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1941-12-22 Life Magazine Contents

1941/12/22 — This is the first issue of LIFE to hit the press after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. As such it is loaded with historic photos and artistic renditions of that time in history. Complete contents beginning with the front cover follow:

Cover photograph featuring American Flag is credited to George A. Douglas

Contents of this issue are as follows:

“The Day of Wrath” by Henry R. Luce

AMERICA GOES TO WAR:

  • “Remember Pearl Harbor”
  • Men to Arms
  • War Declared
  • Air Alerts and Blackouts
  • Killed in Action
  • U.S. Seizes “Normandie”

    • THE DEFENDERS OF THE PHILIPPINES

    WORLDWIDE WAR:

  • Snow, Mud and Cold Stop Nazi Advance in Russia
  • The Sinking of the “Ark Royal”
  • Nazis Withdraw Westward in Libya

    • PACIFIC BATTLEFIELD:

  • Maps of the Pacific

  • Japanese Land in Malaysa
  • “Repulse” and “Prince of Wales” go down off Malay Coast
  • Jungle Helps Protect Singapore

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • The Pacific Ocean

    • PERSONAL EXPERIENCES:

  • Transport to Hawaii by Richard Wilcox
  • We Shoot Down the First Japs by Sergeants Joe Smith and Paul Womack

    • ART:

  • Scholars at Peking University Makes Christmas Portfolio for LIFE

    • BOOKS:

  • “The Great Pacific War” by Hector Bywater

    • HANDBOOK FOR AMERICANS:

  • How to Identify Japanese Planes
  • How to Tell Japs from Chinese

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Cartoons on Outbreak of War
  • LIFE Goes to a Party at V.M.I.
  • Pictures to the Editors

    • 1941-12-29 Life Magazine Contents

    1941/12/29 — Cover featuring US Aerial Gunner is credited to Eliot Elisofon

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • First Pictures of Jap Onslaught Show Death & Destruction at Pearl Harbor
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • Southern California Company Builds Air-Raid Shelter in Open Lot
  • Army Rolls Across US to Secret Destinations
  • FBI Smashes Spy Gang
  • Secretary Knox Reports on Hawaii

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Ensign Weems Becomes Officer in Navy at War

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • US Marines Stand Guard on Island Outposts

    • WORLD MAP:

  • Axis Thrusts Are Aimed at Oil

    • PERSONAL EXPERIENCES:

  • “Buzz” Wagner, America’s First Ace, Tells How He Downed Jap Planes

    • HANDBOOK FOR AMERICANS:

  • Anatomy of Bombs

    • ART:

  • Simka Simkhovitch

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: How US Went to War Last Time
  • LIFE Goes to a Christmas Party with Dionne Quintuplets
  • Pictures to the Editors
  • Camel Cigarettes ad on the back cover

    • 1942-01-05 Life Magazine Contents

    1942/01/05 — Cover featuring “Wanted: 50,000 Nurses” is credited to Eliot Elisofon

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:
    War in the Pacific

  • First War Pictures in Pacific by Bob Landry
  • “The First Ten Days of the War at Sea” by Richard Wilcox
  • Clean-up Crews at Pearl Harbor Speed Refitting and Repair
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • Prime Minister Churchill Addresses US Congress
  • War in the Far East Hinges on Manila and on Singapore

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Washington Goes to War by Milton Mayer

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Japan’s Industries Are All Geared to War

    • HANDBOOK FOR AMERICANS:

  • Aides Relieve Nursing Shortage

    • NATURE:

  • The Woods in Winter

    • BOOKS:

  • “Lincoln, His Life in Photographs” by Stefan Lorant – includes 5 nearly full-page photos of Lincoln, year-by-year, 1860-1865 (except ’62), with captions at bottom

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: These People’s Lives Were Touched by LIFE in 1941
  • LIFE Goes Riding on a Navy Recruiting Train
  • Pictures to the Editors

    • Notable advertising includes: 2-page ad for Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck in classic Ball of Fire, Mimeograph duplicator ad “It goes where the Navy goes” illustrated by Norman Price, and a Lucky Strikes ad on the back cover. NOTE: An * denotes ad is smaller than a full-page.

    1942-01-12 Life Magazine Contents

    1942/01/12 — Cover featuring “Pacific Coast Defense” is credited to Peter Stackpole

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

  • Russian Courage and Cold Route Nazis
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • Baby Giant Panda Makes Debut at Bronx Zoo
  • Americans Greet 1942
  • Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt Weds Pasquale di Cicco

    • ARTICLES:

  • Jap Cunning and British Overconfidence Endanger Singapore by Cecil Brown
  • A Last Look at Europe by Henry J. Taylor

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS:

  • Rockefeller Center
  • Pacific Coast Defense

    • THEATER:

  • Betty Bruce Wins Triumph with Tapping Toes

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • U.S. Sets Macaroni and Spaghetti Standards

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Smokeout
  • LIFE Goes to a Wedding in the Soong Family
  • Pictures to the Editors

    • Notable advertising includes: Marion Hutton for Chesterfield Cigarettes, half-page ad with Olivia de Havilland for Royal Crown Cola*, Coca-Cola ad on back cover titled “Hello, I’m Coca Cola known, too, as Coke”. NOTE: An * denotes ad is smaller than a full-page.

    1942-01-19 Life Magazine Contents

    1942/01/19 — Cover photograph featuring North Atlantic Patrol is credited to Eliot Elisofon

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

  • President Calls for Planes, Tanks, Billions & Worldwide A.E.F.

  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • Brooklyn Navy Yard Workers Volunteer for Service at Pearl Harbor
  • Winston Churchill Zips His Zipper Suit for Photographers
  • British Planes Bomb German Navy at Brest
  • First Big U.S. Blizzard Rips Through Censorship
  • Hollywood Girds for War in Flurry of Air-Raid Rehearsals
  • War in Pacific Ends Tire Sales to U.S. Civilians

    • ARTICLES:

  • North Atlantic Patrol by Griffith Bailey Coale
  • Desert Tank Fighting by Alan Moorehead

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Alaska – U.S. Frontier Waits for War

    • SPORTS:

  • Chicago Bears Halt to Hear National Anthem
  • …C.C.N.Y. Scores a Dramatic Basket

    • THEATER:

  • The Ballet – New Hit and Fine Pictures Mark Good Dance Year

    • ART:

  • Baltimore Show Reviews Curious Case of Mary Cassatt

    • MOVIES:

  • “Louisiana Purchase”

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: The Philippines, 1898
  • LIFE Goes to a Swing Shift Dance
  • Pictures to the Editors

    • 1942-01-26 Life Magazine Contents

    1942/01/26 — Cover featuring “This Above All” is credited to David Scherman

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • British Commandos Raid Hitler’s Europe
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • Jane Russell Dramatizes Navy’s “Serve With Silence” Campaign (1-page, large photo)
  • Joe Louis Fights for the U.S. (1-page, 2 photos, 1 in uniform)
  • Carole Lombard Dies in Crash After Aiding U.S. (1-page, one large photo of Lombard before her last audience)
  • Dutch in Indies Can Outwit Japs
  • War Production: Donald Nelson Gets World’s Biggest Single Job
  • Casey Jones: Historians Mark His Wreck

    • ARTICLES:

  • War in Iran: British Join Russian Allies by Allan A. Michie
  • Eugene Grace by Noel F. Busch

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • “This Above All”: A War Novel in Pictures — 10 pages with 32 photos varying in size up to full-page

    • MOVIES:

  • “Sullivan’s Travels” starring Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake — 4pages, tons of pics!

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Outdoor Girls Dress Warmly for Winter

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: A Rare Look at Roosevelt’s Youth
  • LIFE Goes Boar Hunting in the Tennessee Woods
  • Pictures to the Editors

    • Notable advertising includes: half-page ad “Veronica Lake Is on the Take” for Sullivan’s Travels*, Four Roses Whiskey ad with color illustration by John Falter, full-page ad for Schenley’s Cream of Kentucky Bourbon illustrated by Norman Rockwell, and a Camel Cigarettes ad on the back cover. NOTE: An * denotes ad is smaller than a full-page.

    1942-02-09 Life Magazine Contents

    1942/02/09 — Cover featuring “Versailles Chorus” is credited to Charles Steinheimer

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

  • The Americas Declare Their Unity at Rio
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • British Who Died at Tobruk Are Buried on Their Battlefield
  • Anti-Axis World Wishes President Well on 60th Birthday
  • The Sea Battle of Makassar Strait
  • The Battle of Bataan
  • Shut up, America: New Posters Warn Against Gossip
  • The Ladies of the House of Orange Smile in Exile
  • Torpedo Boasts Strike in the Pacific
  • Loyal U.S. Japs Teach Army Trainees Jujitsu
  • Night Clubs Enjoy Wartime Boom

    • ARTICLES:

  • King Peter of Yugoslavia at Cambridge by Lael Laird
  • Nazi-Ruled Italy Hates This War by S.K.

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Australia: Imperiled Continent Resembles the U.S.

    • MOVIES:

  • “Kings Row”

    • ART:

  • “Our Life in the Service”: New Soldier Art

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Mexican Cartoons Dynamite the Axis
  • LIFE’s Reports: Portrait of a Nazi Soldier by Alan Moorehead
  • LIFE Goes to a Party for Ambassador and Mme. Litvinov
  • Pictures to the Editors

    • Notable advertising includes: Lois January for Chesterfield Cigarettes, 2 quarter-page ads for Sullivan’s Travels starring Veronica Lake*, color ad for Life by Formfit. NOTE: An * denotes ad is smaller than a full-page.

    1942-02-16 Life Magazine Contents

    1942/02/16 — Cover featuring “Singer and Soldier” featuring Shirley Lloyd with Private First Class David S. Ingall of Plymouth, MI is credited to William C. Shrout

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • U.S. Auto Plants Are Cleared for War
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • Pearl Harbor Widows Report for Work at Aircraft Factory
  • Atlanta Stages Bicycle Parade to Boost Rubber Conservation
  • Movie Stars Offer Blood as Red Cross Starts Drive — photo shows Carole Landis looking on as Cecil B. DeMille gives blood
  • Pictures of Pearl Harbor Disaster Show Its Hell
  • Army Sweethearts Sing and Broadcast for Troops
  • The Homestead Entertains Jap Diplomats as Patriotic Duty

    • ARTICLES:

  • America’s War and America’s Peace by Henry R. Luce

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • U.S. Corps of Engineers

    • ROLL OF HONOR:

  • War Breeds Heroes in U.S. Forces
  • America’s Medals of Honor and Battle Flags

    • MOVIES:

  • “Woman of the Year” starring Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy

    • ART:

  • Skeezix is 21

    • MEDICINE:

  • Sutures Show Fine Art of Knots and Stitches

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Masked Girl Runs Emotional Gamut
  • LIFE’s Report: Care of the Wounded on the Bataan Front
  • LIFE Goes on a Skiing Weekend at Timberline Lodge
  • Pictures to the Editors

    • Notable advertising includes: full-page ad featuring Ronald Reagan and Ann Sheridan in King’s Row, Texaco ad illustrated by Gluyas Williams, DeBeers Consolidated ad with color illustration by Miguel Covarrubias, half-page ad for Julep Cigarettes asks “Do War Nerves Make you Smoke Too Much? — Switch to Juleps and smoke all you want!”*, half-page ad for Pabst Blue Ribbon illustrated by O. Soglow*, , and a Coca-Cola ad on the back cover. NOTE: An * denotes ad is smaller than a full-page.

    1942-02-23 Life Magazine Contents

    1942/02/23 — Cover featuring “Guns for Merchantmen” is credited to George Strock

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

  • An Era of Empire Ends at Singapore
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • U.S. Goes on War Time
  • U.S. Navy Raids Gilbert and Marshall Islands
  • Germans Impose Mass Death on Red Prisoners and Poles
  • “Normandie” Burns at Her New York Pier
  • A.E.F. Arrives in Ireland
  • …U.S. Troops Set Up Housekeeping by Mary Welsh

    • ARTICLE:

  • The First Japanese Mission to America by Yanagawa Masakiyo

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS:

  • Broadway Theater Season with sections on MacBeth, Musical Comedies, and Porgy & Bess
  • Brooklyn Navy Yard

    • AVIATION:

  • Aerial Warfare Soars into the Stratosphere

    • ART:

  • Harry Wickey Sculptures Hell’s Kitchen

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Sears, Roebuck Shows Summer Styles at Ritz

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: LIFE’s Photo-Reporter Team Are Jap Prisoners
  • Roll of Honor
  • LIFE Goes Calling at Blenheim Palace
  • Pictures to the Editors

    • Notable advertising includes: Full-page color ad for “Mr. Bug Goes to Town”, Four Roses Whiskey ad illustrated by John Falter, Rise Stevens for Columbia Records, Texaco ad with color illustration by Albert Dorne. NOTE: An * denotes ad is smaller than a full-page.

    1942-03-02 Life Magazine Contents

    1942/03/02 — Cover featuring Ginger Rogers is credited to Bob Landry.

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:
    Now the U.S. Must Fight For Its Life

  • …Six Ways to Invade the U.S. — Pretty scary stuff featuring illustrations beginning with Japanese bombing Pearl Harbor and then the Japanese on Mt. Rainier, Japanese tank causing destruction on the streets of Southern California, Nazi planes bombing East Coast plants, a full page showing bombing of San Francisco highlighted by explosion of Golden Gate Bridge, and another full-page showing Germany destroying an East Coast Airport
  • …U.S. Raid on Jap Isles Shows Value of Offense
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • Douglas Aircraft Workers Hear Production Pep Talk
  • Binghamton’s Salvage Collection Sets Example for Country
  • Military Strategy Starts Brawl of Saloon Patriots
  • Allied vs. Axis Navies
  • Farmers Learn How to Milk Cows in a Blackout

    • ARTICLES:

  • Rear Guard in Luzon by Captain John Wheeler, USA
  • Chaing Kai-Shek by Theodore H. White

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Ginger Rogers — 10 pages packed with photos leading off with a full-page color pic

    • SPORTS:

  • Cornelius Warmerdam Breaks World Pole-Vault Record

    • ART:

  • Fireman’s Art: British Exhibit Tours USA

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Americans Turn Pension Grab into Big Joke
  • Roll of Honor
  • LIFE Goes to An Army Party
  • Pictures to the Editors

    • Notable advertising includes: full-page ad for Carole Lombard and Jack Benny in To Be Or Not To Be with announcement beginning “We announce the presentation of Carol Lombard’s last picture”, Mimeograph duplicator ad with large illustration “Sergeant, USMC Reading Orders” by Norman Price, and a Lucky Strikes ad on the back cover. NOTE: An * denotes ad is smaller than a full-page.

    1942-03-09 Life Magazine Contents

    1942/03/09 — Cover featuring “U.S. Barrage Balloon” is credited to J.R. Eyerman.

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

  • Japanese Carry War to California Coast
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • Joan Fontaine Receives Academy Award
  • Subs Get Another Tanker Off Atlantic Coast
  • Canadians Stage “Nazi” Invasion
  • John Barrymore Meets Daughter Diana on His 60th Birthday
  • Barrage Balloons Guard Sky Over Strategic Areas

    • ARTICLES:

  • Sir Stafford Cripps Answers Twenty Questions on Russia for LIFE
  • Rescue from Howland Island by Thomas Bederman

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS:

  • Maine in Winter
  • How to Shoot a Machine Gun

    • ART:

  • Texas Sees New Crop of Figure Paintings

    • MOVIES:

  • Carole Lombard’s Last Movie: “To Be Or Not to Be”

    • SPORTS:

  • Table Tennis: Louis Pagliaro Is Great Shot Retriever

    • ANIMALS:

  • Rules for Pet Care During Air Raids

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Florida’s Cypress Gardens
  • LIFE’s Reports: Shape of Women by Lilian Rixey
  • LIFE Goes on Tour with the Philadelphia Symphony
  • Pictures to the Editors

    • Notable advertising includes: Half-page featuring Jean Hersholt for Vaseline Hair Tonic*. NOTE: An * denotes ad is smaller than a full-page.

    1942-03-23 Life Magazine Contents

    1942/03/23 — Cover photograph featuring “How to Make Plane Models” is credited to Charles E. Steinheimer

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

  • U.S. Troops Find War in Australia
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • England’s Queen Mother Stands Sponsor for Newest Grandchild
  • Negro Pilots Get Wings at Tuskegee Institute – 2pages
  • Yards Rush New Ships and Plug Old Ones
  • Mementos from the Malayan Campaign
  • Stage and Screen Stars Help Entertain Soldiers
  • London Chimney Sweeps Look with Dismay on Week’s Soap Ration

    • ARTICLE:

  • An English Journalist Reports on America by William Hickey

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Tom Connally by Robert Coughlin

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Industrial Chemistry Meets Demands of War
  • Florida at War

    • SPORTS:

  • Brooklyn Dodgers Go to Havana for Spring Training – 2 full pages plus two more half-pages

    • MOVIES:

  • “The Invaders

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Homemade Hats

    • ART:

  • Abandoned Railroad Station Is Sculptor Louis Jonas’ Studio

    • EDUCATION:

  • High-School Students Build Plane Models

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Soldiers Cartoon Army Life
  • LIFE’s Reports: Exodus of the Brongs by Henry B. Cole
  • LIFE Goes to an Iceboating Championship
  • Pictures to the Editors
  • 2-page ad for Niblets Corn includes large, though less than full-page, Norman Rockwell illustration, “Boyhood Eating Thrill, 1898”

    • 1942-03-30 Life Magazine Contents

    1942/03/30 — Cover featuring Shirley Temple is credited to George Hurrell.

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • American Pilots in Burma Shoot Down 300 Jap Planes in 90 Days
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • Army Seizes 200,000 lbs. of Scrap Metal from Indiana Junk Dealer
  • U.S. Freighter Sinks U-Boat
  • British Smear Renault Tank Plant in War’s Top Air Raid
  • Big A.E.F. Reaches Australia
  • Hero-Hungry Nation Goes for MacArthur in Big Way
  • OCD Coordinators Keep Selves Fit While People Fume at Boondoggling

    • ARTICLES:

  • Farewell to Bataan by Melville Jacoby
  • Clipper to Africa by Clare Booth

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Submarine School Trains Men for Toughest Service

    • MOVIES:

  • “The Gold Rush” — Charlie Chaplin Revives his 1925 comedy with his own new comments

    • EDUCATION:

  • Children in Wartime

    • ART:

  • Gifted Peale Family Added Glory to U.S. Art

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Gardens for the U.S. at War
  • Wartime Junk jewelry Combines Non-Priority Stuff & Nonsense

    • ANIMALS:

  • Dalmations Get War Training in Boston

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Shirley Temple Grows Up — Temple at age 13
  • LIFE’s Reports: Alaska “Kodiak Bear” is Breezy Army Paper
  • Roll of Honor
  • LIFE Goes to Boris Karloff’s Party
  • Pictures to the Editors

    • Notable advertising includes: Color ad for Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book in technicolor, Mimeograph duplicator ad with illustration by Norman Price, full-page ad for Orson Welles’ The Magnificent Ambersons, Irene Dunne for Royal Crown Cola, and a Lucky Strikes ad on the back cover. NOTE: An * denotes ad is smaller than a full-page.

    1942-04-06 Life Magazine Contents

    1942/04/06 — Cover featuring “Bomber Task Force” is credited to Frank Scherschel.

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • West Coast Japs are Interned in Mountain Camp
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • High Commissioner Sayre Presents Jap Sword to President Roosevelt
  • Food Pours into France But Germans Snatch It
  • Famous Guns Are Salvaged for New U.S. Victory
  • Guerrillas on Oregon Coast Ready Guns for Invasion
  • West Virginia University Topples Favorites to Win basketball Tourney
  • Senator Langer Wins Over “Moral Turpitude” Charge

    • ARTICLE:

  • Three Men on a Raft by Harold F. Dixon

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Bomber Task Force

    • THEATER:

  • “The Moon is Down” based on John Steinbeck story

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Small Fry Clothes — Steig Cartoons Inspire New Outfits for Children

    • SCIENCE:

  • Industrial Accidents Jump in Wartime

    • ART:

  • Dutch Artist Designs Windows for U.S. Church
  • U.S. Government War Art

    • MOVIES:

  • Janet Blair is New Star

    • NATIONAL DEFENSE:

  • Army’s Iron Rations

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Old New Orleans Ironwork
  • LIFE Goes to An Episcopal Confirmation
  • Pictures to the Editors

    • Notable advertising includes: Joan Bennett for Chesterfields, Four Roses Whiskey ad illustrated by John Falter, full-page ad for The Shores of Tripoli, Schenley’s Cream of Kentucky Bourbon ad illustrated by Norman Rockwell, and a Coca-Cola ad on the back cover. NOTE: An * denotes ad is smaller than a full-page.

    1942-04-20 Life Magazine Contents

    1942/04/20 — Cover featuring “1942 Slacks” (Peggy Jeanne Ellis) is credited to Nina Leen.

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • England Falls in Love With Russia
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • Ballerina Vera Zorina Leads Elephant Ballet in Circus
  • C.I.O. and A.F. of L. Presidents Pledge Unity for Victory Effort
  • Bataan Wounded Lived with Pain
  • Nation Honors Army on 25th Anniversary of Entry into World War I

    • ARTICLE:

  • War Days on Corregidor by Francis B. Sayre

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • How to Build a Battleship

    • SCIENCE:

  • Western Engineers Survey Snow to Measure Summer Run-Off

    • MOVIES:

  • “My Favorite Blonde”

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Slacks
  • Women Lose Pockets and Frills to Save Fabrics

    • ART:

  • Whitney Museum of American Art – 5 pages, 4 of which are color reproductions of 8 paintings

    • SPORTS:

  • Muscle Men Break Records at San Francisco Meet

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Anti-Axis Cartoons
  • LIFE’s Reports: The Fiery End of Palembang’s Oil
  • People
  • Roll of Honor
  • LIFE Calls on the Stanton Family at War
  • Pictures to the Editors

    • Notable advertising includes: half-page ad featuring wrestler Man Mountain Dean for Wembley Nor-East Ties*, one-coolumn ad for Triscuit with illustration by Peter Arno, and a Camel Cigarettes ad featuring pitchman Joe DiMaggio along with 6 in-action photos of DiMaggio’s swing on the back cover. NOTE: An * denotes ad is smaller than a full-page.

    1942-04-27 Life Magazine Contents

    1942/04/27 — Cover photograph featuring Nelson Rockefeller is credited to Myron H. Davis

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

  • China Asks India Whether It Will Fight
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • Soldier Looks for Duffel Bag Before Leaving for Parts Unknown
  • Australians and U.S. Parents Honor MacArthur’s Name
  • Department of Justice Solves Problem of Capital Blues
  • Big Bombers Move Off Assembly Line
  • U.S. Bombs Tokyo
  • Women in Uniform March for a Cause
  • Vermont Harvests Its Maple Syrup in Wartime
  • Normandie’s Epic Hulk Sprawls at New York Pier

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Radio – War Ends Rich Era and Brings Fresh Problems

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Nelson Rockefeller by Noel F. Busch

    • ART:

  • Tom Lea Paints U.S. Soldiers at Work

    • THEATER:

  • “Guest in the House”

    • NATIONAL DEFENSE:

  • Civil Air Patrol

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • U.S. Bathrooms Take It on Spout As WPB Outlaws Most Metal Goods

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Photography Class
  • LIFE’s Reports: The Burma Front by Clare Booth (Luce)
  • LIFE Goes to a Party at Santa Monica with Soldiers & Starlets
  • Pictures to the Editors

    • 1942-05-25 Life Magazine Contents

    1942/05/25 — Cover featuring “Spring Planting” is credited to Eric Schaal.

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

  • Norman Bel Geddes’ Models Re-enact Naval Battle
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • Actress Rita Hayworth Stitches the Britches of Private Luther Eklund
  • Armed Forces Throughout U.S. Celebrate Mother’s Day
  • Coast Guard Tracks Down Subs Off Eastern Court
  • Cameramen Photograph Each Other Across Home Plate During Close Play
  • Davenport, Iowa, Shows U.S. How to Sell War Bonds
  • English Schoolgirl Reports on Dover Bombings

    • ARTICLE:

  • The American Military Tradition by Colonel Herman Beukema

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Spring Planting

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Cotton Dresses Get Top Fashion Rating

    • ART:

  • Tom Lea Paints North Atlantic Patrol

    • RELIGION:

  • Long Island Diocese Gets New Episcopal Bishop

    • NATURAL HISTORY:

  • The Salmon Hatches

    • SPORTS:

  • Army Trainasium at Fort Knox Exercises 60 Men at Once

    • MOVIES:

  • “In Which We Serve”

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Cartoons Show Air Cadets Mistakes
  • LIFE’s Reports: They Die for France
  • LIFE Goes on a Bicycle Weekend
  • Pictures to the Editors

    • Notable advertising includes: Half-page ad featuring Paulette Goddard for Royal Crown Cola*, Lucky Strike ad illustrated by Arnold Blanch on the back cover. NOTE: An * denotes ad is smaller than a full-page.

    1942-06-01 Life Magazine Contents

    1942/06/01 — Cover featuring Hedy Lamarr is credited to Bob Landry.

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • The Spring Brings Bombs with Blossoms
  • …Hitler’s Bombs Hit Britain’s Bath
  • …R.A.F.’s Bombs Hit Lubeck and Rosteck
  • …U.S. Filers Are Decorated for Bombs That Hit Japan
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • The Horse Age Returns to Boston’s Back Bay
  • Hollywood Stars Hit Road for Army-Navy Relief
  • New Primate of England is Enthroned with Pomp
  • Mauna Loa Volcano is Bombed to Divert Lava

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • General Brereton by Clare Booth

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Yale at War

    • MOVIES:

  • “Tortilla Flat” starring Hedy Lamarr & Spencer Tracy and based on the John Steinbeck novel

    • THEATER:

  • “By Jupiter”

    • NATURAL HISTORY:

  • Blue Jays

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Stevens Point, Wis. Shows How to Organize Salvage Program

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Electron Microscope Reveals Unknown World
  • LIFE’s Reports: Lieut. Col. Buzz Wagner by Robert Sherrod
  • LIFE Goes to a Tall Tales Session in Texas
  • Pictures to the Editors

    • Notable advertising includes: full-page ad for Shirley Temple in Miss Annie Rooney, Electric Companies ad features caricatures of Hitler, Mussolini and Hirohito, full-page Schenley’s Cream of Kentucky Bourbon ad illustrated by Norman Rockwell, USO ad illustrated by Albert Dorne, and a Camel Cigarettes on the back cover. NOTE: An * denotes ad is smaller than a full-page.

    1940-03-11 Life Magazine Contents

    1940/03/11 — Cover photograph featuring French Soldier (Poilu) is credited to Stedman Jones

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

  • The Last Agony of Fighting Finland Is Wrapped in the Beauty of Snow

  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • Vivien Leigh Wins an Oscar for her Scarlett – Just a single page, it’s a full-page black & white photo of Leigh putting her Oscar on her mantel
  • Anzacs Arrive in Egypt to Join Allies in Near East
  • Fenske Wins Indoor Mile Championship As Cunningham Takes a Spill
  • British Democracy Respects Conscientious Objectors

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • The French Front – 2,000,000 Men in Arms Wait for the Great Assault
  • …Spring Styles in Strategies by Major George Fielding Eliot

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Joachim von Ribbentrop

    • SPORTS:

  • Beagles
  • Clarence Capes Is Best Skate Sailor

    • THEATER:

  • Betty Hutton Rips Into Miss Muffet
  • George Jean Nathan Writes New Encyclopedia of Broadway

    • MOVIES:

  • LIFE Goes Calling on Jean Arthur in Hollywood – 4 pages of photos
  • The Voices of Pinocchio – 4 pages (all half page with half pages of advertising on the other side)

    • ART:

  • The Death of Dillinger – A Painting for LIFE by Reginald Marsh

    • SCIENCE:

  • Light Control Demonstrator Shows How Lenses and Reflectors Work

    • EDUCATION:

  • Speech School at Northwestern Teaches Students How to Talk

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: These Are from the Album of J.P. Morgan, Jr.
  • LIFE Goes to a Prep School Houseparty
  • Pictures to the Editors

    • 1940-04-29 Life Magazine Contents

    1940/04/29 — Cover photograph featuring Winston Churchill is credited to Margaret Bourke-White

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

  • Germany and Britain Push a Desperate Race Against Time into Norway
  • The Action in Norway by Major George Fielding Eliot
  • The Prospect in Norway by Captain B.H. Liddell Hart
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • Mrs. James Roosevelt Sits for Portrait
  • The Lake Shore Limited Kills 30, Injures 100
  • British Farmers Plough Their Fields by Night
  • British Bluenoses Crack Down in Wartime Nudity
  • Milwaukee’s Lyric Mayor Lifts His Voice in Song
  • Republicans Make First Campaign Movie of 1940
  • Reliefers in Pittsburgh Rebel Against Pennsylvania Milk Act

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Raeder the Raider

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • World Sea Power

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Increasing Zest for Garden Work Creates New Field for Stylists

    • THEATER:

  • “Ladies in Retirement’

    • SCIENCE:

  • Electron Microscope Magnifies Invisible World 25,000 Times

    • ART:

  • A Portrait of Katharine Cornell
  • The Du Bois Family is an Art Foursome

    • RADIO:

  • Dartmouth Students Ape Big-Time Shows

    • SPORTS:

  • Girl Swimmers from New York Set New World’s Record
  • Wrestlers Wear Strange Costumes for a New Gag – Just a single page, but with color photos of Lion-Hearted Italian, Golden Horror, The Bald-Headed Santa, Mephistopheles the Red Devil and Mustafa the Terrible Turk

    • BOOKS:

  • “Elizabeth” of German Garden Fame

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Tricky Props Create Illusions
  • LIFE Goes to a Boys’ Battle in Waterbury, Connecticut
  • Pictures to the Editors
  • Full-page ad for Cream of Kentucky Bourbon illustrated by Norman Rockwell

    • 1940-06-10 Life Magazine Contents

    1940/06/10 — Cover featuring Emperor Hirohito is credited to Underwood & Underwood

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

  • Americans Face Choice Between Democracy and Dictatorship at Home
  • What Americans Said and Did as Nazis Triumphed
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • German Private Rides Away With a French Flag Captured in Battle
  • The Battle of Flanders
  • …The German Attack
  • Italian Students Clamor For War Against Allies
  • Refugees: An Army of Human Misery Gets Millions of Fresh Recruits
  • Nazi Fifth Column and Communist Allies Are Active in Mexico
  • “My Escape from Norway” by Sigrid Undset
  • Nazis Mop up Norway

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Emporer Hirohito

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • R.A.F.: New Glory Won in Britain by “Cloud Cavalry”

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Nylon: Women Hope New Yarn Will Halve Their Stocking Bill

    • THEATER:

  • “Louisiana Purchase”

    • ART:

  • Sculptor Milles Weds Two Great Rivers in New St. Louis Fountain

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • From LIFE’s Correspondents
  • Speaking of Pictures: Cattle Branding is Heraldry of the West
  • LIFE Goes to a Mountain Funeral
  • Pictures to the Editors

    • Notable advertising includes: American Airlines ad inside the front cover with color illustration by Albert Dorne, The Mountain Boys by Paul Webb for Kellogg’s All Bran*, Birds-Eye with comic by Harry Beckhoff, Kellogg’s Rice Krispies ad in color with early Snap, Crackle & Pop, Ginger Rogers for 1847 Rogers Bros., Lucky Strike, Schenley’s Cream of Kentucky Bourbon illustrated by Norman Rockwell, Li’l Abner by Al Capp for Cream of Wheat, 2-page ad for Schlitz Beer in the middle of the issue is illustrated by Charles Addams, Symbols of Security from United Aircraft Corporation*, and a Real Silk Hosiery ad is on the back cover. NOTE: An * denotes ad is smaller than a full-page.

    1940-07-08 Life Magazine Contents

    1940/07/08 — Cover photograph featuring Admiral Harold Stark is credited to Harris & Ewing

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

  • Revolutionary Battlefields Mark Our Fight for Freedom
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • U.S. Aviation Gets 318 New Merchants
  • German Troops Enter Paris
  • The Collapse of France
  • Debutantes Are Previewed as “Little Season” Gets Under Way
  • The Defense of America by Major George Eliot Fielding

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Republican Convention – Wendell Willkie is the People’s Choice

    • EXPLORATION:

  • Admiral Byrd ‘s Antarctic Expedition Finds 900 Miles of New Coastline

    • SPORTS:

  • Sargeant College Girls Learn How to Improve Healt of Nation
  • Alfred Vanderbilt’s Belmont Makes Horse Racing Popular

    • EDUCATION:

  • One of America’s 165,000 Graduates Gets Degree at U.S.C.

    • THEATER:

  • “Keep Off the Grass”

    • MEDICINE:

  • Powdered Blood Serum Solves problem of Battlefield Surgeons

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Roller-Skate Dancing Starts Bloomers Fad

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: New York From Four Miles Up
  • LIFE Goes to a Party at Robert Ripley ‘s
  • Pictures to the Editors

    • 1940-09-02 Life Magazine Contents

    1940/09/02 — Cover photograph featuring the Dionne Quintuplets is credited to Hansel Mieth

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • Muder Ends Great Revolutionary Career of Leon Trotsky – 5 pages packed with photos, opening with one of Trotsky on his hospital bed

  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World

  • Duke of Windsor Inspects His New Seat of Government at the Bahamas
  • Wendell Willkie Begins His Campaign
  • German “Balloon Busters” Attack the Dover Barrage
  • Women of Wrath String up Senator on Capital Lawn
  • …President Roosevelt Inspects Army Maneuvers at Ogdensburg
  • U.S. Flag Business Booms
  • Army Plugs Recruiting Drive with Modern Advertising Methods
  • British Use Millais Painting as Propaganda
  • The White House in Color

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • The Dionne Quintuplets – The Enter the Age of Reason

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Henry A. Wallace

    • ANIMALS:

  • U.S. Kennels Are World Breeding Center as Germany Kills Its Dogs

    • MOVIES:

  • “The Great Dictator” starring Charlie Chaplin – 4 pages, packed with photos of Chaplin from the movie

    • TRAVEL:

  • Ferryboat Makes 10,000 Mile Trip on High Seas

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • From LIFE’s Correspondents
  • Speaking of Pictures: Night Baseball
  • LIFE’s Pictures: An Index
  • LIFE Goes to a Party With Drama Students at East Hampton, L.I.
  • Pictures to the Editors
  • Color ad for 1847 Rogers Bros. with half-page color photo of Carole Lombard

    • 1940-11-04 Life Magazine Contents

    1940/11/04 — Cover photograph featuring San Diego Campaign Rally is credited to William C. Shrout

    Contents of this issue are as follows:
    THE CAMPAIGN:

  • Americans Hit new High in Political Pop as Presidential Race Nears Finish
  • Republicans Hurl All Resources into Last Big Push for Victory
  • Worried Democrats Start Last-Minute Sprint in Home Stretch
  • Two Philadelphia Willkiemen Turn Thumbs Down on Third Term
  • Willkie vs. Roosevelt – The Choice Before Us
  • Labor’s Lewis Condemns Roosevelt, Endorses Willkie
  • Amateurs and Professionals Flock to the Hustings
  • Campaign Posters of Both Parties Plaster U.S.
  • An Election Chart
  • “What Kind of America Do We the People Want!” by Wendell L. Willkie
  • Willkie is Target for Missiles

    • NEWS OF THE WEEK:

  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • First Uncensored Pictures of Paris Under Germans
  • California Town Stands on its Head

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • The New Hollywood – Stars Now Live Quietly and Raise Children – Includes photos of Merle Oberon, Brenda Marshall, 4 of Betty Grable exercising on the beach, Bing Crosby, Bette Davis knitting, Ray Milland, Loretta Young, Cary Grant with Irene Dunne and others

    • SPORTS:

  • Whitson Brothers Do Acrobatic Miracles
  • Hunters Take to the Fields
  • …Game Birds in Color

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Reducing Machines

    • MOVIES:

  • “Knute Rockne — All American”

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Football Skill
  • From LIFE’s Correspondents
  • LIFE’s Pictures: An Index
  • LIFE Goes to a Halloween Party
  • Pictures to the Editors

    • 1940-11-18 Life Magazine Contents

    1940/11/18 — Cover photograph featuring President Franklin Delano Roosevelt is credited to Otto Hagel

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

  • Franklin Roosevelt Wins Another Chance to Be Great Leader of United People
  • Raymond Clapper Analyzes National Unity
  • Wendell Willkie Remains a Potent Leader
  • Winners in Nip & Tuck Taces for Governorships and Congress
  • The Republican Party’s Future by Kenneth Simpson
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • The Emperor of Japan Reviews His Fleet
  • Tacoma Bridge Crashes in Puget Sound
  • Italian Bombers Menace Art of Ancient Athens

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • William Saroyan

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Churchill, England – LIFE Visits an English Village

    • EDUCATION:

  • Deaf-blind Children Learn to “See and Hear”

    • THEATER:

  • “Charley’s Aunt”

    • NATIONAL DEFENSE:

  • Johnson Rifle Stirs Up Military Squabble

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • All-American Fashions
  • New York Stores Start Fad for Navy Styles

    • NATURAL HISTORY:

  • Ducks and Geese Thrive and Increase

    • SCIENCE:

  • Radium

    • MOVIES:

  • “Arizona” starring Jean Arthur and William Holden

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • From LIFE’s Correspondents
  • Speaking of Pictures: Table-top Photographs
  • LIFE’s Pictures: An Index
  • LIFE Goes to a Lifeguards’ Party
  • Pictures to the Editors
  • Full-page ad for “Arizona” starring Jean Arthur and William Holden (also article in this issue)