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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

    • 1938-10-17 Life Magazine Contents October 17 1938

    1938/10/17 — Cover photograph featuring Carole Lombard is by Alfred Eisenstaedt

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:
    The G.O.P. Puts Its Hope in Fresh New Faces:

  • Pennsylvania – Breaker Boy – Judge James
  • Massachussets: Blueblood – Leverett Saltonstall
  • Indiana: Country Editor – Raymond E. Willis
  • Ohio: President’s Son – Robert Taft
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • Picture of the Week: London Newsboy Sells World’s Biggest News

    • NEWS:

  • Chamberlain Has His Triumph
  • Landslide Shows Work on Fort Peck Dam
  • Garbo Returns – Lady Chamberlain Calls on the Francos
  • President Roosevelt Turns Architect for his Own Cottage

    • War in China Gambles for Asia’s Future:

  • The Battle of Hankow in Color
  • Japanese Move Up the Yangtze
  • Strategy of the War
  • Chinese Plays Inspire Hatred of Japan
  • Queen Elizabeth Christens the “Queen Elizabeth”
  • First Pictures of Gambling at Deauville

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • A Loud Cheer for the Screwball Girl – Carole Lombard – 4 pages packed with photos plus parts of 3 additional pages

    • SPORT:

  • Football – Minnesota Produces the Greatest Teams

    • SCIENCE:

  • Sex Hormones

    • FASHION:

  • Tweed Goes to Night Clubs

    • THEATER:

  • “Kiss the Boys Goodbye

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: War Comes Close to British Gardens
  • People
  • Pictures to the Editors

    • 1939-11-13 Life Magazine Contents November 13 1939

    1939/11/13 — Cover photograph featuring Claudette Colbert is by Alfred Eisenstaedt

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:
    U.S. Business Opens Great Barco Oil Fields in Columbia

  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • Japanese Sentry in Hawaii Demands Salute from Americans
  • Congress Kills Arms Embargo
  • Germans Picture Attack on Rosyth Naval Base
  • New York and San Francisco Fairs Close
  • A British Convoy Crosses the North Sea
  • Giant Snow Cruiser Comes to Grief

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • The Argentines – LIFE Looks South at a Great and Proud People

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Who’s Who in the German High Command – German Generals including Keitel, Halder, Von Rundstedt, Von Bock

    • ART:

  • Peter Scott Is Best British Bird Painter

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • London Adapts Fashions to Blackouts
  • Dorothy Lamour ‘s Winter Sarong

    • RADIO:

  • “Information Please” is Made into Movie Short

    • THEATER:

  • Gertrude Lawrence Stars in “Skylark”

    • SPORTS:

  • Girls’ Football

    • “Drums Along the Mohawk” starring cover subject Claudette Colbert and Henry Fonda

    OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Denis Conan Doyle ‘s Spirit Photographs
  • LIFE Calls on Helen Hayes
  • Pictures to the Editors