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1939-07-03 Life Magazine Contents Page for July 3, 1939

1939/07/03 — Cover featuring Swimsuits in Fashion is credited to George Strock

Contents of this issue are as follows:

THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • An American Admiral and Forty Warships Stand Guard on Asia’s War
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • Tom Dewey, Golfer, Takes a Drink
  • Colleges Turn Out Honorary “Doctors”
  • TVA Becomes Master of Tennessee Power
  • Tallulah Bankhead Lobbies “Uncle John” for the Federal Theatre Project …. While 12,000 Actors Brawl in New York
  • Sidney Wooderson Loses a Race
  • Price Edward Cuts Up
  • Nijinsky Dances Again in a Swiss Insane Asylum
  • A Republican Senator and a Democratic Representative Debate National Policy
  • Germany Enters Race for Colonies in Antarctica

    • THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • LIFE Goes to the New York World’s Fair – 16 pages

    • RELIGION:

  • Salvation Army Cadets Get Commissions to Carry on “Soup and Soap” Evangelism

    • SCIENCE:

  • Black Light Enables Traffic to Move in Black-Outs

    • ART:

  • Bowery Bum Gets Benefit Show by Noted Artists

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Hollywood Starlets Cause Red Menace in Beach Clothes

    • MOVIES:

  • “Bachelor Mother” starring Ginger Rogers

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures — Blumenfeld’s Are the Tops
  • Pictures to the Editors

    • 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

    • 1939-07-17 Life Magazine Contents Page for July 17, 1939

    1939/07/17 — Cover featuring Lord Halifax is credited to Margaret Bourke-White

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • Italy Celebrates the Scientific Genius of Leonardo da Vinci
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • Theodore Roosevelt Takes His Place on Mount Rushmore
  • First Autogiro Mail Service Starts
  • Federal Theater Drops Curtain
  • Pilot Escapes Death by Electrocution after Crash into Power Line
  • Lord Halifax Eats Lunch on Train to Geneva
  • Irish Terrorists Throw Bombs in London
  • Henry Ford Sets Out to “Revolutionize Farming” with new Lightweight Tractor

    • THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • The Telephone Company
  • The Spanish “Army” in France – 350,000 Loyalist Refugees Fill Camps

    • MOVIES:

  • Movie Girls Fight Hard to Screen “The Women”
  • THE WIZARD OF OZ – 2 pages with some text but mostly full-color scene shots from the movie, 8 photos in all
  • VIVIEN LEIGH AS SCARLETT O’HARA in Gone With the Wind – A single page,most of it filled with large photo of Leigh at the bottom of the staircase as Scarlett

    • Theater:

  • New Musical Shows on Broadway: “From Vienna” and “Streets of Paris”

    • ART:

  • New Editions of Best Modern Sculpture Sell for $10 Up

    • HORTICULTURE:

  • Roses

    • NATURAL HISTORY:

  • Childless Texas Couple Adopt Baby Chimpanzees

    • MODERN LIVING

  • Northerners Succumb to Summer Suits

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures — The Navy Rounds the Horn
  • LIFE Goes Bicycling in Maine
  • Pictures to the Editors

    • 1949-01-03 Life Magazine Contents Page for January 3, 1949

    1949/01/03 — Cover photograph featuring Famous Baby Dwight D. Eisenhower is credited to Nina Leen.

    Contents of this issue are as follows:
    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • A Great Photographer Takes a Last Look at Peiping

    • Editorials:

  • Forecast for ’49
  • Challenge in Asia
  • New York Society Recalls Past in Gibson Girl Ball
  • Air Force Holes Maneuvers With Live Bombs

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Ana Pauker by Hal Lehrman

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Caribean Winter – Photographs for LIFE by Eliot Elisofon

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • The Keedoozle

    • THEATER:

  • Charles Boyer on Broadway

    • SPORTS:

  • Easy Ed Macauley of St. Louis – Includes full-page color photo showing Macauley, full-length, slam dunking

    • MOVIES:

  • The Paleface starring Bob Hope and Jane Russell

    • SCIENCE:

  • Ladybugs Eat Mealy Bugs

    • POETRY:

  • Robert Burns

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: These Babies Were Born to Famous People in 1949

    • 1939-02-13 Life Magazine Contents Page for February 13, 1939

    1939/02/13 — Cover featuring Norma Shearer is credited to MGM

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • Senators Tattle on Foreign Policy and Roosevelt Denies All

  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • Chicago’s Biggest Blizzard in a Decade

  • Radiophotos from Germany, Spain and Chile
  • Crew Is Saved from Ship That Split in Two in Mid-Atlantic
  • America’s Best Housing Minds Meet at Yale-LIFE Conference

  • $2.50 a Week Houses Rise on $1 Lots in Fort Wayne
  • A Camera Gets Into the Berlin People’s Court
  • Australia’s Forest Fires Burn Out a Country Home
  • The Strange Case of the Portland Grave Robberies

    • THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • The Philippines – America’s Far Eastern Frontier Contains 7091 Problem Islands

    • ART:

  • Golden Gate Gets Best Work of 350 U.S. Artists
  • …And $20,000,000 Worth of Italian Treasures

    • SPORTS:

  • Polo Ponies Are Trained on the Texas Prairies

    • MOVIE:

  • Idiot’s Delight starring Norma Shearer and Clark Gable

    • THEATER:

  • Four Youthful Actresses Give Parlor Shows
  • Maurice Evans Makes Up to Play Falstaff

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Live Model and Her Dummy Double Defy Public to Tell Them Apart

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures — Lincoln in English Cartoons
  • LIFE Goes to a Party — With the DeMolays of Bethlehem, PA
  • Pictures to the Editors
  • Full page ad includes large black & white photo of Mickey Rooney as Huckleberry Finn

    • 1949-03-14 Life Magazine Contents Page for March 14, 1949

    1949/03/14 — Cover photograph featuring Dorothy McGuire ‘s Baby is credited to John Swope.

    Contents of this issue are as follows:
    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • Molotov Mystery Has Everyone Guessing – Did He Get Fired or Promoted?
  • The Fox Loses First Round in Parliament
  • “The Lady” Flies Nonstop Around World
  • A U.S. Negro Makes Peace Holy Land – Ralph Bunche

    • Editorials:

  • Joe Louis, Promoter
  • The Negro Problem
  • German Billboards Are Balm to Lonely Hearts
  • Heir of Columbus Is Married

    • ARTICLES:

  • The War Memoirs of Winston Churchill – Volume 2, Part 6
  • “A Southern Salutation” by Sam Jones, Ex-Governor of Louisiana

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • The Southwest

    • MOVIES:

  • The Movies of 1948
  • Rhonda Fleming

    • SPORTS:

  • Dick Button & Co.

    • MEDICINE:

  • Blue Baby Research

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Pre-Fab Living Room

    • ENTERTAINMENT:

  • Ballet to Nightclub

    • BUSINESS:

  • The Box Top Industry

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Actress’s New Baby Puts on Great Show
  • People
  • LIFE Goes to a Texas A&M Party
  • Bell Telephone ad features color illustration by Norman Rockwell
  • Color ad for Chesterfield Cigarettes features Linda Darnell

    • 1949-01-17 Life Magazine Contents Page for January 17, 1949

    1949/01/17 — Cover photograph featuring Resort Fashions is credited to Leonard McCombe.

    Contents of this issue are as follows:
    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • Storms Spread Death Through Midwest
  • Democrats Take Over New Congress
  • Panicky Shanghai Lines Up for Gold

    • Editorials:

  • “‘T Ain’t So”
  • Immoral Profits
  • State Department Gets a New Boss
  • Communists Arrest Hungarian Cardinal
  • Four-Year-Old Officiates at Wedding

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • What Happened to Mussolini’s Millions by Edmund L. Palmieri and John Kobler

    • PICTORIAL ESSAY:

  • Rocket to the Moon – Man May Travel to Earth’s Satellite Within 25 Years

    • MOVIES:

  • “Live Today for Tomorrow”

    • PEOPLE:

  • The Impeccable Blandford
  • Liberty Hyde Bailey

    • SCIENCE:

  • Trained Minnows

    • FASHION:

  • Resort Clothes

    • THEATER:

  • “Anne of a Thousand Days”

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Woman Gets $1,000 for Keeping Quiet One Week
  • LIFE Spends New Year’s Eve in Hollywood
  • Miscellany: It Ain’t Hay

    • 1939-12-18 Life Magazine Contents Page for December 18, 1939

    1939/12/18 — Cover featuring Canadian General Andrew McNaughton is credited to John Phillips

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • German Aerial Cameras Spy Out the Military Secrets of Britain
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • Isador Lubin Warns Monopoly Committee of High War Prices
  • Swedes Dig Fast While Orpheus Sings in Hall
  • Spanish Fascists Rebury Their Martyr with Kings
  • 60,000 Clevelanders Eat Short Rations as Ohio Relief Funds Fail
  • Communist Unpopularity Hits Record Low in Incidents on West Coast

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Canada at War – U.S. Neighbor Girds for Action

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • David O. Selznick – The Man Who Made “Gone With the Wind”

    • MUSIC:

  • Swing Loses Lead Among Best Selling Records

    • SCIENCE:

  • The Eye – Mankind’s Efficiency Depends On Its Most Precious Sense

    • SPORTS:

  • Porpoises Leap and Tumble in Gulf Stream
  • Little Wisconsin Town Produces Most Famous Pro Football Team – About the Green Bay Packers

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Knitting “Comfort Requirements” for British Fighters
  • Toys of War and Peace – Children Choose Them to Mimic Parents

    • MOVIES:

  • “The Light That Failed” featuring Ronald Colman and Ida Lupino
  • Linda Darnell Becomes a Star at 16

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures — These Are From Mara Hari ‘s Scrapbook
  • LIFE Calls on Patricia Prochnik, Diplomatic Debutante
  • Pictures to the Editors

    • 1938-10-03 Life Magazine Contents Page for October 3, 1938

    1938/10/03 — Cover featuring Czech Soldier is credited to Margaret Bourke-White

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:
    Threat of War:

  • Inside the Maginot Line
  • Outside the Siegfried Line
  • The Changing Map of Europe
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • War or Peace: Chamberlain Flies to Hitler
  • Girls Color Legion’s Los Angeles Convention
  • Hurricane Sweeps Long Island and New England
  • The First LIFE House Starts Up

    • THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Negroes – The U.S. Also Has a Minority Problem — 11 pages packed with photos

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • The Rise and Decline of Benito Mussolini by G.A. Borgese

    • MOVIES:

  • “That Certain Age”
  • … and Deanna Durbin Devotees in Action

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Taxi Exercises for Busy Girls

    • SPORTS:

  • Artist Brodie Reports on the Pennant-Winning Yankees

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures — Football Foolishness
  • LIFE Goes to a Party With the Windsors on the Riviera
  • Pictures to the Editors

    • 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

    • 1938-06-13 Life Magazine Contents Page for June 13, 1938

    1938/06/13 — Cover featuring Gertrude Lawrence is credited to Peter Stackpole

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • America’s National Crime – The Cash and Levine Kidnappings
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World

  • PEP – A Texas Graduation
  • Mexican Rebels Wreck Trains and Make Trouble
  • The “Acadia’ Sinks the “Mandalay”
  • A Law Professor Retires
  • A Singer Comes Home – Marian Anderson
  • Lightning Kills Two on Golf Course
  • LIFE Looks Back: The Message to Garcia

    • Pattern of War:

  • Italy’s Show for Hitler
  • Czech Gun Factory
  • Skoda Skills
  • Babies – Two Famous Members of the Class of 1938

    • THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Dogs – $1,500,000 Worth of Them at America’s Biggest Show

    • ART:

  • 57th Street
  • …and the Spring Shows Therein
  • Jon Corbino – A New England Rubens

    • THEATER:

  • Gertrude Lawrence – A Great Actress At Home

    • SPORT:

  • The University of North Carolina Plays Championship Tennis

    • SCIENCE:

  • Bronchoscopist Jackson
  • …and What He Takes from his Patients

    • MOVIES:

  • “Blockade” – The Spanish War Goes On the Screen

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures — Curley, the Sea Lion
  • LIFE Goes to a Party with the Rancheros of California
  • Pictures to the Editors
  • Full-page Jantzen swimsuit ad featuring male and female figures illustrated by George Petty

    • 1938-11-14 Life Magazine Contents Page for November 14, 1938

    1938/11/14 — Cover featuring Brenda Diana Duff Frazier is credited to ACME

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • The First Human Picture Report on the Japanese Man Conquering China
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • Picture of the Week: A Gould Bows to Society
  • Heart’s Death Graphed – “Newsreel” Wong – Plastic Surgery
  • Seabiscuit Wins the Race of the Century – Just two-thirds of a page filled with 2 photos, 1 of Seabiscuit the other of Rakaish and a small diagram of the race action between Seabiscuit and War Admiral
  • France Tends Her Eternal Flame
  • Germany Shows Off Her Siegfried Line
  • Earl Carroll Picks Pretty Girls for a Show
  • 12,000 Kansas City Schoolchildren Celebrate Halloween
  • World’s Biggest Pig

    • THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Auomobiles – America’s Favorite Industry on Parade – 11 pages, 4 in color
  • 1939 License Plates

    • SPORTS:

  • Pittsburgh Football

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Debutants at the Velvet Ball

    • MUSIC:

  • Moriz Rosenthal Works Out for His Golden Jubilee

    • MOVIES:

  • The Young in Heart starring Janet Gaynor and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

    • THEATER:

  • Terror Plays Are Orson Welles ‘s Meat

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures — This Terror Has Box Office
  • LIFE Goes to a Kids’ Football Game
  • Pictures to the Editors

    • 1939-03-06 Life Magazine Contents March 6 1939

    1939/03/06 — Cover photograph featuring Tallulah Bankhead is credited to Vandamm Studios

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • Golden Gate Exposition Opens with Wild West Wallop
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • The King of Egypt’s Sister to Marry the Shah of Iran’s Son
  • Harry Hopkins Boom for President Starts in Native Iowa
  • Pope Pius is Buried in St. Peter’s
  • New York Nazis Beat Up Jew at Bund Meeting
  • “Mein Kampf” Is Published in Full for U.S. Readers
  • British Destroyer Is Repaired at Gibralter
  • German Battleship Is Launched at Hmaburg

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Fascism in America – Like Communism It Masquerades as Americanism – 7 pages

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Heywood Broun

    • SCIENCE:

  • Camelliams: The South’s Most Aristocratic Bloom Is Yankee Favorite
  • Rats Are Driven Crazy by Insoluable Problems

    • SPORTS:

  • Florida Gives Disbarred Jockey a Second Chance

    • THEATER:

  • “The Little Foxes” – Tallulah Bankhead Has Her First U.S. Hit

    • MOVIES:

  • “Cafe Society” with Madeleine Carroll and Fred MacMurray
  • The First Actress of the Screen Dons a Wig and Plays an Empress – Photo of Bette Davis in “Juarez”

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Victorians Loved Rogers Sculpture
  • LIFE Covers the Miami Waterfront
  • Pictures to the Editors
  • Color ad featuring Shirley Temple in The Little Princess is on the inside front cover
  • Full-page black & white ad with huge image of Charles Boyer and Irene Dunne in “Love Affair”

    • 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

    • 1938-04-18 Life Magazine Contents April 18 1938

    1938/04/18 — Cover photograph featuring Paulette Goddard is by Martin Munkacsi

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • The Congress of the U.S. to the President of the U.S.: “No!”
  • Speaking of Dictators – 2 pages of photos featuring Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin in poses that are similar to poses Roosevelt was photographed in
  • Business: Steel, Spinach, Car, Farm
  • Much Music Is Made in St. Louis
  • French Labor Gets a Charter
  • Battleship Wins Grand National
  • The Austrians Learn how to do the Nazi Salute
  • Japan Sleeps at Feet of China’s Gods
  • An Indian Princeling Takes up the Koran
  • Fannie Brice – A Portrait of Billy Rose’s “Mona Lisa”
  • Winter Wings Over the Sierra Nevada
  • TaxCENTinels Corner Troy’s Pennies
  • English Marks for Singers and Strikers

    • THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • The Jews – Their Passover, Their History and Their Problems – 10 pages

    • MOVIES:

  • “The Flower of Flatbush” (Sigrid Gurie) Loves Gary Cooper in “Marco Polo”

    • SCIENCE:

  • The Super Chief – Isometric Views of Santa Fe’s Fastest Train

    • FASHIONS:

  • Spring Problem – Hips

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Bachrach Beauties
  • People
  • LIFE Goes to a Party With a Brazilian Cocoa King
  • Pictures to the Editors
  • Full-page ad on the inside front cover for “In Old Chicago” featuring Tyrone Power, Alice Faye and Don Ameche

    • 1956-07-30 Life Magazine Contents July 30 1956

    1956/07/30 — Cover features Pier Angeli and is credited to Philippe Halsman

    Contents of this issue are as follows:
    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • The Big Top Bows Out Forever as Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey folks its tents for the last time
  • A Look at the World’s Week
  • The Trial of a Marine Sergeant Becomes A Trial for the Corps and Its Methods
  • A Tranquil Grave for the Grand Canyon Crash Dead
  • Evicted Indian Princess of Patiala Picket to Get Their Palace Back

    • EDITORIAL:

  • The Eisenhower Program: How It Fares

    • ARTICLE:

  • Victory at Buena Vista – Part 2 of “My Confession” the Mexican War Memoirs of Soldier-Artist Samuel E. Chamberlain

    PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • The Beautiful Flowering of Emporia, Kansas – The City Reflects a Flourishing U.S. Hobby – Photographed for LIFE by Myron Davis

    • RELIGION:

  • Noble Drama at Notre Dame – Medieval Passion Play is a Paris Hit

    • MOVIES:

  • A Fine Part for Pier Angeli – The Gentle Actress Helps a Rough Film

    • SPORTS:
    Midsummer Madness – Baseball Suffers from a Wacky Outburst of Tempers

    ART:

  • A Wire Sun’s Golden Rising – Celestial Sculpture Goes on View in Metropolitan Museum

    • PARTY:

  • A Sentimental Send-Off for Senator George

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Speaking of Pictures: Cameralike Device Sees a Purple Cow
  • Letters to the Editors
  • Sequel: Stone Age Baby – A “Tarpan” Colt Is Born in a Chicago Zoo
  • Miscellany: Distress Over a Downfall

    • 1941-02-10 Life Magazine Contents February 10 1941

    1941/02/10 — Cover photograph featuring New British Ambassador Lord Halifax is credited to Time, Inc.

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • Mussolini Takes a Bad Licking in Africa – 7 pages
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • American Bombers Take off for Britain from Newfoundland Base
  • Hearst’s Fabulous Art Goes at Bargain Prices
  • Lana Turner and Deanna Durbin Are Belles of President’s Birthday Ball – 2 pages includes full page shot of Durbin dancing with William Knudsen
  • Bombed London Railway Is Remade as Good as New in Four Hours
  • Socialite Fishermen Relax at Quarterdeck Club on Biscayne Bay
  • Inside Wartime Germany – Part 2 by William L. Shirer

    • CLOSE-UP

  • Lord Halifax by Carl Joachim Friedrich

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • LIFE Shows How to Fire a 75-mm. Field Gun – 8 pages

    • SCIENCE:

  • Earthquakes – Earth’s Crust & Ice Balls Break in Same Pattern

    • ART:

  • Spindletop – Great Texas Oil Gusher is Painted for LIFE by Alexandre Hogue

    • EDUCATION:

  • Ynching Is No. 1 Christian University in China

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • LIFE’s Pictures: An Index
  • LIFE’s Reports
  • Speaking of Pictures: Book Match Covers
  • LIFE Goes to a Hexing Party
  • Pictures to the Editors

    • 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

    • 1941-06-02 Life Magazine Contents June 2 1941

    1941/06/02 — Cover photograph featuring Sunday School is credited to Alfred Eisenstaedt

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • U.S. Steps Up Campaign to Combat Axis in Latin America
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • Hess Stands by Fuhrer in Reichstag Six Days Before Deserting Company
  • Nazis Wreck Great Monuments of English Culture – 4 pages of photos including full-page Big Ben
  • New Yorkers Jame Rally for U.S. Service Men’s Clubs
  • LIFE and Fortune Men Among Passengers Rescued as Germans Sink “Zamzam”

  • Mexican Maneuvers Reveal Equipment Deficiencies
  • Man-Made Lakes and Rivers Turn 20,000,000 U.S. Acres into Bloom
  • New York Art Directors Club Picks “Most Beautiful Legs”

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Sunday School Fights for God & Country with Modern Methods

    • ARTICLE:

  • Belgium Is Hungry by John Cudahy

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Exercises Aid Sleep

    • NATURAL HISTORY:

  • World’s Smallest Hippopotamus Arrives in U.S.

    • ART:

  • Sculptor Robert Laurent

    • SPORTS:

  • Satchel Paige – Negro Ballplayer, Is Great Pitcher – Covers 3 pages though excluding ads fills 2 total, with 9 photos of Paige including 3 in uniform with the New York Black Yankees, a shot at the barber shop, one shooting pool, one playing piano, etc.

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: How to Shoot in a Western
  • LIFE’s Reports: New Dealers vs. Dollar-a-Year Man
  • LIFE Visits the Statue of Liberty
  • Pictures to the Editors
  • Camel Cigarettes ad on back cover features golf legend Ben Hogan

    • 1941-03-03 Life Magazine Contents March 3 1941

    1941/03/03 — Cover photograph featuring Model and Manikin is credited to Walter Sanders

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • Roosevelt’s New Deal Sends an Ambassador to Britain’s New Dealers
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • A Frenchman Sheds Tears of Grief As His Country’s Flags Are Exiled to Africa
  • Greeks Push on in Albania
  • British Capture Tobruch
  • Fort Sill Welcomes an Officer and His Bride
  • Churchill’s Daughter Makes Maiden Speech
  • Income Tax: 8,000,000 Americans File First Returns

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • General Sir Archibald Percival Wavell by Harry Zinder

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Australia’s War Effort Forces Continent to Grow Up Industrially

    • BOOKS:

  • “Out of the Night” — Part 2 by Jan Valtin

    • MEDICINE:

  • Pain

    • ART:

  • Diego Rivera ‘s New Mural Depicts Pan-American Unity – includes 4 full pages of color reproductions in the center of the issue

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Model Is Cast in Plaster to Make Manikin Mold

    • MOVIES:

  • Veronica Lake – 3 pages though ads make it more like 2 pages does include a full-page black & white photo of lake, plus 5 other shots of Lake from the time of “I Wanted Wings”
  • SPORTS:
  • Table Tennis

    • NIGHT CLUB:

  • New York Clubs Offer Roughhouse & Satire

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Blizzard Sweeps Donner Pass
  • LIFE’s Reports
  • LIFE’s Pictures: An Index
  • LIFE Goes to an Atzor Party
  • Pictures to the Editors
  • Full-page ad for Orson Welles in “Citizen Kane” (“It’s Terrific!”)
  • Pan American Coffee Bureau full-page color ad includes illustration b J.C. Leyendecker

    • 1942-12-07 Life Magazine Contents December 7 1942

    1942/12/07 — Cover photograph featuring Marine Ace Captain John L. Smith is credited to Nelson Morris

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • The Allies Launch World Offensive
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • Lily Pons Carries Fighting French Flag in “Daughter of the Regiment”
  • Captain Rickenbacker and Crew Recuperate on Pacific Isle
  • The Boston Holocaust
  • Prison War Workers Build Ships & Produce War Goods
  • Deaf People Sing National Anthem at Victory Dance

    • ARTICLES:

  • Report from Tokyo by Joseph C. Grew
  • Captain Smith and HIs Fighting 223 by Richard Wilcox

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • War Metals

    • MOVIES:

  • Preston Sturges’ “Palm Beach Story” starring Claudette Colbert

    • NAVY:

  • Torpedo Bomber Planes Are Scourge of Ships

    • NIGHT CLUB:

  • Copacabana Girls Are Among Broadway’s Loveliest (includes Lucille Bremer)

    • ART:

  • Edward Laning Paints Santa Fe Railway at War

    • BOOKS:

  • “New Yorker” Arts Fills New Cartoon Albums – Includes 2 pages each of reproductions of Gluyas Williams and Charles Addams cartoons
  • PRESS:
  • LIFE Presents the Great OWI Picture Pulp Plot

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: British Strip-Tease Tells How to Save Fuel
  • LIFE’s Reports: Fighting Day at an Airdrome by Roy Alexander
  • LIFE Visits the Gould Mansion
  • Pictures to the Editors

    • 1945-10-08 Life Magazine Contents October 8 1945

    1945/10/08 — Cover photograph featuring General Robert Eichelberger is credited to the U.S. Navy

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • The Tokyo Express to Hiroshima – Photographs by J.R. Eyerman
  • Editorial: Urgent Business
  • “Paddy” Devereux Greets His Father
  • The “Europa” Returns
  • Mass Murderess of Belsen – Woman leader of Nazi Guards
  • Baseball Season Ends in Argument

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • J. Arthur Rank by Francis Sill Wickware

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • The Waldorf-Astoria – 8 pages

    • RELIGION:

  • Jewish New Year in Berlin

    • THEATER:

  • Bambi Lynn of Brooklyn Dances on Broadway

    • ART:

  • The Pacific War – American Artists Record the Battles Across the Big Ocean

    • EDUCATION:

  • Educating Hitler Youth – Americans teaching them Democracy

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Fur Hats

    • MOVIES:

  • “The House on 92nd Street”

    • SCIENCE:

  • Texas Raises First U.S. Silk

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Frank Lloyd Wright ‘s New Art Museum
  • LIFE’s Reports: How the World Didn’t End by Claude Stanush
  • LIFE Goes to a Grape Crush
  • Miscellany: Corporal Rahaman’s Pay
  • Full-page color ad for Pan-Cake Make-Up from Max Factor Hollywood features a large color image of Judy Garland promoting “The Harvey Girls”

    • 1939-10-09 Life Magazine Contents October 9 1939

    1939/10/09 — Cover photograph featuring Kids Football is credited to Alfred Eisenstaedt

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • New War Fails to Panic Veterans of Old One
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • Queen Elizabeth Looks Over London’s Air-Raid Precautions
  • Germany and Britain Present Conflicting Evidence on Plane vs. Battleship
  • Two British Flying Boats Rescue Crew of Torpedoed Tramp Steamer
  • Heroic Polish Defense of Westerplatte Ends as nazi Mop-up of Poland Begins
  • How the Germans Overran Poland in Four Weeks

    • CLOSE-UP

  • Edouard Daladier

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • The Low Countries – Belgium and The Netherlands Are ready to Right with Guns and Floods

    • MOVIES:

  • “Hollywood Calvalcade”

    • SPORTS:

  • Best Young Baseballers are Owned by Yankee Farm System

    • ART:

  • A Great Newspaper Builds a Great Art Museum – The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery

    • SCIENCE:

  • Technicians Design Model Rockets Hoping for Transatlantic Flight

    • RELIGION:

  • Four-year-old boy becomes Dalai Lama of Tibet

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Oldtime Country Square Dancing Returns to Fashion in Big Cities
  • Bunchy Necklaces Are Worn to Balance Bustles

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Marlene Dietrich Hits a New High in Movie Roughhouse
  • People
  • LIFE Goes to a Kids’ Football Game
  • Pictures to the Editors

    • 1954-08-30 Life Magazine Contents August 30 1954

    1954/08/30 — Cover photograph featuring Anna Maria Alberghetti is credited to Loomis Dean

    Contents of this issue are as follows:
    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • World Council Works for Church Unity
  • Store Hires Hostesses During Pilot Strike
  • Quiet Boys … And Horror in Brooklyn
  • A Man Lives to See Another Evening Sun Go Down
  • Texas Chooses Up for a Runoff
  • De Gasperi Dies in Mountains He Loved
  • Goan Invasion Yeilds to Faith, Firmness
  • Life on the Newsfronts of the World

    • EDITORIALS:

  • An Amusing Summer Fantasy
  • Fantastic Summer Realities

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS:

  • 100 Years of Yachting – 8 pages

    • ARTICLE:

  • The Red Specter That haunts Italy by Emmet John Hughes

    • ANIMALS:

  • Horned Steed

    • SCIENCE:

  • A New Amphibious Vehicle, the Rhino

    • SPORTS:

  • 103 Ties with 102 on Water Skies

    • MOVIES:

  • Many Sided Jack Webb

    • MUSIC:

  • Anna Maria and Family, Happy in the Rain (cover story)

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Mass Do-It-Yourself Project

    • DANCE:

  • Contortion Recreates Kafka ‘s Cockroach

    • BUSINESS:

  • Northland, Detroit’s Modern Bazaar

    • FASHION:

  • Fall’s Bumper Crop of Jumpers

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Speaking of Pictures: Australian Cartoonist Thinks Up New Uses for Statues
  • Letters to the Editors
  • LIFE’s Visit: Boys Rule the Roost on Camp’s Last Day
  • Miscellany: Whash Uff, Doc?