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1944-08-07 Life Magazine Contents August 7 1944

1944/08/07 — Cover photograph featuring Geraldine Fitzgerald is credited to Philippe Halsman

Contents of this issue are as follows:

THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • Battle of the Hedgerows – New U.S. Offensive in Normandy
  • Editorial: World ‘Realism’ 1944
  • First Negro Votes in Texas Democratic Primary
  • Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. Buried – 2 pages
  • Explosion in Germany – An attempt on Hitler’s life as bomb explodes in Hitler’s headquarters in Berchtsgarden on July 20 – 2 pages
  • Santayana
  • Mexican Soldier’s Disgrace

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Senator Byrd of Virginia by Gerald W. Johnson

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Movie Illusions – Hollywood Technicians Create Reality Inside Studios – 9 pages packed with photos

    • BOOKS:

  • “I Never Left Home” by Bob Hope

    • MOVIE:

  • “Wilson” – 3-1/2 pages

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Backyard Cooking
  • Swedish Glass

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: A Baby’s Afternoon from Bath to Bath
  • LIFE’s Reports: The Mules of Myitkyina by Peggy Durdin
  • LIFE Calls on the Earl of Athlone
  • Pictures to the Editors

    • 1943-06-14 Life Magazine Contents

    1943/06/14 — Cover featuring High School Graduation is credited to Fritz Goro

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • War’s Aftermath in North Africa
  • Editorial
  • Director Byrnes Visits His South Carolina Neighbors
  • Japs Are Dug Out from Snowy Peaks of Attu
  • American Warships Salvaged at Pearl Harbor

    • ARTICLES:

  • The Tunisian Campaign by Hanson W. Baldwin
  • LIFE Interviews General McNair

    • ESSAY:

  • Literary England

    • WAR LIVING:

  • Bareback Dresses Invade the City

    • MOVIE:

  • “Five Graves to Cairo” featuring Erich Von Stroheim as Rommel

    • ART:

  • Nazi War on Russians Is Shown In Russian Artist’s Work

    • SPORTS:

  • Girl Tumbler Defies Laws of Physics and Anatomy

    • NATURAL HISTORY:

  • Carnivorous Plants

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Monkeys Are Not Good Gardeners
  • LIFE’s Reports: In Buna the Dead Know Peace by John Purcell
  • LIFE Goes to a High School Graduation in Forest, Ohio
  • Pictures to the Editors

    • 1943-10-11 Life Magazine Contents

    1943/10/11 — Cover photograph featuring Half-Hats in Fashion is credited to Philippe Halsman

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • First Lady’s South Pacific Tour
  • Editorial
  • English Road Signs
  • Landing at Lae
  • Al Dexter’s “Pistol Packin’ Mama”
  • Zoe Gail’s “I’m Going to Get Lit-Up”
  • London Banquet

    • ARTICLE:

  • Stuttgart Raid by Frank Scherschel

    • FICTION:

  • “The Silence of the Sea” by Vercors

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Jewish Homeland – Palestine Wants a Million More Jews – 9 full pages, all black & white

    • MOVIE:

  • Merle Oberon in “The Lodger”

    • ARMY & NAVY:

  • Logistics Mode at Camp Lee
  • Color Photographs of the Aleutians

    • ART:

  • An Album of Chinese Paintings
  • …with an introduction by Wilder Hobson

    • WAR LIVING:

  • Half-Hats and Buns

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Life and Times of U.S.S. “Mayflower”
  • LIFE’s Reports: The Partisans by Howard K. Smith
  • LIFE Goes to a Hero’s Homecoming
  • Pictures to the Editors
  • Full-page color ad features Rita Hayworth for Max Factor

    • 1942-10-05 Life Magazine Contents

    1942/10/05 — Cover featuring “Hats in Fashion” featuring Joan Thorsen is credited to Philippe Halsman

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • Red Army Fights for Mother Russia
  • … Wendell Willkie Writes of Interview With Stalin
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • Columnist Westbrook Pegler Strips His Auto Bumpers for Scrap
  • Battle Action in the Solomons
  • American Legion Opens Ranks to Veterans of World War II

    • ARTICLE:

  • Armies That Win by David Cort is a short history of the art of warfare including the evolution of weapons and the principles that have always brought victory

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Nations Leaders Take Hasty Lunches in Crowded Capital

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Alexander Kartveli by Joseph Kastner

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • What to Expect of Babies of Different Ages
  • Eye Catcher Hats

    • SCIENCE:

  • Night Vision

    • ARMY & NAVY:

  • Christmas Gifts for Services Should Be Mailed Early
  • Amateur Photographers Can Help U.S. Work Out Invasion Plans
  • Armoured Force Cartoons Tell Soldiers How to Act If Captured

    • NATURAL HISTORY:

  • This Years Plentiful Fruit and Vegetable Harvest Is Frugally Picked

    • THEATER:

  • “The Pirate” with Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne

    • MOVIES:

  • Lucille Ball Wins First Chance as Big-Time Star – Du Barry Was a Lady featuring photos of Lucy dancing

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: New Experiemtns by Andreas Feininger
  • LIFE’s Reports: Nebraska’s Scrap Campaign by Russell W. Davenport
  • LIFE Visits U.S. Army Nurses in New Caldonia
  • Pictures to the Editors
  • Full-page black & white ad for “Desperate Journey” starring Errol Flynn and Ronald Reagan

    • 1942-05-18 Life Magazine Contents

    1942/05/18 — Cover featuring “Cadet Bombardier” is credited to William Shrout

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • Japanese Sweep Through Burma
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • St. Vincent’s Hospital in New York Has Air-Raid Rehearsal
  • Sub Hits Water Sideways in Great Lakes Launching
  • D.A.R. Makes History at Chicago Meeting
  • Cameraman Catches Final Second of Suicide Dive – full-page photo of woman in mid-air
  • Roosevelt Harvest Crop of Navy Keels
  • How British in Burma Escaped Jap Trap by Jack Belden

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS:

  • World Oil – Its Geography Guides the War
  • Bombardier School

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Admiral Jerry Land by Lincoln Barnett

    • MOVIES:

  • My Gal Sal starring Rita Hayworth and Charles Boyer

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Short Nightgowns

    • SPORTS:

  • Newt Loken Is Best All-around Gymnast
  • Game of Go Enthralls U.S. Players

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Charles Boyer Teaches Starlet (Alexis Smith) How to Kiss
  • LIFE’s Reports: Australian Slang by Wilson Hicks
  • LIFE Goes to the Mardi Gras in Rio with Orson Welles
  • Pictures to the Editors
  • Full-page 2 color ad for Rita Hayworth in “My Gal Sal” features black & white Rita with bright red hair

    • 1944-01-17 Life Magazine Contents

    1944/01/17 — Cover featuring Historian Charles Beard is credited to Walter Sanders

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • Fascist Indictments and “Peace Now” – U.S. Indicts Its Top Two Fascists: Lawrence Dennis and Joe McWilliams
  • Editorial
  • Citation of ” Siwash” the Marine Duck
  • Jap Bomber Falls
  • OPA Party
  • Air Forces Report

    • ARTICLE:

  • We the People by Charles A. Beard

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Arturo Toscanini by Winthrop Sargeant

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Green Arctic features the lower Mackenzie valley in Canada’s Northwest Territories

    • MOVIES:

  • “A Guy Named Joe” starring Spencer Tracy and Irene Dunne

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Winter Haven’s Queen of the Range Models Bathing Suits featuring Tee Matthews

    • ARMY:

  • Rockets

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Fifth Army Division Cartoons by Bill Mauldin
  • LIFE Goes to a Party: A Blind Date
  • Pictures to the Editors

    • 1941-07-14 Life Magazine Contents

    1941/07/14 — Cover featuring “San Sailing” is credited to Alfred Eisenstaedt

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • Red Army Battles to the death for Survival of U.S.S.R.
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • President Roosevelt Opens Hyde Park Library
  • Anne Bullitt and Marion Chadwick Take on New Social Duties
  • U.S. Arrests 32 in Great Spy Round-up

    • ARTICLES:

  • America on Its 165th Anniversary of Independence by Hubert Kay
  • Alexander Kerensky, No. 1 Russian Exile, Predicts Speedy Victory for Hitler
  • German Parachutist Gives Eyewitness Account of Invasion of Crete

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Vacations

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Keep Cool With Green

    • THEATER:

  • The Hartmans Tour Straw-Hat Theaters

    • SPORTS:

  • Reed College in Oregon Has Only Girl Coxswain

    • MOVIES

  • Sergeant York starring Gary Cooper – 3 pages, all movie scenes

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Bubble Blowing
  • LIFE Goes to a Hollywood House Moving – Hedda Hopper is moving and the stars show up to help including Rosalind Russell, Anna May Wong, Cary Grant and others
  • Pictures to the Editors
  • Full-page color ad for “The Shepherd of the Hills” starring John Wayne and Betty Field

    • 1945-07-30 Life Magazine Contents

    1945/07/30 — Cover featuring “Playing on the Beach” is credited to Harriet Arnold

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • Displaced Persons Swarm Across Europe
  • Editorial: America and Russia
  • Patrice Munsel Doesn’t Shock Met
  • Pros and Cons Testify at Charter Hearings
  • Presidential Cap
  • Surrender Papers Are Displayed in Washington

    • ARTICLE:

  • Kamikaze by John Hersey

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • American Songs

    • FARMING:

  • The Postwar Jeep

    • MOVIE:

  • “You Came Along” featuring the debut of Lizabeth Scott

    • MEDICINE:

  • Men Starve in Minnesota

    • ART

  • Louvre Art Returns
  • Paintings Show Ground Strafing

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Children Make Shadows on Sand
  • LIFE Goes on a Holiday with Ella Raines
  • Miscellany: Veterans Hunt for Clothes

    • 1945-01-08 Life Magazine Contents

    1945/01/08 — Cover featuring “Crochet Togs” is credited to Nina Leen

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • Americans Battle the German Big Push by Charles Christian Walker
  • Editorial: 1945 on the Home Front
  • Rome’s Black Market
  • Congressmen Inspect the War
  • Tokyo Exposed by B-29 Air Views
  • The Case of Carol Ann – The Charlie Chaplin Paternity Case
  • The Acropolis Becomes a Fortress
  • McCormick Weds
  • Teachers College Celebrates Centennial

    • ARTICLE:

  • The Future of Liberated France by Richard de Rochemont

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Frank Fay by Maurice Zolotow

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Movie Making – It’s a Complex Business of Machines and Technicians

    • ART:

  • Pleissner Paints St. Lo Battle

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Crochet Togs

    • SPORTS

  • Best Chesapeake Bay Retrievers

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Soldier Cartoonist Kids War Correspondents
  • LIFE Goes to a Cotillion for 99 New York Debutantes

    • 1945-03-26 Life Magazine Contents

    1945/03/26 — Cover featuring Carol Lynne is credited to Gjon Mili

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • Paris Black Market Robs U.S. Army
  • Editorial: Un- American Activities
  • King George Presents Victoria Cross to War Hero
  • “Golden Gloves” Provide Slam-bang Boxing Pictures
  • B-29s Set Tokyo Afire
  • The Desert of Cologne
  • Battle of the Tanks

    • ARTICLE:

  • “Carrier War” by Lieut. Oliver Jensen, USNR

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Soprano’s Progress by Winthrop Sargeant is about Jean Carlton (formerly Cubbage)

    • ANIMALS:

  • Angora Rabbits Are Profitable

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Petticoat-Blouse

    • SCIENCE:

  • Research Makes Blood Raw Material for Medicine

    • NIGHTCLUBS

  • Brussels Nightclub

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Californian Builds House in 34 Minutes
  • LIFE’s Reports: The Famous Iwo Flag-Raising
  • LIFE Watches Carol Lynne Skate with Lights on Her Toes
  • LIFE’s Miscellany: Wacs Shiver in Paris

    • 1945-05-07 Life Magazine Contents

    1945/05/07 — Cover featuring “The German People” is credited to William Vandivert

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • War in Europe Draws To Its End
  • Editorial: The End of the War in Europe
  • U.S. and Russian Lieutenants Link Armies
  • The German Atrocities – Capture of the German Concentration Camps Piles Up Evidence of Barbarism that Reaches the Low Point of Human Degradation – 6 pages of pretty terrible b&w photos
  • San Francisco Security Conference Starts
  • The Russians by Fillmore Calhoun
  • Roosevelt Rites

    • ARTICLE:

  • The German People by Percy Knauth

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Lauren Bacall by Francis Sill Wickware – spreads over 8 pages though the last 6 are all half-pages with advertising on the other half–does open with a full page b&w photo of Bacall

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Spring in France

    • SPORTS:

  • New Baseball Czar Faces Tough Season – Happy Chandler – Includes 6 small photos of one-armed ballplayer Pete Gray fielding a ball and making the throw in

    • AMERICANA:

  • How America Lived

    • BALLET

  • “Undertow” Is Freudian Ballet

    • POULTRY:

  • Ducks for Food

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Space Shapes
  • Shopping Sleuth Hunts Novelties for Fashion Magazine

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: “Yank” Cartoons Reflect War Humor
  • LIFE’s Reports: Army Pulls Out of Abilene by Holland McCombs
  • LIFE Visits an Enchanted Isle
  • LIFE’s Miscellany: Missouri Meerschaums

    • 1945-02-05 Life Magazine Contents

    1945/02/05 — Cover featuring “Florida fashions” featuring Amelia Crossland is credited to Nina Leen

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • Last Days of the Ardennes Salient
  • Editorial: The Lesson of Greece
  • Archbishop Damaskinos Becomes Regent of Greece
  • Russians Move “On the Berlin”
  • War-Zone Bride Gets Kissed
  • Two Herefords Sell for $100,000
  • Wallace Appointment Stirs Up a Political Row
  • The Forgotten Fronts – Little Wars Wage On Unnoticed by Headlines

    • ARTICLE:

  • My Country: Austria by Ferdinand Czernin

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Bill Mauldin by Will Lang and Tom Durrance

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • American Legends, Photographs by Andreas Feininger – Mike Fink – Blackbeard – Davy Crockett – Paul Bunyun – John Henry – Johnny Appleseed – Joe Hill – Judge Roy Bean

    • MEDICINE:

  • Search for T.B.

    • ART:

  • David Fredenthal Sketches Red Army in Yuogslavia

    • MOVIES

  • Merle Oberon as George Sand – Painting by Alexander Brook
  • “A Song to Remember” – Biography of Chopin starring Paul Muni and Merle Oberon

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • The Dido Is a New Sleeping Garment

    • THEATER:

  • “The Hasty Heart

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Dick Pope Introduces “Florida’s Prettiest” including the cover girl
  • LIFE Goes to Inauguration
  • LIFE’s Miscellany: Rosario and Antonio Do Old Gypsy Dances

    • 1945-09-10 Life Magazine Contents

    1945/09/10 — Cover featuring “Auto Worker” is credited to William C. Shrout

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • U.S. Occupies Japan – 13 pages include MacArthur’s Arrival
  • Editorial: Peace in Asia
  • King Leopold’s Family
  • Black Markets Boom in Berlin
  • Lilly Dache Packs for Paris

    • ARTICLES:

  • Nijinsky in Vienna by William Walton
  • As We May Think by Vannevar Bush

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • United Automobile Workers

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • House for Texas
  • The French Look

    • ART:

  • Portrait of Sylvia Sidney by Fletcher Martin (color)
  • Hudson River School of Painters – with 4 pages of color reproductions

    • MOVIES

  • “Uncle Harry” with Geraldine Fitzgerald, George Sanders, Ella Raines

    • SPORTS:

  • Grownups Spin Tops

    • SCIENCE:

  • Plant Cancer

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Germany’s Fantastic Secret Weapons
  • LIFE’s Reports: “Bottoms Up” in China, by Lieut. Thomas P. Ronan
  • LIFE Goes Swordfishing
  • Miscellany: Seabees Give Waves a Party

    • 1946-02-25 Life Magazine Contents

    1946/02/25 — Cover featuring “Field Trial” is credited to William C. Shrout

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • U.S. Denounces Argentine Fascism – Photographs by Thomas D. McAvoy include the Perons
  • Editorial: The World and U.S. Food
  • Pearl Harbor Record Piles Up
  • Mayors Have a Tough Week at the Office
  • Indian Riots Bring Violence in Bombay
  • Star Flares Up
  • First UNO Meeting Ends
  • Arab Kings Meet – Egypts’s Farouk and Ibn Saud

    • ARTICLE:

  • What’s Wrong With Our Army? by Robert Neville
  • Second-Class Citizens by Paul Deutschman

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Mary Roberts Rinehart by Geoffrey T. Hellman

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • The Rock Island

    • SCIENCE:

  • Carbon 13

    • NATURE:

  • Breeders Develop New Types of Pedigreed Orchids

    • MODERN LIVING

  • Stiff Petticoats

    • SPORTS:

  • Champion U.S. Long-Distance Swimmer

    • THEATER:

  • “Born Yesterday” with Judy Holliday, Gary Merrill, Paul Douglas

    • MOVIES:

  • “Bedlam” with Boris Karloff, plus brief half-page article about Val Lewton

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Oriental Gentleman Cuts Occidental Figures on Ice
  • LIFE’s Reports: Music and Collaboration
  • LIFE Goes to a Field Trial
  • Miscellany: Diva in Trousers

    • 1942-08-24 Life Magazine Contents

    1942/08/24 — Cover featuring “Johnny Jeep Hats” is credited to Nina Leen

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • Marines Attack Solomons
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • Picture of the Week: Surrender of U.S. Soldiers on Bataan
  • New Faces for Congress?
  • American Cartoonists Attack Gandhi
  • Hollywood Goes Russian
  • Sailor’s Album: A Local Boy Comes Home on Leave
  • House of Windsor Poses in Color
  • The First American Action of World War II in color
  • U.S. Secret Service Shows How to Tell Good Money from Bad
  • Russians Fight to Keep Stalin’s Birthplace Free

    • ARTICLE:

  • The French Underground by Richard de Rochemont

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC:

  • National Maritime Union

    • MEDICINE:

  • New York City Fights Hay Fever

    • MOVIES:

  • Burnu Acquanetta is New “Venezuelan Volcano”

    • AVIATION:

  • Conversation in a Flying Fortress

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • The Johnny Jeep Hat

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Russian War Posters
  • LIFE Goes to a Hellzapoppin’ Farm Party
  • Pictures to the Editors

    • 1942-06-22 Life Magazine Contents

    1942/06/22 — Cover featuring “War Stamp Bride” is credited to Nina Leen

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • Three Greatest Nations Sign Alliances
  • …Britain and U.S.S.R. Make a Power Pact
  • …While the Great Russian Army Fights On
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • Winston Churchill II Visits His Mother in Bomb-Free London
  • U.S.S. Lexington Sinks to Her Grave in the Coral Sea
  • …And U.S. Fleet Wins Victory at Midway
  • Racing Hits Wartime Boom As Public James Tracks
  • Newsreel Shots Show Speedy Occupation of Madagascar
  • A Young Product of Hitler’s Education Returns Home

    • ARTICLE:

  • Burma Mission — Part 2 by Clare Boothe

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Logistics–The Science of Supplying an Army

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Furlough Brides Marry in Haste But Have Formal Weddings

    • THEATER:

  • Broadway Critics Go Wild Over Trained Dog Act

    • MOVIES:

  • “This Gun for Hire” starring Veronica Lake and Alan Ladd

    • SPORT:

  • Marbles-mad Beloit Crowns a New Mibs King

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Hawaiian Islands Have Many Races
  • LIFE Visits A Small Town Barbershop
  • LIFE Goes Fishing for Landlocked Salmon in Maine
  • Pictures to the Editors

    • 1944-05-22 Life Magazine Contents

    1944/05/22 — Cover featuring “Model Mother” is credited to Nina Leen

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • The Allies Advance in New Guinea
  • Editorial: Advice to the Republicans
  • Pacific Theater Souvenir
  • The British Commonwealth
  • Explosion in India
  • Four Poems on the Eve of Invasion by Joseph Auslander
  • Garden Party in Washington

    • ARTICLES:

  • Death of the Hangman by An Eyewitness – An American student was the sole eyewitness at killing of Reinhard Heydrich
  • The Gilberts & Marshalls by Commander Samuel Eliot Morison, USNR

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • The Mother of Parliaments

    • ART:

  • Airmen in the Aleutians

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Model Mothers

    • MOVIES:

  • “Gaslight”

    • SPORTS:

  • Pericles (race horse)

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Panorama of an Alaskan Glacier
  • LIFE’s Reports: America Waits for the News by Roger Butterfield
  • LIFE Visits the Hatfields-McCoys
  • Pictures to the Editors

    • 1941-07-21 Life Magazine Contents

    1941/07/21 — Cover featuring Singapore’s Commander in Chief, Sir Robert Brooke, is credited to Carl Mydans

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • New Pipeline Is Rushed to Help Meet East’s Growing Oil Shortage
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • Jo Davidson Sculpts Head of the President of Brazil
  • Blitzed British Baby Learns to Walk Again
  • Soldiers and Girls Have Fun at Army Recreation Camp
  • U.S. Troops Move Into War Zone as Navy Occupies Iceland
  • Russians Extol Their Heroes
  • …British Policy Is to Keep Their Man Nameless
  • Haile Selassie Returns to Addis Ababa – 2-1/2 full pages of mostly photos spread out over 4 pages total (with advertising on the remaining 1-1/2 pages).

    • ARTICLE:

  • America’s Great Mistake (“the empty dream of passive defense”) by Walter Lippmann

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Singapore – Britain’s Far Eastern Fortress – 13 full pages

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Helena Rubinstein by Elaine Brown Keiffer – Includes full-page color photo of Rubinstein

    • NATURAL HISTORY:

  • Rocks

    • MOVIES:

  • “Manpower” starring Edward G. Robinson, Marlene Dietrich, George Raft

    • MODERN LIVING

  • Suntan

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: LaGuardia Watches Baseball Game
  • LIFE Goes on a Floating Party
  • Pictures to the Editors

    • 1947-10-06 Life Magazine Contents

    1947/10/06 — Cover featuring Franklin Delano Roosevelt at 13 is courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library

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

  • Moscow Celebrates 800th Birthday – 7 pages
  • Editorial: Reform Is Sweeping the Cities
  • Pope and Monsignori Get Greetings Tangled
  • Europe Submits Its “Marshall Plan”
  • Kaiser-Frazer Success Surprises Detroit
  • The New Hungary Fetes the “Red Dean”

    • ARTICLE:

  • Cuba’s Tin Pan Alley by Winthrop Sargeant

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • James V. Forrestal by Ernest Haverman

    • PICTORIAL ESSAYS:

  • Apples
  • The Boyhood Letters of Franklin D. Roosevelt

    • SPORTS:

  • U.S. Team Wins Polo Championship

    • RADIO:

  • Miniature Wrist Radio – U.S. Bureau of Standards Develops a Dick Tracy wrist transmitter which can broadcast messages for a mile

    • SCIENCE:

  • How Fat Is a Fat Man

    • RELIGION:

  • “The Greatest Man in the World” is about Albert Schweitzer

    • FASHION:

  • The Dress

    • ANIMALS:

  • Armadillos

    • MOVIES:

  • “The Long Night” starring Henry Fonda

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • LIFE’s Reports: A Massacre in India by David Douglas Duncan

  • Speaking of Pictures: Agile Cameraman Records Rollercoaster Antics
  • Letters to the Editors
  • People –
  • Miscellany: Mexican Whirlers
  • LIFE Goes to the Warrenton Horse Show

    • 1955-04-11 Life Magazine Contents

    1955/04/11 — Cover featuring Grace Kelly is credited to Philippe Halsman.

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

  • Speaking of Pictures: Candid photos of sidewalk typists show some candid writing
  • Letters to the Editors
  • US gets set for polio vaccine: Drug houses stock up as results as optimistically awaited from Salk tests
  • A Look at the World’s Week
  • Italy’s Premier Mario Scelba wins friends for himself and his country on a thank-you visit to the US
  • The Tribune’s colonel dies: A rich and full life ends at 74 for Robert R. McCormick
  • Editorial: Ways to God
  • What goes on inside atomic sub
  • Preview for penguins: Antarctic visit of US Navy ship breaks way for an international expedition
  • New radiance for churches: The ancient art of stained-glass windows is revived by modern designers
  • Small-as-life copies: Window dummies are twins of child fashion models
  • Daring quest by jet boat: England’s Don Campbell seeks water speed record but prepares to do it safely
  • Stair-climbing wheel chair: A set of motor-driven windmilling wheels rools invalids backward up steps
  • Beautiful blossoming shrubs: Paintings in color by Anne Ophelia Todd of 12 of best floweing bushes to plant in spring
  • Witty wisdom in poet’s play: Christopher Fry’s “The Dark Is Light Enough” is full of good talk
  • Chickens over glass: Photographer gets a worm’s-eye view of brooding hen
  • High lady’s high jinks: England’s rich Lady Docker
  • Oscar winners pull a switch: Boisterous Brando is a perfect gentleman and imperturbably Kelly breaks down
  • LIFE’s Photographic Essay: The encroaching menace of the slims and what Chicago is doing about it
  • LIFE’s Article: Has the US discovered a new religion? Paul Hutchinson examines our spiritual trends
  • Tiny movie-makers in toyland: Industrial Designer invents a home movie kit for kids
  • Happy Change for a Heavy: Hollywood villain Ernest Borgnine plays a gentle hero (in “Marty”)
  • A big bank merger and a bigger one continue a business trend
  • Miscellany: Briton swabs the waves
  • Lucky Strikes Cigarettes ad on the Back Cover

    • 1955-05-30 Life Magazine Contents

    1955/05/30 — Cover featuring Historic Playing Cards is credited to Arnold Newman, courtesy of Guy de Lagerberg.

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

  • The chances for peace in 1955, an expert evaluation
  • New island will be first link in US offshore radar warning chain
  • A Look at the World’s Week
  • Tense time on a Winnipeg TV Tower
  • Color film records A-blast ruin as Civil Defense watches from afar
  • A parched Oklahomatown prays and dresses up for rain. It comes.

    • EDITORIALS:

  • Security and fair play
  • Diplomacy for the millions

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS:

  • America’s Arts and Skills, Part II: the look of liberty in craftmanship as patriotism becomes the American theme. Photographed for LIFE by Arnold Newman
  • Spring on a farm: under a warming sun the growing season’s work begins. Photographed for LIFE by Edward Clark

    • ARTICLE:

  • Dead end for the US highway, by Herbert Brean. What is wrong with the road you’ll be using this weekend, what made it that way and what can be done about it

    • FASHION:

  • France’s bigtime dressmakers turn a hand to playclothes

    • EDUCATION:
    Colby undergrads dedicate a cleanup day to president emeritus who did most to get new campus built

    MOVIES:

  • Film version of “The Seven Year Itch” gives a reassuring answer to a burning question about Marilyn Monroe — Opens with a 6″ X 13″ photo of Marilyn and follows with 6 more pics of Marilyn ranging in size from 2-1/2″ X 4″ to 4-1/2″ X 5-3/4″

    • ART:

  • The Queen of England poses for the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Grace Kelly’s Riviera romance
  • Sequel: US and USSR Elbe veterans reunite in Moscow
  • Party: Student high jinks add zest to Norway’s “Fourth of July”
  • Miscellany: A seat for 17
  • Corn Flakes ad illustrated by Stevan Dohanos
  • Chesterfield Cigarettes ad on the Back Cover

    • 1956-01-23 Life Magazine Contents

    1956/01/23 — Cover featuring Harry S Truman is credited to John Dominis

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

  • Robbery Team That Stole $1 Million from Brink’s in 1950 After Elaborate Rehearsals is Seized on Deadline by F.B.I.
  • A Look at the World’s Week
  • Florida’s Fattest Tourist Fling – Millions Seek a Place in the Sun
  • A New Farm Bill Tops Congressional List of Important Measures
  • Liberia Re-Inaugurates Tubman President as Russians Horn In
  • A Munificent Party-Giver Is Arrested for Embezzlement

    • EDITORIAL:

  • Truman, China and History

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • The Living Immortals of the Silent Screen as Picked by the Movies’ Pioneers, Are Shown as They Were and Are – Then & Now Photos of Mary Pickford – Gloria Swanson – Harold Lloyd – Buster Keaton – Norma Talmadge – Mae Marsh – Ronald Colman – Richard Barthelmess – Lillian Gish – Charlie Chaplin – 8 pages, several large photos with a little text for each star

    • ARTICLE:

  • The Truman Memoirs, Volume 2 – In the First of Five Installments from “Years of Trial and Hope,” Harry Truman Tells Why He Sent George Marshall to China in 1946 and How the Mission Failed. With 9 Color Portraits of Truman’s Top Aides as They Appear Today

    • SEQUEL:

  • In a True Thriller Berlin Kidnap Victims Flee Red Grip

    • ART:
    Museum Director’s Choice – A Sunny Fleeting Moment by Mary Cassatt , picked by the head of Washington’s Corcoran Gallery

    ANIMALS:

  • Kennel Club Recognizes, for First Time in a Decade, a New Breed of Dog – The Rough and REady Rhodesian Ridgeback

    • SPORTS:

  • U.S. Puts Best Foot Forward With Two Pretty Olympic Skaters – Carol Heiss and Tenley Albright

    • FASHION:

  • Bare Midriffs Are Back as Spring Buyers Snap Up New Designs

    • THEATER:

  • Thornton Wilder ‘s “Matchmaker” Blends Hokum and Wisdom Into Funniest Fracas on Broadway

    • SCIENCE:

  • New X-Ray Device Uses Powder to Take Detailed Photographs

    • PARTY:

  • Seattle Bus Riders Get Free Rides, Flowers and Fruit as City-Owned Line Popularizes 100 New Buses

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Speaking of Pictures: A Kansas Paint Dealer Sculptures His Home Towners In Cement
  • Miscellany: No Neck on Deck

    • 1956-02-06 Life Magazine Contents

    1956/02/06 — Cover featuring Shirley Jones is credited to William Helburn

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

  • South Rises Again in Campaign to Delay Integration
  • Graph and Flares Shed Light on Disastrous California train wreck
  • Congress has a gassy debate over natural gas rates
  • Finns repossess as Russians surrender a lease
  • A Look at the World’s Week

    • EDITORIALS:

  • An artist confined
  • Artists at Liberty

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS:

  • Wild birds in flight – Color pictures made of 5,000th of a second by a Newark, N.Y. nurseryman win $5,000 first prize in LIFE–P.S.A. Essay Contest
  • First of a new LIFE series, how to gie children’s parties – celebrating the birthday of a 4-year-old, a Connecticut mother uses new rules drawn up by the director of the Gesell Institute and finds simplicity brings success – Photographed for LIFE by Nina Leen

    • ARTICLES:

  • Tough Decisions in Korean Crisis – in Part 3 of The Truman Memoirs the former President describes tense top-level debates in Washington while friction developed with MacArthur
  • The Commuters’ Rebellion – Patrick McGinnis, as the New Haven Railroad Chief achieves a Unique Peak of Unpopularity – By Robert Wallace

    • SEQUEL:

  • Social Note from Moscow – “Porgy” actors have Russian Wedding

    • FASHION:
    Switches on Secretary’s Suit – Eva Maria Saint’s outfit in a new movie makes a whole week’s wardrobe

    THEATER:

  • “True Limit!” Studies the Dilemma of Korean Turncoats

    • SCIENCE:

  • A new three-dimensional fabric – Trilok, puts to use the shrinking tendencies of a plastic

    • ART:

  • Reginald Marsh – Swarming City Scenes by a “U.S. Hogarth” Go On a Year-Long Tour of the Country

    • MOVIE:

  • A new star enlivens film revival of musical favorite, “Carousel”

    • ARCHITECTURE:

  • A Japanese hotel, its sixth story on tracks, spins its top

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Sculptor Noguchi transforms an African stool into modern furniture for teeterers

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: A Mirage in the Arctic
  • Miscellany: pedaling a fiddle

    • 1956-02-13 Life Magazine Contents

    1956/02/13 — Cover featuring Harry S. Truman and General Douglas MacArthur is credited to the U.S. Department of Defense

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

  • In Winter Olympics, Russians overshadow everyone but the one-man slam skier of Austria
  • A Look at the World’s Week
  • Balloon Goes Up and the Candidates Soar Among the Democrats
  • Washington Extends a Welcome for Old Friend Anthony Eden and Joins HIm in a Pledge for Peace
  • Perry Como ‘s Rapid Rise Arouses Gleason’s Network — And Jackie Gleason
  • An 8-year-old French Prodigy Settles a Furor By Writing a Poem

    • EDITORIAL:

  • A Hole in NATO’s Dyke

    • ARTICLES:

  • The Recall of General MacArthur – In Part 4 of the Memoirs of Harry Truman tells of clashes over policy that led to the recall when “I could no longer tolerate his insubordination”
  • General MacArthur Makes His Reply – He accuses Truman of “fallible” memory and dodging a court of inquiry by waiting until now to bring up “this belated claim of insubordination”

    • PICTORIAL ESSAYS:

  • Lusty art of a Lost People – Italy’s Ancient Etruscans come boldly to life in the works they left behind – Photographed for LIFE by Dmitri Kessel
  • What I like about Living in San Francisco – Written and Photographed for LIFE by N.R. Farbman

    • MOVIES:

  • Benny Goodman is heard but not seen as Steve Allen does the clarinetist’s story on film

    • ANIMALS:
    Wild beasts at a Milwaukee banquet help stock new zoo

    THEATER:

  • Artist Jacob Landau ‘s Drawings Form a Colorful background for Photos of Margaret Sullavan ‘s double life in “Janus”

    • NIGHTCLUBS:

  • Her club contract keeps Dancer Neile Adams from a big job

    • PARTY:

  • Brazil’s New President has a public palace-warming

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Speaking of Pictures: Rare photograph shows assassination plotters present at Lincoln’s inaugeration
  • Letters to the Editors
  • Miscellany: a draft aft

    • 1956-02-27 Life Magazine Contents

    1956/02/27 — Cover featuring Eskimo Family is credited to Fritz Goro

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

  • The U.S. Races for a Supermissile
  • A Look at the World’s Week
  • The verdict is able–is Eisenhower willing?
  • Adlai Stevenson Emerges from a Brush With Death
  • A stop and go order on arms for Arabia
  • The end of the rope for Englishmen
  • Grateful California towns say thank you to 4,000 GIs who saved them from total flood ruin

    • EDITORIAL:

  • The Real Farm Problem

    • PICTORIAL ESSAYS:

  • The Growing of Society – as the earth warmed at the end of the Ice Age, man set up communities on the sea and lake shore — Part 3 of The Epic of Man – Text by Lincoln Barnett

  • The World of Pooh Lives On — A.A. Milne, who died last month, leaves his magic to all childhood – 6-1/2 pages

    • ARTICLE:

  • How to ease the burdens of the world’s most burdensome job: the President’s illness points up the need to free his office from archaic superstructure and endless protocol – by Robert Coughlan

    • FASHION:

  • Dressed Up With Shorts – Palm Beach Society Helps Informal Outfits Off to a Sylish Start

    • MODERN LIVING:
    A Treasury of Old Tubbery – Display bares man’s quest fr cleanliness dating back to 500 B.C.

    THEATER:

  • Movie gangster Edward G. Robinson returns triumphantly to Broadway as a lovelorn widower

    • SPORTS:

  • Champion toy poodle wins the Westminster Dog Show top prize with his elegance and beauty

    • PARTY:

  • High glee at a political jubilee – Leader Hugh Gaitskell is life of party at big Labor Celebration

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Speaking of Pictures: A Whole Race at a Glance
  • Letters to the Editors
  • Miscellany: Trusting a Tomcat