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