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1944-07-17 Life Magazine Contents July 17 1944

1944/07/17 — Cover photograph featuring Peasant Clothes in Fashion is credited to Nina Leen

Contents of this issue are as follows:

THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • Task Force 58 by Noel F. Busch
  • Editorial: Three Russians
  • Washington Welcomes De Gaulle
  • World Money-Men Confer
  • Fire Destroys the Big Top
  • Corsicans Punish Traitorous Women

    • ARTICLE:

  • Japanese Beetle by Anthony Standen

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Mayor Kelly’s Chicago — 11 pages packed with photos

    • ARMY & NAVY:

  • Airmen Convalesce at Pawling Center

    • MEDICINE:

  • Penicillin Mass Production

    • MOVIES:

  • “Two Girls” with Gloria DeHaven and June Allyson

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Peasant Clothes

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: These Show Four Classes of Bird Feathers
  • LIFE Goes to the Widener Auction
  • Pictures to the Editors
  • Interesting full-page text ad from NBC: Television and NBC