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1946-01-21 Life Magazine Contents

1946/01/21 — Cover photograph featuring Cardinal Spellman is credited to Lisa Larsen

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

  • C.I.O. Forces Showdown With Industry
  • Editorial: Should We Be Optimistic?
  • French Mayor Unwillingly Marries French Veteran to German Girl
  • The True Emperor of Japan? by Richard E. Lauterbach features “Emperor” Hiromichi
  • Curley Inaugurated Fourth Time as Boston’s Mayor
  • “We Wanna Go Home” by Joe Weston
  • Two-Headed Baby Dies

  • Truman Gets a Big Yacht
  • Monte Carlo Tries to Make Comeback

    • ARTICLE:

  • What the Animals Were Up To by James Thurber – 5 pages (mostly half-pages) with drawings by Thurber as well

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Cardinal-Designate Spellman — Part 1 by Roger Butterfield

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • American Country

    • THEATER:

  • “Billion Dollar Baby”

    • MOVIES:

  • “Scarlet Street” Banned featuring Edward G Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea

    • SCIENCE:

  • Radiant Heating
  • Ultraviolet Tests

    • ART:

  • Millard Sheets Paints an Indian Village

    • SPORTS:

  • Wyoming Defeats Long Island in Basketball

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: These Show How DDT Kills a Mosquito
  • LIFE’s Reports: Man’s Stance Declines by Guy Richards
  • LIFE Goes to a College Stunt Night
  • Miscellany: California Family Makes Fortune Our of Flotsam
  • Beautiful full-page color ad for “The Bandit of Sherwood Forest” featuring Cornel Wilde

    • 1946-04-08 Life Magazine Contents

    1946/04/08 — Cover photograph featuring Clown Lou Jabobs is credited to Loomis Dean

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • Russia Walks Out on UNO Session
  • Editorial: How to Stop Inflation
  • Ex-Wrestling Champion Is Candidate in Japanese Election – Full-page photo of Sakata with his son, a paragraph of text on facing page
  • California Couple Gets Married on Horseback
  • U.A.W. Convention Elects Reuther President
  • Fathers and Sons Suffer Together for Murder
  • Bethanie Convent Turns Thieves Into Nuns
  • Tokyo Actors Give Japanese Version of “Abraham Lincoln”

    • ARTICLE:

  • Fan-Fare by Evelyn Waugh

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • A Year of Truman by Noel F. Busch

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Juvenile Delinquency

    • MOVIES:

  • “Vacation from Marriage”

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Flat Heels

    • ANIMALS:

  • Mockingbirds, Paintings for LIFE by Roger Tory Peterson

    • THEATER:

  • “Apple of His Eye”

    • SCIENCE:

  • Plastic Lenses

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Actress Parodies Movie Star’s Day
  • LIFE’s Reports: Army Requisitioning by Robert Neville
  • LIFE Visits the Circus in Florida
  • Half-page ad featuring Rita Hayworth in “Gilda”

    • 1946-04-22 Life Magazine Contents

    1946/04/22 — Cover featuring “Denver High School” is credited to Jerry Cooke

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • U.S. Army Suffers Disintegration
  • Editorial: Why Men Pray
  • Eight Familiar Prayers
  • Six Horses Finish in England’s Grand National
  • Rightists Win Greek Election
  • First Lady’s Bridge Club Meets at White House
  • Ex-GIs Settle Down in France

    • ARTICLE:

  • Cats by Roger Butterfield

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • David Burpee by Arthur Bartlett

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • U.S. High School

    • RELIGION:

  • Resurrection – A Poem by Francis Cardinal Spellman – Full page

    • ART:

  • The True Cross – 8 pages of beautiful color reproductions of paintings by Piero della Francesca

    • MOVIES:

  • “The Virginian”
  • Barbara Hale

    • SPORTS:

  • Baseball School

    • SCIENCE:

  • Ice Anesthesia

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Parable of the Confused Bear
  • LIFE’s Reports: Shanghailation by Richard E. Lauterbach
  • LIFE Follows the Route of Paul Revere
  • Miscellany: Koala vs. Anteater

    • 1946-04-29 Life Magazine Contents

    1946/04/29 — Cover photograph featuring Marble Pagoda in Peiping is credited to Dmitri Kessel

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

  • Russia Draws Iron Curtain Over Eastern Europe
  • Editorial: No Peace Yet
  • Mr. and Mrs. Mickey Rooney Attend Hollywood Premiere
  • Tokyo Mob Storms Premier’s House
  • Japanese Women Vote
  • Southpaw Truman Throws First Ball of Season

    • ARTICLE:

  • Mr. Blandings Builds His Castle by Eric Hodgins

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Manolete, Mexico’s Bullfighting Idol by William W. Johnson

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Peiping – Photographs for LIFE by Dmitri Kessel

    • MEDICINE:

  • Oklahoma City Venereal Survey

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Dipping Hemlines

    • THEATER:

  • “St. Louis Woman” featuring Pearl Bailey

    • NATURAL HISTORY:

  • Insect Battles

    • EDUCATION:

  • School for Southern Gentlewomen

    • AVIATION:

  • Radar Blind Landings

    • ART:

  • William Thon Paints Moody Pictures of the Sea

    • RADIO:

  • The Fat Man

    • MOVIES:

  • “The Postman Always Rings Twice” featuring Lana Turner and John Garfield

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Indiana Glamour Lambs
  • LIFE’s Reports: What People’s Names Mean
  • LIFE Goes to Nassau
  • Miscellany: California Steeplejack Climbs Chimney
  • Full-page color ad for Max Factor features bright image of Rita Hayworth

    • 1946-05-13 Life Magazine Contents

    1946/05/13 — Cover photograph featuring “Northwest Vacation” is credited to Jerry Cooke

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

  • Millions Die in China’s Famine – Photographs by George Silk
  • Editorial: On the Air
  • Bob Feller Pitches No-Hit Game – 1 page plus small paragraph of text, full page photo of Joe DiMaggio fouling off a Feller fastball
  • Four-Power Conference Meets in Paris
  • Serge Rubinstein Is Held in $500,000 Bail
  • Coal Strike Cripples Nation
  • GI Jailbreakers Battle Paris Police

    • ARTICLE:

  • America’s Germany by Julian Bach, Jr.

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Bob Crosby, King of the Cowboys by Claude Stanush

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Battlefields of Europe – Paintings by Ogden Pleissner

    • PARTY:

  • LIFE Takes a Fashion Trip to the Pacific Northwest

    • TRANSPORTATION:

  • Fiber-Glass Car – Bill Stout

    • RELIGION:

  • The American Cardinals – 4 pages in color

    • MOVIES:

  • Francie Pants – Frances Ramsden
  • “Two Sisters from Boston”

    • SCIENCE:

  • Rocket Motor

    • DANCE:

  • “Swan Lake” at the Bolshoi

    • SPORTS:

  • Herman Keiser Plays Pine Valley Course

    • EDUCATION:

  • Los Angeles Junior College
  • Full page color ad for “A Night in Casablanca” featuring the Marx Brothers
  • Full-page color ad for Royal Crown color features full length image of Lizabeth Scott

    • 1946-05-20 Life Magazine Contents

    1946/05/20 — Cover photograph featuring Ice Capades is credited to Bradley Smith

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

  • Black Markets Grip U.S.
  • Editorial: The World and John L.
  • White House Robin Hatches Three Eggs
  • Lewis Grants a Truce
  • Paris Conference Makes Small Progress
  • Nine-Year Old Swallows 18 Marbles
  • Nazi Women Get Fat in Prison
  • Train-Wreck Inquiry Shows Disaster Might Have Been Averted
  • Vermont Sorority Admits Negro

    • ARTICLE:

  • Tragedy of Liberalism by Joseph and Stewart Alsop

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Iran – 7 full pages, packed with photos

    • MOVIES:

  • Henry V with full-page color photo of star Laurence Olivier

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • New Chairs

  • Mainbocher is “Cheapest” Dressmaker

    • THEATER:

  • Ice Show

    • RADIO:

  • Television Tower – TV Tower on top of Empire State Building

    • SCIENCE:

  • Stutterers

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Boy Emulates Milo the Ox Lifter
  • LIFE Goes to an Ideal Children’s Party
  • Miscellany: Army Paper Finds Own Pin-up Girl
  • Full-page color ad for “Heartbeat” featuring full-length image of star Ginger Rogers

    • 1946-05-27 Life Magazine Contents

    1946/05/27 — Cover photograph featuring “Ozark Farmer” is credited to Kosti Ruohomaa

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

  • U.S. Tests Rockets in New Mexico – V-2s
  • Editorial: Why Kid Around?
  • Barbara Hutton Has Trouble at Ritz Front Door
  • Lord Halifax Bids Farewell to U.S.
  • Harvard Beauty Contest Is Sabotaged
  • The Ku Klux Klan Tries a Comeback – 3 pages of photos
  • Jap War Criminals Are Arraigned
  • U.S. Wives Arrive In Germany

    • ARTICLE:

  • Liquor by Francis Sill Wickware

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Lloyd C. Douglas by Noel F. Busch

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • India’s Leaders – Photographs for LIFE by Margaret Bourke-White – 7 pages including photos of Muhamed Ali Jinnah, Gandhi, Nehru, Patel, Sarojini Naidu, Rajagopalachari, Azad, P.C. Joschi

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Ball-Game Fashion Show

    • RADIO:

  • Commercial Television

    • SPORTS:

  • College Fishing Class

    • ART:

  • Phillip Guston

    • MUSIC:

  • Toscanini Returns to La Scala

    • AVIATION:

  • Sailplane Soaring

    • MOVIES:

  • “Cluny Brown” featuring Jennifer Jones

    • THEATER:

  • “Call Me Mister”

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Artist Converts Fashion Ads Into Animals
  • LIFE’s Reports: Marine in China by John Hersey
  • LIFE Visits the Ozarks
  • Miscellany: Will Rogers’ Boy

    • 1946-06-17 Life Magazine Contents

    1946/06/17 — Cover featuring Play Dresses is credited to Lisa Larsen

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • Chicago Hotel Fire Kills 60 People – La Salle Hotel
  • Editorial: Mr. Byrnes’s New Hand
  • Maritime Workers Listen to Union Official Talk Strike
  • Detroit Celebrates the Automobile’s 50 Anniversary
  • Umbrellas Shelter England’s Queen, Ensign’s Bride
  • French Build Europe’s Second Biggest Dam
  • Governor Warren of California Gets Two-Party Nomination
  • First Pictures Show Work on Atomic Pile

    • ARTICLES:

  • Existentialism by Bernard Frizell looks to be largely about Jean-Paul Sartre

  • The Boxing Racket by John Field and Earl Brown

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Auto’s First 50 Years – 7 pages, packed with photos including several from the 1890’s

    • RELIGION:

  • Kyoto’s Shrines

    • HOUSING:

  • Veterans Take Over Mansion

    • THEATER:

  • “Around the World”

    • ART:

  • N.C. Wyeth – 4 pages, 3 in full-color of paintings

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • The Pigtail Set
  • Play Dresses

    • MOVIES:

  • Double Davis – Bette Davis in A Stolen Life

    • SPORTS:

  • Nelson vs. Burton

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Cartoonist Blowzy Frauleins Offend Germans
  • LIFE’s Reports: GIs at Harvard b Charles J.V. Murphy
  • LIFE Goes to a Kansas Town’s Powwow
  • LIFE’s Miscellany: Brazilian Beach Game

    • 1946-08-05 Life Magazine Contents

    1946/08/05 — Cover photograph featuring Radio’s Juvenile Jury Participant is credited to Jerry Cooke

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

  • Across the Trans-Siberian Railroad by Richard Lauterbach
  • Editorial: The Veteran

  • People in the News

    • ARTICLE:

  • Mr. Mencken Sounds Off by Roger Butterfield – H.L. Mencken feature takes up parts of 5 pages

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Justin Dart by Robert Sellmer

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS:

  • New York by Night, Photographs by Andreas Feininger – 8 full pages, all in color
  • Summer Theater, Photographs by Eileen Darby

    • RADIO:

  • Juvenile Jury

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Waterfall Faucet

    • CUSTOMS:

  • Isle of Man

    • MOVIE:

  • “Night and Day” starring Cary Grant as Cole Porter

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Muscle Flexers Show Off at California Beach
  • LIFE’s Reports: Tarawa Today by Robert Sherrod
  • LIFE Visits the White Mountains
  • Miscellany: The Diaper Derby
  • Two-page color ad for Monsieur Beaucair starring Bob Hope

    • 1946-08-12 Life Magazine Contents

    1946/08/12 — Cover featuring Loretta Young is credited to Robert Landry

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • Blood Runs in Palestine Violence – 5 pages
  • Editorial: G.B.S. (George Bernard Shaw)
  • Boss Crump Rides Roller Coaster
  • Bolivian Revolt
  • “Baker Day” at Bikini
  • Midsummer: Jones Beach
  • Tourists

    • ARTICLE:

  • Confidence Games

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Frank Lloyd Wright – 8 pages, each of which is half-filled with the article, half with ads

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • “The Razor’s Edge” – Story of a single scene shows how Maugham’s novel is translated into a $3,000,000 movie – Photographs for LIFE by Ralph Crane – 9 pages

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Loretta Young’s Nightgowns – 10 color photos of Loretta Young modelling spread over 2 pages

    • NATURAL HISTORY:

  • How a Rattlesnake Strikes
  • Butterflies – Includes 4 full pages of color illustrations

    • NIGHTCLUBS:

  • Peter Lind Hayes

    • MOVIE:

  • Atomic Power

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Weegee Photographs A Corpse
  • LIFE’s Reports: The Isophone
  • LIFE Goes to a Party: St. Louis Debs
  • LIFE’s Miscellany: Shriners’ Convention
  • Full page black & white ad for Ernest Hemingway’s “The Killers” with images of Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner

    • 1946-08-19 Life Magazine Contents

    1946/08/19 — Cover photograph featuring Old Faithful is credited to Alfred Eisenstaedt

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

  • Peacemakers Wrangle
  • Editorial: Palestine
  • California Bowling Alley Murder
  • Truman Purges Stubborn Congressman – Jim Pendergast
  • Gambling Ship
  • Florida Girls Go West for Beauty Contest
  • Father Divine Takes New Wife
  • Brooklyn Bear Works in Radio – Lew Lehr and Rosie the Bear

    • ARTICLE:

  • Thank you, Mr. President by Merriman Smith

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Harold Laski by John Chamberlain

    • HISTORY:

  • The Lees of Virginia – Includes 4 pages of color reproductions of paintings of the Lees, 4 to a page, except Robert E. Lee who has a page to himself

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Yellowstone, Photographs by Alfred Eisenstaedt – 7 pages

    • SPORTS:

  • Water Skiers Compete in National Championship

    • ART:

  • Summer School Art

    • SCIENCE:

  • Russian Scientists Conduct Heart Experiments

    • MOVIES:

  • “The Strange Love of Martha Ivers” opens with large photo of Lizabeth Scott, plus Barbara Stanwyck, Kirk Douglas pics

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Methodists Conduct “Play Party Games”
  • LIFE’s Reports: Blind Golfer by Allen Rankin
  • LIFE Visits a German University
  • Color ad for “Caesar and Cleopatra” featuring Vivien Leigh
  • Half-page ad for Springmad Fabrics features illustration of The Springmaid by George Petty

    • 1946-09-09 Life Magazine Contents

    1946/09/09 — Cover photograph featuring Jane Powell is credited to Martha Holmes

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

  • U.S. Zippers Up Its Fleet
  • Editorial: What’s the Score?

  • Mrs. Roosevelt Shows Her New Teeth
  • The Vultures of Calcutta Eat Indian Dead
  • Evatt Answers Question: What Is Democracy?

  • GIs Play Mikado in Tokyo

  • Beef Rush Hits Chicago
  • Bathing Girls Controversy Continues
  • Goal Heaver Turns Monkey Man
  • Gazelle Boy Is Captured

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Molotov and Vishinsky by John Osborne

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Easier Housekeeping

    • INTERVIEW:

  • What’s Funny About George Allen by Roger Butterfield

    • SPORTS:

  • Boston Baseball – Opens with large black & white photo of Ted Williams sitting in an oversized chair with oversized bat and ball
  • Children’s Judo

    • RELIGION:

  • Senator’s Tobey’s Hymn Sing

    • ARCHAEOLOGY:

  • Digging in Arizona

    • ENTERTAINMENT:

  • Carnival

    • MOVIES:

  • “Holiday in Mexico”
  • Jane Powell by Jeanne Perkins

    • ANIMALS:

  • Man Wears Bees

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • The “Natch”

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • LIFE’s Reports: Oak Ridge by Francis Sill WicKware
  • Speaking of Pictures: Wild Duck Photography
  • Letters to the Editors
  • LIFE Visits the Sikhs of India
  • LIFE’s Miscellany: Delsarte Pantomimes
  • Full-page color ad for RC Cola features large image of Hedy Lamarr

    • 1946-09-23 Life Magazine Contents

    1946/09/23 — Cover photograph featuring Dachshund is credited to Frank Scherschel

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

  • U.S. Success Story 1938- 1946 — Auto Dealer Romy Hammes, Whom “LIFE” Looked at in 1938, Is Not Going Like a House Afire
  • Editorial: Send Them Here! – Europe’s Refugees Need a Place to Go and America Needs to Set a World Example

  • Attlee Dedicates Steppingstones
  • London Squatters Seize Houses
  • Sailboat Refugees Arrive
  • Monty Visits Washington

  • Tito Returns U.S. Dead
  • Hunt Travels by Airplane
  • Byrnes Speaks on Germany
  • George Washington Hill Dies
  • Mussolini Family
  • A Blind Boy Sees

    • ARTICLE:

  • Does Europe Face a Holy War? by Paul Hutchinson

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Ted Williams by John Chamberlain – Feature article takes up parts of 8-pages

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • The Human Look

    • RADIO:

  • Mercedes McCambridge

    • BOOKS:

  • “American Child”

    • THEATER:

  • “The Front Page”

    • EDUCATION:

  • Princeton

    • SPORTS:

  • Pro Football
  • Tennis Championships

    • NATURAL HISTORY:

  • Dahlias
  • Cormorant Fishing

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Tailor-Made Furniture

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • LIFE’s Reports: Afghans Go American by David Richardson
  • Speaking of Pictures: Dachshund Roughhouses With Cat
  • Letters to the Editors
  • LIFE Goes to a Hollywood South Seas Party
  • Miscellany: Cows in Hitler’s Garden
  • Two-page color ad for Irving Berlin’s Blue Skies starring Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire and Joan Caulfield
  • Two-page color ad for Chris Craft Motor Boats
  • Champ Hats full-page ad with large Willard Mullin illustration of Sid Luckman

    • 1946-10-07 Life Magazine Contents

    1946/10/07 — Cover photograph featuring Bing Crosby and Joan Caulfield is credited to Nina Leen

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

  • Oldest Human Bones Arrive in the U.S.
  • Editorial: Shall We Have a Depression?
  • Truman is Caricatured by Friend
  • Zale Wins Years Best Fight – Tony Zale beats Rocky Graziano in their classic first encounter, includes full-page photo of knockout and smaller action pics from during the fight
  • Ambasador John Leighton Stuart Raises U.S. Hopes in China
  • Students Are Crowding U.S. School Facilities
  • Bikini Goat Gets Trasfusion

    • ARTICLE:

  • Taft and Vandenberg by Joseph and Stewart Alsop

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Horse Opera – Western Movies Maintain Their Traditions, Popularity and Profits – with photos of Sunset Carson and others over 7 pages

    • THEATER:

  • The Critics Versus the Playwrights

    • SCIENCE:

  • Personality Tests

    • SPORTS:

  • Game Bird Shooting, Paintings by Ogden Pleissner

    • SHORT STORY:

  • Once Aboard the “Reluctant” by Thomas Heggen

    • MEDICINE:

  • 710-Pound Youth – 20 Year Old Robert Earl Hughes – 1 large photo that’s appx. 5/6 of the page in size, 4 smaller pics each about a quarter-page

    • NATURAL HISTORY:

  • Japanese Miniature Trees

    • MOVIES:

  • “Blue Skies” with Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire and Joan Caulfield

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Shoes to Match

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • LIFE’s Reports
  • Speaking of Pictures: Jefferson Machamer Tells Why Cartooning Is Easy
  • Letters to the Editors
  • LIFE Visits a Country School of Photography
  • LIFE’s Miscellany: Fun at the Piano

    • 1946-10-21 Life Magazine Contents

    1946/10/21 — Cover photograph featuring Gloria Grahame is credited to George Strock

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

  • The 1946 Campaign
  • Editorial: The American Woman
  • Churchill Rides a Circus Horse
  • Bride Dies on Steps of Church

  • Peace Conference Finds Minor Harmonies
  • Hungry Housewife Fails to Get Meat
  • U.S. Couple Adopts French Village

    • ARTICLE:

  • The Fight for Germany by Reinhold Neibuhr

    • BOOKS:

  • “So This Is Peace” by Bob Hope

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS:

  • Windsor Castle – 5 pages, 4 of them in color
  • Booming Houston

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Brogan Clothes

    • MOVIES:

  • Gloria Grahame
  • “The Dark Mirror” starring Olivia de Havilland in a dual role

    • MUSIC:

  • Top Song Hits – With photos and brief write-ups of Ethel Merman, Paula Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Betty Garrett, Perry Como, Dick Haymes, Ella Fitzgerald (all small quarter-page pics, except Merman which is a little larger)

    • SPORTS:

  • Guarded Race Horses

    • AVIATION:

  • New Freight Planes

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • LIFE’s Reports: The Monsters of Valais by Henry Tanner
  • Speaking of Pictures: Eisenstaedt Has His Picture Taken
  • Letters to the Editors
  • LIFE Visits a Billionaire’s CLub
  • LIFE’s Miscellany: Magicians’ Wives
  • Coca-Cola ad on back cover — “Join the Club Around the Corner…Admission 5 Cents”

    • 1946-11-11 Life Magazine Contents

    1946/11/11 — Cover featuring High School model Shirley Arnow is credited to Peter Stackpole

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • The Road Back to Berlin
  • Editorial: “Our Germans”
  • Legislator Starts Sit Down Strike
  • Moslems Stone Nehru
  • Indiana Girl Skates on Toes
  • British Rabbits Walk on Two Feet
  • A Mountbatten Marries
  • French Sculptor Builds New Car
  • People
  • Vienna Cathedral Rises Again – St. Stephans

    • ARTICLE:

  • The Atomic Stakes by John K. Jessup

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Lindsay and Crouse by Lincoln Barnett

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS:

  • Big Steel’s Men

    • RADIO:

  • New Tricks for an Old Dog

    • TRANSPORTATION:

  • Truck Roadeo

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Amateur Models

    • MOVIES:

  • Elisofon in Hollywood – Opens with a full-page color photo of Lana Turner – next, full-page color photo of Hedy Lamarr – Next, 4 color photos on a page featuring: Marie McDonald – Maureen O’Hara – Esther Williams – Ginger Rogers – Next, full-page color photo of Lizabeth Scott – All beautiful photographs
  • “The Chase”

    • SPORTS:

  • Cherokee Stickball

    • BOOKS:

  • Gertrude Atherton Writes Her 56th Book

    • EDUCATION:

  • Army School for the Blind

    • SCIENCE:

  • Rochelle Salt Crystals

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • LIFE’s Reports: Lop for President by Bernard Frizell
  • Speaking of Pictures: Noguchi Makes Weird Sculptures
  • Letters to the Editors
  • LIFE Calls On a King for a Day
  • LIFE’s Miscellany: Handbag Equipment
  • Full-page color ad for Walt Disney’s Song of the South

    • 1946-12-09 Life Magazine Contents

    1946/12/09 — Cover photograph featuring “Jet Pilot” is credited to Charles Steinheimer

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

  • Plane Crash Survivors Rescued in Alps
  • Editorial: Labor and the Law
  • RFC Carries On
  • Coal Strike Deepens
  • U.S. Sergeant Runs Bremen Boys Club
  • “Normandie” Makes Her Last Trip
  • St. Paul Teachers Strike
  • Japanese War Plans Are Revealed

    • ARTICLES:

  • Gastronomy by Bernard Frizell
  • The Huey Long Legend by Hamilton Basso

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • P-80s – Photographs by Charles Steinheimer – 8 pages

    • SCIENCE:

  • Nazi Scientists in U.S.

    • THEATER:

  • “Another Part of the Forest”

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Christmas Trimmings

    • SPORTS:

  • Top Kicker – Lou Groza

    • HOUSING:

  • Cinderella Girl

    • MOVIES:

  • “Stairway to Heaven”

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Cartoonist Dahl Ribs Boston
  • LIFE’s Reports: Notes from Sweden by Wilfrid Fleisher
  • LIFE Calls on a Retired General
  • LIFE’s Miscellany: Hollywood Dunking

    • 1946-12-16 Life Magazine Contents

    1946/12/16 — Cover featuring Teresa Wright is credited to Philippe Halsman

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • Atlanta Has Worst Hotel Fire in U.S. History
  • Editorial: Russia By Thirds
  • Wilson Wyatt Quits
  • Bilbo Faces Senate Hearing
  • Etonians Play Traditional Wall Game
  • Mexican President is Inaugurated
  • New York’s Rookie Cops Graduate
  • Oakland Has General Strike
  • Lewis Fined for Contempt

  • Mexicans Find Lost Bones of Cortez

    • ARTICLE:

  • Colds by Francis Sill Wickware

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Boer Farmer

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Jet Furnace
  • Paper Doll Girls

    • DANCE:

  • Balmy Ballerina – Iva Kitchell

    • NATURAL HISTORY:

  • Frog’s Eyelid

    • MOVIES:

  • “The Best Years of Our Lives” – Includes about a page of text (spread over 2 pages) with 2 photos of Harold Russell

    • ART:

  • William Hogarth

    • ECONOMICS:

  • The Redistribution of U.S. Wealth

    • RADIO:

  • Radio Jingles

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Trick Mirror Shows Human Conceits
  • LIFE’s Reports: Unrra in Poland
  • LIFE Visits an American Girl in France
  • LIFE’s Miscellany: Baboon Trap

    • 1947-07-14 Life Magazine Contents

    1947/07/14 — Cover featuring Elizabeth Taylor is credited to Robert Landry

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

  • Catholics Hold Huge Congress in Canada
  • Editorial: The Break in Europe
  • Texans Watch Tornado Approach Their Town
  • Japanese War Criminals
  • Escaped Steer Terrifies Neighborhood
  • Herriot Squeezes Into French Academy Uniform

    • ARTICLES:

  • An Afternoon at Ascot by Noel F. Busch
  • How Russia Rules Poland by Arthur Bliss Lane

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • June Wedding – Photographs for LIFE by Nina Leen

    • TRANSPORTATION:

  • The Executive Bus

    • SCIENCE:

  • Sunburn

    • FOOD:

  • Summer Cooking

    • DANCE:

  • Mother Zorina Leaps

    • ART:

  • Painter’s Summer

    • EDUCATION:

  • How Not to Ride a Bicycle in Traffic

    • MOVIES:

  • “Ivy” featuring Joan Fontaine
  • Elizabeth Taylor – At 15, She Has Grown into a Top Ingenue – Just a single page

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Greeks Still Look Like Their Forbears
  • People – Includes large photo of Evita Peron, smaller photo of muscle-man Steve Reeves
  • LIFE’s Party: Americans Live High in Rome
  • Miscellany: The Great Oregon Beauty Controversy
  • 2-page color ad for Calvert Collins with large illustration by Tom Lovell
  • Colorful full-page Budweiser ad “Fine Beer Has Beena Symbol of Hospitality for 8,000 Years” with five horizontal scenes through the ages

    • 1947-09-22 Life Magazine Contents

    1947/09/22 — Cover featuring Fall Fashions is credited to Nina Leen.

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

  • “Exodus” Refugees End Tragic Voyage
  • Editorial: The Marshall Plan: Our Move Next
  • Rows of Plowed Earth Stop a Prairie Fire
  • St. Peters Crowd Hears Pope Speak
  • Sale of Dore Paintings Runs Into Difficulties
  • Tennis Peepers See National Singles
  • “I Spy” Moulton Reports on Adult Delinquency
  • No-Account Dragon of Furth Is Killed Again

    • ARTICLES:

  • Balance of Power by Dewitt C. Poole
  • English Ghosts by Noel F. Busch

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • LIFE Presents a Review of Fall Fashions

    • SPORTS:

  • Tuna Tournament

    • BOOKS:

  • Thoreau’s Walden

    • MOVIES:

  • Alida Valli
  • “Kiss of Death” starring Victor Mature and Richard Widmark

    • SCIENCE:

  • How Homing Pigeons Find Their Way

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Two-Minute Car Washer

    • ART:

  • Cracow’s Carvings

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • LIFE’s Reports: Australia Wants the GI’s Back by Robert Sherrod
  • Speaking of Pictures: Nebraska Trimmer Makes Tree Menagerie
  • Letters to the Editors
  • People: Last Indian Scouts Retire
  • LIFE Goes to An Oldsters’ Outing
  • Amphibious Feline
  • Champ Hats ad features Sid Luckman by Willard Mullin
  • Lucky Strike Cigarettes ad with painting by David Stone Martin on the Back Cover

    • 1949-04-04 Life Magazine Contents

    1949/04/04 — Cover photograph featuring Paul G. Hoffman of the ECA is credited to Yousuf Karsh.

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

  • Red Visitors Cause Rumpus

    • Editorials:

  • Pacific Retreat
  • Nickel Beer
  • Hippopotamus Joyfully Greets Prospective Mate
  • The Great Finnish Wolf Hunt

  • “Mr. Kelly” Wins an Election – about Henri Queuille of France

  • Jack Benny Tries TV
  • Future King of Sweden Plays in the Snow

    • CLOSE-UPS:

  • Wishbone Harris and the Town Wave by Percy Knauth

  • Paul Hoffman by Noel F. Busch

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Spain – Photographs for LIFE by Dmitri Kessel

    • SPORTS:

  • Vince Foster Sequel

    • EDUCATION:

  • After Ten Years – C.C.N.Y. Alumni gather to read prophecies they made as seniors in 1939

    • ART:

  • Ithaca Paints – A lusty, fast growing enthusiasm for art transforms the whole town into a gallery

    • ENTERTAINMENT:

  • Circus Gets Ready

    • DANCE:

  • Hyderabad Dancers

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Blue Ribbon Cook
  • The Lakeliner

    • THEATER:

  • Spring Farces

    • MUSIC:

  • The Singing Combo Comes Back, with large photo of Peggy Lee and Dean Martin

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • LIFE’s Reports: “Dokumenty Tovarish!” by Vladimir Petrov
  • Speaking of Pictures: A Mass Negro Baptism
  • Letters to the Editors
  • People
  • LIFE Goes to the St. George;s Society Ball

    • Notable advertising includes: Gary Cooper and Teresa Wright in “The Pride of the Yankees”, Esther Williams with Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly in “Take Me Out to the Ball Game”, Yvonne de Carlo for Jolene Shoes (in color), and a Coca-Cola ad on back cover.

    1949-04-11 Life Magazine Contents

    1949/04/11 — Cover photograph featuring “Spring Along the Mississippi” is credited to Loomis Dean.

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

  • War in Burma
  • Editorial: The Atlantic Alliance

  • Russian Skater Hits Jackpot of Medals

  • Improper Bostonians Mob a Bargain Sale (at Filene’s)
  • Churchill Speaks in Boston

  • Wanderlust in California

  • Miss New Orleans Gets Public Paddling – Barbara Jean Cauthen bites husbands leg as he spanks her

  • Chinese Troops Train on Formosa

  • Shetland Festival

  • “Doctor Frank” Becomes a Senator
  • Casualty of Winter

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Spring on the Mississippi – Photographs for LIFE by Andreas Feininger

    • ARTICLE:

  • Divorce Court by Joe McCarthy

    • MEDICINE:

  • New Test Detects Cold Germs

    • MOVIES:

  • “Champion” with Kirk Douglas, includes a full-page photo of Douglas, plus pics with Ruth Roman, Marilyn Maxwell, and Lola Albright

    • EDUCATION:

  • One-Man Literacy Crusade – about Frank C. Laubach

    • CULTURE:

  • High-brow, Low-brow, Middle-brow – These are three basic categories of a new U.S. social structure, and the high-brows have the whip hand, with chart of their preferences

    • ART:

  • “The Rock” by Peter Blume, in color over 1-1/2 pages

    • MUSIC:

  • New York City Opera
  • Strange Sounding Names

    • HOUSING:

  • Glamourized Houses

    • TELEVISION:

  • Texas Station

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Ballplayers and Ballerina Have a Lot In Common
  • LIFE’s Reports: Visit to Evita Peron by John Dos Passos
  • People
  • LIFE Calls on Bernard Berenson

    • Notable advertising includes: Little Lulu for Kleenex, actor John Loder in color for Lord Calvert, Gail Russell for RC Cola, Mr. and Mrs. Edward G. Robinson in color for Pabst Blue Ribbon, and an ad for Camel Cigarettes on back cover features billiards greats Willie Mosconi and Willie Hoppe.

    1949-04-25 Life Magazine Contents

    1949/04/25 — Cover photograph featuring “Paris Fashions” is credited to Gordon Parks.

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

  • Millions See Moon in Rare Total Eclipse

    • Editorials

  • Right to Hear
  • Brannan’s Plan
  • Italian Fascists Reappear
  • Pacific Northwest Has Its Worst Earthquake
  • White Russian Odyssey Reaches Philippines
  • Man Has a Merry Week
  • Seventy Farmers Prove to Be Good Neighbors
  • Military Union Is Being Perfected at Fontainebleau

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • The Trust Territory – Photographs for LIFE by Eliot Elisofon – Its 2,130 Islands form a new US domain in the Pacific

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Morgan the Great by Frederick Lewis Allen about J.P. Morgan

    • SCIENCE:

  • Mechanical Miner

    • TELEVISION:

  • The Goldbergs March On
  • Milton’s Marathon

    • FASHION:

  • Paris Styles

    • ANIMALS:

  • Hazford Rupert LXXXI – The grand old man of Hereford Bulls sired a family woirth over $1 Million
  • White Beaver

    • TRANSPORTATION:

  • The Talgo

    • SPORTS:

  • Gorgeous Gussie about #4 ranked tennis player Gussie Moran

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • LIFE’s Reports: Pieter’s X-Ray Eyes by Robert Deindorfer
  • Speaking of Pictures: US “Court Photographer” Has Some Historic Photos
  • Letters to the Editors
  • LIFE Visits the Lettuce Box

    • Notable advertising includes: two-page color illustrated ad featuring Bing Crosby and Rhonda Fleming in “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court”, half-page Cream of Kentucky Whiskey ad illustrated by Norman Rockwell, and an ad for Chesterfield Cigarettes on back cover features Joan Crawford.

    1945-03-12 Life Magazine Contents

    1945/03/12 — Cover photograph featuring General William Simpson is credited to William Vandivert

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

  • Allies Drive for the Rhine
  • Editorial: U.S. Armed Might
  • Commander Stassen Confers with Governor Dewey
  • The Curfew Dims the Nightclubs
  • Marines, Win Bloody, Barren Sands of Iwo
  • President Speaks

    • ARTICLES:

  • Europe Wants Freedom from Shame by G.A. Borgese
  • The Atolls by John Dos Passos

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • “Ivan the Terrible” Is New Soviet Movie

    • MOVIES:

  • Actress Takes 12-1/2 Hour Bubble Bath – Featuring Lucille Bremer

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Eisenhower Jacket Starts New Fad
  • Sweden Has Model Apartments

    • ANIMALS:

  • New York Enforces Humane Fox Trapping

    • SCIENCE:

  • Glass

    • RADIO:

  • Crosby, Hope & Sinatra Do Radio “Dick Tracy”

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: England’s Pillboxes Look Like Other Things
  • LIFE’s Reports: GI Crime in France by Mary Welsh
  • LIFE Goes Over the Stillwell Road
  • Miscellany: Fun at the Dentist’s
  • Full page black & white ad for “The Clock” with Judy Garland and Robert Walker
  • Coca Cola ad on back cover

    • 1945-03-19 Life Magazine Contents

    1945/03/19 — Cover photograph featuring Dutch Girl is credited to George Rodger

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

  • The Germans Crumble in the West
  • Editorial: Chapultepec
  • Conference Delegates Attend Mexican Presidential Reception
  • New York Law Bans Job Descrimination
  • U.S. Fliers Bomb Berchtesgaden and Tokyo
  • Chinese Eggs Stand on End
  • Grable Baby is 1 – One page w/large photo of Betty Grable and Harry James with their daughter
  • Brazilian Indians Attack Plane

    • ARTICLE:

  • Ibn Saud ‘s Voyage by Ensign W. Barry McCarthy, USNR

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • The Earl of Halifax by John Chamberlain

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Flooded Dutch Island

    • SPORTS:

  • West Point Has Best Teams in U.S.

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Dache Makes Surplus WAC Hats Chic

    • ART:

  • Feliks Topolski Sketches the War

    • NATURE:

  • Spring Wildflowers

    • MOVIE:

  • “The Picture of Dorian Gray”

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Soldier Cartoonist Draws WAC Heroine
  • LIFE’s Reports: Captured Book Gives Nazi View of U.S.
  • LIFE Goes to a Military Ball
  • Miscellany: Admiral Halsey Goes Hunting