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1938-05-29 Life Magazine Contents Page for May 29, 1938

1939/05/29 — Cover featuring Eleanor Roosevelt is credited to Mark Kauffman

Contents of this issue are as follows:

THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • The King and Queen Sit on an American Throne
  • The British Ambassador Holds His First Press Conference
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the Wolrd
  • Peru’s Unbelievable Mother and Baby
  • Bayonets Gleam in Bloody Harlan County
  • Doctors Put Patients in “Frozen Sleep”
  • Rochester Gets Tryout of Federal Stamp Plan for Giving food to Needy
  • Navy Searchlights Play for New York as Sailors Take in Coney Island
  • Mr. Woodward Sees His Johnstown Lose Preakness to Maryland’s Favorite Horse
  • The Shah of Iran Shows Off His Capital at Son’s Wedding

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Franco – A Dictator in Spite of Himself
  • … and His Generals Who Won the Spanish War

    • THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Hyde Park – The President’s Estate

    • THEATER:

  • Amateur Theater – U.S. Drama Flourishes Far From Broadway

    • ART:

  • Old Masters Worth $30,000,000 Go to New York Fair

    • SPORTS:

  • Maryland Schoolboys Crack Skulls and Shins at Lacrosse Game

    • NATURAL HISTORY:

  • A Stork Family Rears Its Young

    • MOVIE:

  • “The Puritan” – French Murder Film Runs into Censor Trouble

    • WORLD’S FAIR:

  • Soviet Worker Towers Over Fair
  • Expensive WPA Building Causes Ruckus

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures — Cobina Wright is the “Most” Girl
  • People
  • LIFE Goes to a Children’s Dancing Class
  • Pictures to the Editors

    • 1942-04 Ladies Home Journal Magazine Contents

    1942/04 — Cover design by Preston Duncan

    Contents as taken from the contents page and paging through the issue:

    COMPLETE IN ONE ISSUE NOVEL:

  • A Far-Off Music by Ursula Parrott and illustrated by Andrew Loomis

    • FICTION:

  • The Athaletic Type by Sarah Lorimer and illustrated by Robert O. Reid
  • Drivin’ Woman — Part 3 of 6 by Elizabeth Pickett Chevalier and illustrated by Al Parker
  • Aunt Ella Takes a Trip by Marcelene Cox and illustrated by Norman Rockwell
  • The Irresistible Object by Phyllis Duganne and illustrated by Jon Whitcomb
  • These Foolish Things by Dorothy Black and illustrated by Walter Biggs
  • The Heart Has April Too — part 4 of 5 by Gladys Taber and illustrated by Jon Whitcomb

    • SPECIAL FEATURES:

  • Orange Juice — Penny a Glass
  • This War and teh Common Sense of Women by Dorothy Johnson
  • Could Your Husband Take It? by Bette Davis
  • If You Ask Me by Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Give the First Baby Second Place by Paul Popenoe
  • How Old Are You? by Constance J. Foster
  • How America Lives
  • Meet the Griffins, of Lyndon, Kentucky
  • How Should Children Be Trained for a War Situation? by Leslie B. Hohman, M.D.

    • GENERAL FEATURES:

  • Our Readers Write us
  • Scandal Sheet – The Sub-Deb by Elizabeth Woodward
  • Fifty Years Ago in the Journal
  • Journal About Town
  • How to Torture Your Friends by Peter Storme and Paul Stryfe
  • This Is America: Breed by Struthers Burt
  • This Is a Fidgety by Munro Leaf
  • Ask Any Woman by Marcelene Cox
  • Diary of Domesticity by Gladys Taber
  • Journal’s End by Ann Batchelder
  • Reference Library

    • FASHION AND BEAUTY:

  • Your Favorite Has a Dual Personality by Wilhela Cushman
  • Make It Look Like Spring by Wilhela Cushman
  • April Additions to a Spring Wardrobe by Dawn Crowell
  • How Good Are You? by Ruth Mary Packard
  • You Might Consider by Ruth mary Packard
  • Four-Piece, Year-Round by Ruth Mary Packard
  • Heads High–Backs Straightn by Louise Paine Benjamin

    • FOOD AND HOMEMAKING:

  • Serve Something Simple by Ann Batchelder
  • Line a Day by Ann Bathelder
  • Keeping His Best Foot Forward by Grace L. Pennock
  • Nutrition Made Easy for the Griffins by Louella G. Shouer
  • Make Your Rubber Goods Last by Margaret Davidson

    • BUILDING, INTERIOR DECORATION AND GARDEN:

  • First Victory House by Richard Pratt
  • “I Made Them Myself” by Henrietta Murdock
  • Finishing the Attic by Richard Pratt
  • A Garden of Animals by Richard Pratt

    • POETRY:

  • For An Old Fisherman by Eleanor Alletta Chaffee
  • In the Spring by George Stewart
  • City Robin by Geraldine Ross
  • Washington in April by Ethel Barnett De Vito
  • The Need of Speech by Marion Lineaweaver
  • Equivalence by Louise Shaw
  • To A Disapproving Spouse by Virginia Scott Miner
  • Sea Will Remain by Robert P. Tristram Coffin
  • Occupations by Grace Noll Crowell
  • 160 pages plus covers inside this oversized magazine

    • 1943-05 Ladies Home Journal Magazine Contents

    1943/05 — Cover design by Wilhelm Cushman – Photograph by James Abbe, Jr.

    Contents as taken from the contents page and paging through the issue:

    NOVEL COMPLETE IN THIS ISSUE:

  • Intimate Strangers by Mildred Cran and illustrated by Al Parker

    • FICTION:

  • Navy Nurse — Part 1 of 5 by Gladys Taber and illustrated by Lt. Jon Whitcomb U.S.N.R.
  • Life Can Be Skunky by Sarah Lorimer and illustrated by Robert O. Reid
  • Sorrow Acre by Isak Dinesen
  • It’s a Wise Child by Anne Hall and illustrated by R.G. Harris
  • Journey Proud by Gene Henry and illustrated by Arthur William Brown
  • Survival — Part 4 of 6 — by Phyllis Bottome and illustrated by Andrew Loomis

    • SPECIAL FEATURES:

  • A War For What? by Dorothy Thompson
  • Junior Home Nurses by Betty Hannah Hoffman
  • For 40,000,000 Reasons by Beatrice Blackmar Gould
  • The Teacher Looks at Delinquency by Samuel Tenenbaum
  • If You Ask Me by Eleanor Roosevelt
  • College on $300 a Year by Paul Popenoe
  • How America Lives
  • Meet the Lusks, of Avon, Connecticut
  • Child-Training Rules and Temper Tantrums by Leslie B. Hohman, M.D.
  • You Can Help Avert a Paper Shortage

    • GENERAL FEATURES:

  • Our Readers Write Us
  • Doctor’s Orders — The Sub-Deb by Elizabeth Woodward
  • Your Men in Uniform
  • Fifty Years Ago in the Journal
  • Journal About Town
  • Reference Library
  • Ask Any Woman by Marcelene Cox
  • This Can Be America – “Practical Men” by Struthers Burt
  • Fun to Make — Gay Little Party Napkins
  • Are You Right About Love and Marriage by Donald A. Laird
  • This Is a Food-Waster by Munro Leaf
  • Diet in Pregnancy by Dr. Herman N. Bundesen
  • Diary of Domesticity by Gladys Taber

    • FASHIONS AND BEAUTY:

  • Stars in Your Wardrobe by Wilhela Cushman
  • Trousseau for a Day by Wilhela Cushman
  • Good_Neighborhood Policy by Dawn Crowell
  • Sewing Means Saving by Ruth Mary Packard
  • Hands At Work by Louise Paine Benjamin

    • INTERIOR DECORATING AND GARDENING:

  • Gardens Off the Ground by Richard Pratt
  • No Priorities in Antiques by Henrietta Murdock
  • A Garden to Get In by Richard Pratt
  • The Summer Campaign by The Gardener’s Assistant

    • FOOD AND HOMEMAKING:

  • Fisherman’s Luck by Ann Batchelder
  • Line a Day by Ann Batchelder
  • Thrifty Ways for War Days by Margaret Davidson
  • Something Can Be Done by Margaret Davidson
  • The Lusks Can As They Grow by Louella G. Shouer

  • Follow the Fruit Parade by Louella G. Shouer

  • Main Dishes on Your Budget by Louella G. Shouer

    • POETRY:

  • The American Way of Life by Jan Struther

  • Copycats by W.E. Farbstein

  • What Is In Water? by Glenn Ward Dresbach

  • Women Mending by Nelle Graves McGill
  • Defense Worker by Janet Moore

  • Cockade by Agnes Yarnell
  • 166 pages plus covers inside this oversized magazine

    • 1940-06 Ladies Home Journal Magazine Contents

    1940/06 — Cover design by Steichen

    Contents as taken from the contents page and paging through the issue:

    NOVEL COMPLETE IN THIS ISSUE:

  • Quiet Family Wedding by Naomi Lane Babson and illustrated by John Falter

    • FICTION:

  • Speak No Evil — Part 1 of 5 by Mignon G. Eberhart and illustrated by Stanley Parkhouse
  • As Far Apart as the Polls by George Bradshaw and illustrated by Al Parker
  • Love Your Neighbor by Dorothy Black and illustrated by Haddon Sundblom
  • Common Ground by Sarah-Elizabeth Rodger and illustrated by Tom Lovell
  • Women in White — Part 4 of 5 by Franken Meloney and illustrated by Robert G. Harris

    • SPECIAL FEATURES:

  • Mrs. Drummond Writes Us
  • Cleanup in Lubbock by Paul W. Kearney
  • Youth and the Real World by Dorothy Thompson
  • Early Cancer Can Often Be Cured by Parker Morell
  • The White House Speaks by Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Heart Q. by Hughes Mearns
  • Mr. and Mrs. Walter Winchell by Parker Morell
  • Time of My Life — Conclusion by Katharine Brush
  • How America Lives — No. 5
  • Meet the Cricks, of Cucamonga, California

    • GENERAL FEATURES:

  • Moneky Business — The Sub-Deb by Elizabeth Woodward
  • Fifty Years Ago in the Journal
  • Journal About Town
  • Diary of Domesticity by Gladys Taber
  • This Is a Won’t Try by Munro Leaf
  • Diphtheria by Dr. Herman N. Bundesen
  • As the Twig Is Bent — No. 14 by Leslie B. Hohman, M.D.
  • Journal’s End by Ann Batchelder
  • Reference Library

    • FASHIONS AND BEAUTY:

  • Make Your Own, Make Them Gay by Charlotte Johnson
  • This Is My Trousseau … and My Summer Wardrobe by Ruth Mary Packard
  • “I Have Three Growing Daughers” by Louise Paine Benjamin
  • Learning to Dress on an Allowance by Wilhela Cushman
  • You Might Have to Reconsider the Rebirth of Your Trousseau by Ruth Mary Packard
  • Shoe Counsel for Cool Comfort by Ruth Mary Packard

    • FOOD AND HOMEMAKING:

  • Happy Is the Bride by Ann Batchelder
  • Line a Day by Ann Batchelder
  • It’s Everybody’s Job by Grace L. Pennock
  • “I Want to Remodel My Sink” by Grace L. Pennock

  • Eating Out With the Cricks by Louella G. Shouer
  • Crick “Specials” by Louella G. Shouer

    • INTERIOR DECORATION, BUILDING AND GARDEN:

  • Gardens Outside Your Window by Richard Pratt
  • “Our Swimming Pool Cost $200” by Richard Pratt
  • “We Like the Outdoor Type of Living Room” by Henrietta Murdock
  • Spots for “Crickettes” by Henrietta Murdock
  • Food for Flower by The Gardener’s Assistant

    • POETRY:

  • Success by Emily Dickinson
  • Not Dreaming by Helene Mullins
  • Other Music by Elford Caughey
  • The Gardener by Selma R. Osterman
  • Dream in this Quiet by George Abbe
  • Discipline by Elizabeth G. Stewart

  • Private Performance by Ida Marian Breed
  • 140 pages plus covers inside this oversized magazine