of female murderers
  • “My Toughest Fights by Jack Dempsey” is 2-pages of 28 small photos with captions from the famous 1927 “Long Count” fight vs Gene Tunney
  • “America’s Most Famous Freshman — Bill De Correvont — Can He Live Up to His Ballyhoo as a Football Hero?” — 1-1/2 pages
  • “LOOK’s New Movie Preview — Suez” starring Tyrone Power, Loretta Young, Annabella — 2-pages
  • “Lud … The World’s No. 1 Model” about Ludmilla Fedossew Boucoiram — 2-pages
  • “Bunk! There is No Feud Between Helen Moody and Helen Jacobs” – 1 page
  • “I Used to Look Like a Blimp … But Look At Me Now Says Patsy Kelly” — 1-page
  • “Meet Mr. Moto … If You Want a Broken Arm” is a half-page with Peter Lorre and stuntman Harvey Parry
  • “Joan Bennett Takes a $25,000 Bubble Bath” is on the inside back cover
  • Plus several other features.
  • 52 pages total including the covers.

    • 1938-08-16 Look Magazine Contents

    1938/08/16 — ITEM DESCRIPTION:
    Volume 2, Number 17 of LOOK Magazine, from the early days when it consisted entirely of photo-essays.

    Paging through the issue some of the contents are as follows:

  • “Head G-Man Tells You — How to Guard Your Child Against Kidnappers — At LOOK’s Request, J. Edgar Hoover Gives 20 Ideas to Keep Baby Snatchers Away From Your Home” – 3-pages
  • “How I Throw My Fast Ball” by “No Hit” Johnny Vander Meer – 1-page
  • “A Critical Survey of Plastic Surgery” – 3-pages of before and after photos
  • “A New Generation Thrills to Rudolph Valentino in The Sheik” – 2-pages
  • “America’s Most Popular Plays Albie’s Irish Rose and Tobacco Road” – 3-pages
  • “Reformed Playboy Still Plays Too Much Says His Wife” 2-pages about Edna Dunham and Philip M. Plant
  • “The Roosevelt Boys Marry Rich Women” – 1-page
  • “Science Helps the Police Detect Drunken Drivers” – 2-pages
  • “Four Famous Artists Draw a Girl They’ve Never Seen … From This X-Ray Picture of Her” — Each of the artists is pictured: Peter Arno, W.T. Benda, James Montgomery Flagg and McClelland Barclay as is each of their sketches from the X-Ray and on the third and final page of this feature there is a photo of the actual woman that the X-Ray was taken of.
  • “Mending A Dog’s Broken Leg”
  • “There Is No Perfect Figure” includes photos of Sonja Henie, Joan Crawford, Claudette Colbert, and other famous women
  • “The Shoe Shine Boy — The True Story of a Child Who, at 10, Is His Family’s Chief Support”
  • “Hitler Thinks She Has the Ideal Figure” is a large photo of Leni Riefenstahl skiing on the inside back cover.
  • Plus several other features.
  • 52 pages total including the covers.

    • 1938-07-05 Look Magazine Contents

    1938/07/05 — ITEM DESCRIPTION:
    Volume 2, Number 14 of LOOK Magazine, from the early days when it consisted entirely of photo-essays.

    Paging through the issue some of the contents are as follows:

  • “The Thrilling Story of Spies” with photos of Mata Hari, Claude France, Edith Cavell, carrier pigeons; 2-pages titled “Tricks of the Spy’s Trade”; another 2-pages titled “The Tragic Fate of Spies” with before and after capture photos of Jane Anderson, Baroness Victoria von Kretschman, anonymous spy hanging, another lying dead in a field, several Serbian spies lined up blindfolded to be shot, and more.
  • Lou Gehrig “How Long Can Baseball’s Iron Man Keep Going?” is 2-pages of Gehrig photos including 4 of his swing and follow-through, one of him with Babe Ruth, one with his wife, one playing football at Columbia, one as a movie cowboy and another trying out for Tarzan.
  • “LOOK Looks Into….Why Movie Theater Owners Complain The Biggest Stars Are Poison at the Box Office” with photos of Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Mae West, Katharine Hepburn and Kay Francis. The next two pages are titled “LOOK Looks Into…These Are NOT Poison at the Box Office: They Draw the Biggest Crowds” with photos of Shirley Temple, Myrna Loy, Clark Gable, Jane Withers, Bing Crosby, Robert Taylor, Sonja Henie, Ginger Rogers, Gary Cooper and William Powell.
  • 2-pages of cops and robbers with “You Can’t Get a Gun Without a Permit…But Gangsters Can”
  • “Unlucky in Love — The Story of Fanny Brice” is 1-1/2 pages
  • “The Strangest Sights I’ve Seen” by Robert Ripley, is two page of Ripley and his oddities
  • Glenn Cunningham — “He Prefers Fun With the Baby to Fame as a Great Runner” – 2-pages
  • Bernarr Macfadden — “Building Bodies Built His Millions” – 2-pages
  • “Any Girl Can Have Glamour … Constance Bennett Says And Here She Proves It!” — 2-pages, but only one photo of Bennett the rest of Betty Clymer, an “average working girl” that Bennett bet Norman McLeod $25 she could make glamourous
  • Plus several other features.
  • 52 pages total including the covers.

    • 1938-05-24 Look Magazine Contents

    1938/05/24 — ITEM DESCRIPTION:
    Volume 2, Number 11 of LOOK Magazine, from the early days when it consisted entirely of photo-essays.

    Paging through the issue some of the contents are as follows:

  • “WPA Workers Conquer Ohio’s 54-Year-Old Mine-Fire” — 2-pages
  • “300,000,000 Catholics Pray for Pope Pius’ Health” — 2-pages
  • “Mexico’s Greatest Bullfight” — 2-pages
  • “If Fascism Comes to America … This Is What It Will Mean to You” — 6-pages
  • “How the Quintuplets Differ from Each Other” — 1-page
  • “From Stout to Slim … Miracles of Reducing” includes before and after photos of Barbara Hutton, Marion Talley, Marion Pierce and Paul Whiteman
  • “Grin and Bear It, Says Lichy” is 1-page with a photo of George Maurice Lichtenstein along with 6 of his cartoons
  • “25 Years With Cecil B. DeMille Master of Movie Spectacles” — 4-pages of photos from his films including Gloria Swanson in “Male and Female,” Dustin Farnum in 1913’s “The Squaw Man,” Geraldine Farrar in 1915’s “Carmen,” Claudette Colbert in “Four Frightened People,” plus photos of DeMille and family
  • “Royalty’s Prettiest Mother” is The Duchess of Kent — 1-1/2 pages
  • “Fred MacMurray Ducks Carole Lombard” is 4 photos on 1-page of MacMurray dunking Lombard underwater.
  • “How An Expert Plays Golf — Magic Eye Camera Catches Famed Golfer John Montague in Action” is a page and a half, one page with a 12-pic shot and the half-page with an 8-pic shot
  • “Mack Sennett — 25 Years Ago He Created the Bathing Beauty — Today He Gets an Award” — 3-1/2 pages with photos of Sennett, Louise Fazenda, Gloria Swanson, Carole Lombard, Armida, Sally Eilers, Madeline Hurlock, Toby Wing, Phyllis Haver, Vera Reynolds, and Duane Thompson
  • “Famous Narrow Escapes … of Newsreel Photographers”
  • Plus several other features.
  • 68 pages total including the covers.

    • 1937-08-31 Look Magazine Contents

    1937/08/31 — ITEM DESCRIPTION:
    Volume 1, Number 14 of LOOK Magazine, from the early days when it consisted entirely of photo-essays.

    Paging through the issue some of the contents are as follows:

  • “The Story of a Great Man — This Priest Sacrificed His Life for Lepers” about Father Damien who died in 1889 — 3-pages
  • “The Story of Dead End — A Great Play Comes to the Screen” — 2-pages with Joel McCrea and Sylvia Sidney
  • “She Stands On Her Head to Keep Fit at 72” — 1-page about Elsie de Wolfe including a photo of her as an actress in her younger days
  • Factory-Built Houses…The Latest Trend in Modern Construction” — 2-pages
  • “World’s Prettiest Athlete” is one-page with a large color photo of Eleanor Holm Jarrett
  • “The Tragedy of a Gangster’s Doll” — 1-page about Kiki Roberts
  • “The Third Degree — Brutal Police Methods Sometimes Used on Prisoners” — 2-pages
  • “Umpiring … The Toughest Job in Baseball” — 3 pages
  • “How a Lie Detector Works” — 1-page
  • “How Girls Live in German Labor Camps” — 2-pages
  • “The Funniest Picture of the Year” is the 2-page center-spread is of a girl standing on her head alonside an elephant standing on its head
  • “The Story of the Iron Lung” — 2-pages
  • “Katharine Hepburn … Hollywood’s Problem Girl” — 4-pages
  • “How They Make Wax Figures of Movie Stars” — 2-pages including wax heads of Clark Gable, Joan Crawford and cover-head Greta Garbo
  • “A Plane Crashes — It Happened at a St. Louis Air Show” — 2-pages
  • “A Chorus Girl Talks About Men” — Vera Devine — 1-page
  • Plus several other features.
  • 52 pages total including the covers.

    • 1937-06-08 Look Magazine Contents

    1937/06/08 — ITEM DESCRIPTION:
    Volume 1, Number 8 of LOOK Magazine, from the early days when it consisted entirely of photo-essays.

    Paging through the issue some of the contents are as follows:

  • “A Chinese Dentist Pulls a Tooth” is a pretty excruciating looking photo on the inside front cover
  • “Is This Christ’s Shroud?” – 1-page
  • “Some Famous Perfect Features” 1-page.
  • “The Man Who Sells Beauty — John Roberts Powers, Boss of a Thousand Models” 2-pages followed by 1-page titled “Tricks of Modeling” and another page titled “Artists and Models”
  • “Jungle Vengeance…Indians Torture White Women to Death” is 1-page of photos that are supposed to be from Iquitos, Peru in 1920
  • 2-page color center spread is a large picture of Ethel de Pont with some text underneath
  • “George Bernard Shaw — England’s Bad Boy — He Shocks Everybody” 1-page
  • “Hara-Kiri — How a Japanese Warrior Commits Suicide” – 2-pages
  • “Shark — Cannibal of the Sea” and “Do Sharks Eat Men?” is 2-pages of sharks
  • “America’s Favorite Honeymooners — William Powell and Myrna Loy” is 8-pages total of photos of Powell and Loy from their earliest days up to the present, great photo-feature!
  • The back cover previews the next issue and has a large color photo of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
  • Plus several other features.
  • 44 pages total including the covers.