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1943-08-02 Life Magazine Contents

1943/08/02 — Cover photograph featuring British Admiral Sir Max Kennedy Horton is uncredited

Contents of this issue are as follows:

THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • The Invasion of Sicily
  • Editorial
  • Alarm Clock Sale
  • Women in Trouble
  • MacArthur Lock
  • MacArthur-for-President Club

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Admiral Sir Max Horton by Richard Wilcox

    • ART:

  • Tom Lea Paints the Last Day of the “Hornet”

    • SCIENCE:

  • Quartz Crystals

    • AVIATION:

  • Army Air Forces Mark Two Birthdays

    • WAR LIVING:

  • Kid Clothes – Big Girls in Little Girls’ Clothes

    • MOVIES:

  • “The Constant Nymph” with Charles Boyer, Joan Fontaine and Joyce Reynolds

    • THEATER:

  • American Hits in London

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Emett’s Cartoons from Punch
  • LIFE Goes to a Party With Tombstone Hounds
  • Pictures to the Editors
  • Coca-Cola ad on back cover

    • 1943-08-09 Life Magazine Contents

    1943/08/09 — Cover featuring Steelworker is credited to Margaret Bourke-White

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

  • Italy: includes sections titled “Italy Looks in Desparation for a Strong Man”, “The Bombing of Rome” with aerial maps, “Modern History of Italy Beings With Four Patriots and a Revolt in 1848”, “Napoleon III Was Midwife at Birth of United Italy Led By the House of Savoy”, “The Dictators: Mussolini and Hitler had their fun but they will have to pay for it”, “Italian Cities Present World’s Best Stage Set for Great and Sad Deeds”. In all this section runs from pages 15 – 27.
  • Editorial: Jobs for Veterans
  • Strange Case of John Durfee

    • ARTICLE:

  • Adventure in Sicily by Jack Belden

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • “Flip Corkin” by John Bainbridge

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Women in Steel – runs from pages 74-81

    • AGRICULTURE:

  • The Speed of Growing Corn

    • ARMY:

  • Negro Division
  • Col. Lovelace’s Record Parachute Jump

    • POSTWAR LIVING:

  • Kitchens of Tomorrow

    • THEATER:

  • “The Army Play by Play”

    • MOVIES:

  • Lucille Ball in Technicolor — Hollywood Cameramen and Technicians Acclaim Lucille Ball as Best Subject for Color Films

    • MEDICINE:

  • Curare

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Servicemen Pick Hollywood Favorites with small photos of Gene Tierney, Veronica Lake, Betty Grable, Maureen O’Hara, Rita Hayworth and several others
  • LIFE Visits Chicago Servicemen’s Country Club
  • Pictures to the Editors

    • 1943-08-16 Life Magazine Contents

    1943/08/16 — Cover photograph featuring “Japanese Soliders” is credited to Paul Dorsey

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • How the Russians Took Orel
  • Editorial
  • The Baukmillers Strike It Rich
  • Death in a Glider
  • Harlem Riot
  • The Strange Case of John Bovingdon
  • Senators Go Global

    • ARTICLE:

  • P-38 by William P. Gray

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Andrew Jackson Higgins by Gilbert Burck

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC DEBATE:

  • How Strong Is Japan? – 13 pages

    • WAR LIVING:

  • Paris and New York Styles

    • NIGHT CLUB:

  • Folies Bergere

    • NATURAL HISTORY:

  • Low-Tide Life

    • SPORTS:

  • “Balloon Ball” Pitcher Sewell

    • MOVIE:

  • Starlets in “Our Hearts Were Young and Gay”

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Japanese Earthquake
  • LIFE’s Reports: Alaska Has No Ceilings by Robert Sherrod
  • LIFE Visits an Air Force Rest Home in England
  • Pictures to the Editors

    • 1943-08-30 Life Magazine Contents

    1943/08/30 — Cover photograph featuring Anthony Eden with his dog Nipper is credited to David E. Scherman

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • Where Do We Go From Here? – Churchill and Roosevelt Meet in Quebec to Work Out Some Answers; What Follows the Sicilian Victory?; The Battle for Troina; Hitler’s Best – New Type of German Soldier Met His Defeat in Sicily; Ploesti Raid
  • Editorial: Four Years – Since Sept. 1, 1939 Our “Information” Has Declined But Our “Enlightenment” Has Increased

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Anthony Eden by Noel F. Busch

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • MIssouri River

    • FOREIGN AFFAIRS:

  • The Victoria Cross

    • SCIENCE:

  • Spiders Spin Thread for Gunsights – Black Widows

    • THEATER:

  • Summer Successes on Broadway

    • MOVIE:

  • “Heaven Can Wait”

    • BOOKS:

  • c/o Postmaster, by Cpl. Thomas R. St. George

    • WAR LIVING:

  • Farm Kids Produce Food for Fighting Nations

    • AVIATION:

  • Precision Bombing

    • MUSIC:

  • Songs the Soliders Sing – With 12 small photos of Celeste Holm singing

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • LIFE’s Reports: The Capital’s Cabbies by A.B.C. Whipple
  • Speaking of Pictures: Aircraft Carrier Signals
  • LIFE Visits Shangri-La
  • Pictures to the Editors
  • Coca-Cola ad on back cover features a solider with caption “That Extra Something! … You can spot it every time”

    • 1943-09-06 Life Magazine Contents

    1943/09/06 — Cover photograph featuring American Soldiers Hunting Japanese (titled “Jap Hunters” on front cover) is credited to William Shrout

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • Industry at War
  • Editorial
  • Dog & Bone
  • Sicilian Cleanup
  • Tomato Crisis
  • “Know Your Endorser” Campaign – Check Forgery
  • Capitol Cleanup

    • ARTICLE:

  • Republican Renascence by Russell W. Davenport

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Folk Singer John Jacob Niles by Roger Butterfield

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • The Chicken Business

    • ARMY:

  • Munda Airport
  • Air Transport Command Base

    • THEATER:

  • “Good Night Ladies!” with Stuart Erwin, Lucia Sargent, Peggy Drake, Skeets Gallagher

    • ART:

  • Greenland at War by Artists Norman Thomas and Ben Wolf

    • NATURAL HISTORY:

  • Zoo Animals and Offspring

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Collage
  • LIFE’s Reports: Rumors from Germany
  • LIFE Gives Fashion Show at Halloran Hospital
  • Pictures to the Editors

    • 1943-09-13 Life Magazine Contents

    1943/09/13 — Cover photograph featuring Leotards in Fashion is credited to Nina Leen

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • Allied Landing on Kiska
  • Editorial: Arturo Toscanini ‘s Plea to the American People
  • Maestro Toscanini at Home
  • Joe Louis Tour of Army Camps
  • Highest U.S. Railroad
  • Parachute-Jumping Dog
  • Congressman Schwabe and the Home Folks

    • ARTICLE:

  • America and the Future — Part1: Our Domestic Economy — by John K. Jessup

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Sikh Maheraja by William Fisher

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Weather

    • ARMY:

  • Last Mission of a Fortress

    • WAR LIVING:

  • College Fashions
  • Wartime Prayers

    • MOVIES:

  • “Watch on the Rhine” starring Paul Lukas and Bette Davis

    • ART:

  • Constantin Alajalov ‘s Illustrations for Cinderella

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • LIFE’s Reports: The Midwest’s Mood — Part 1 by Eliot Janeway
  • Speaking of Pictures: Hollywood’s Shapliest “Shadow Girl”
  • LIFE Goes House Painting
  • Pictures to the Editors

  • The Springs Cotton Mills full-page ad with SpringMaid drawn in black & white by James Montgomery Flagg

    • 1943-09-20 Life Magazine Contents

    1943/09/20 — Cover featuring Cambridge don Charles Seltman is credited to Hans Wild.

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • Surrender of Italy – large section (page 25-33) with text, photos, maps and a recap
  • Editorial: Three Americans
  • American Dead at Buna
  • G.O.P. at Mackinac
  • Churchill at Harvard University
  • Railroad Wrecks
  • Paraguay Inauguration
  • Archbishop Spellman’s Travels

    • ARTICLE:

  • America and the Future, part 2 by John K. Jessey

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Carlson of the Raiders by Don Burke

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Cambridge University

    • ART:

  • Cleveland Museum

    • SCIENCE:

  • Mosquitoes

    • MOVIES:

  • Glamazons

    • NIGHT CLUB:

  • Latin Quarter with photos of Harrison & Fisher, the Christiani Family, The Gaudsmith Brothers, and Georgie Price.

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • LIFE’s Reports: The Midwest’s Mood – Part 2 by Eliot Janeway
  • Speaking of Pictures: First Newsreels
  • LIFE Goes on a Canoe Picnic
  • Pictures to the Editors

    • Notable advertising includes: Farnsworth Television which looks more like a security camera for production plants, color ad for Chesterfield Cigarettes featuring stars of “So Proudly We Hail” Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard and Veronica Lake, Elyse Knox for Canon Hosiery, “Have a Coke = Welcome, Friends … or how to get along in Alaska” is a Coca-Cola ad with color illustration by Frank Godwin, “If War Gas Falls from the sky … He’ll Be Ready!” is a pretty creepy ad from Scotch Tape, “This is the Shopper of Blue Ribbon Town .. who has put on her slacks and discarded her gown” is a full-page color ad from Pabst Blue Ribbon with art by Robert O’Reiz, “Salute to the Marines” starring Wallace Beery, Budweiser, color ad for James Cagney in “Johnny Come Lately”, Claudette Colbert in color for North Star, Imperial Whiskey on the inside back cover features and Albert Staehle illustration of a crocodile coming out of the water after a duck, and a Camel Cigarettes ad is on the back cover. NOTE: An * denotes ad is smaller than a full-page.

    1943-09-27 Life Magazine Contents

    1943/09/27 — Cover photograph featuring Harvester is credited to Gordon Coster

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • Battle of Salerno

  • Editorial
  • Guadalcanal Road Sign
  • Fighting Roosevelt Family
  • In the Ruins of Bombed London
  • Navy’s New Fighter Plane, the Hellcat
  • Rebuilding of Stalingrad
  • 100th Anniversary of Marcus Whitman’s Famous Ride

    • ARTICLES:

  • “Hey Soldier, I’m Wounded” by Jack Belden
  • Soldiers Still Sing by Lilian Rixey
  • Letter from Home by John Field

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Metro-Goldwyn Mayer – 16 page MGM Photo-Essay

    • ARMY:

  • Foot Exercises for Wacs
  • The “Bazooka”

    • SCIENCE:

  • Relics from Old Indian Cave

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • LIFE’s Reports: Washington Hospitality? by Ray Mackland
  • Speaking of Pictures: Night Bombers Sky
  • LIFE Visits the Harvesters of America
  • Pictures to the Editors

    • 1943-10-04 Life Magazine Contents

    1943/10/04 — Cover photograph featuring US Ambassador to governments-in-exile Anthony Biddle is credited to Hans Wild

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • Allied South Pacific Advance
  • Editorial
  • Christmas Presents Servicemen Won’t Get
  • Cattle Sale
  • Battle of Italy
  • Shirley Temple and Mary Pickford
  • Cliveden in Wartime
  • Joseph E. Davies’ Album of Second Mission to Moscow

    • ARTICLES:

  • It Makes Christians by Capt. Richard H. Chase
  • Food by Joseph J. Thorndike, Jr.

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Ambassador Biddle by Noel F. Busch

    • WAR LIVING:

  • Kids & Guns
  • Clothes for the Baby

    • MOVIE:

  • “So Proudly We Hail”

    • ARMY & NAVY:

  • Decorations and Service Ribbons 3 pages, 2 in full-color

    • SCIENCE:

  • Kitchen Chemistry

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: “Barnaby”
  • LIFE’s Reports: Braodwayese by George Frazier
  • LIFE Goes to a Backyard Party
  • Pictures to the Editors
  • Huge 2-page ad for Humphrey Bogart in “Sahara”

    • 1943-10-18 Life Magazine Contents

    1943/10/18 — Cover photograph featuring “Picture Romance” is credited to Sam Levitz.

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

  • Capture of Naples
  • Editorial: Russia’s Foreign Policy
  • Unknown Flier’s Grave Near Bengasi
  • Shake-up in State Department
  • U.S. Bomber Raid on Paramushiro
  • Ex-Ambassador Bullitt’s Campaign for Mayor

    • ARTICLE:

  • Basic English by Lincoln Barnett

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Marshall Field III by Francis Sill Wickware

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Picatinny Arsenal

    • WAR LIVING:

  • Europe’s Clothes

    • MOVIE:

  • “Princess O’Rourke” with Olivia de Havilland

    • ART:

  • Ensign Macouillard’s Picture Love Letters

    • SCIENCE:

  • Soil Erosion

    • THEATER:

  • “Blackouts of 1943”

    • HISTORY:

  • Famous War Letters

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • LIFE’s Reports: Alaska Highway by William S. Howland
  • Speaking of Pictures: LIFE Photographers
  • LIFE Visits the Pump Room in Chicago
  • Pictures to the Editors
  • “To the Cobra Cannoneers!” ad from Oldsmobile includes large cobra insignia the official insignia of the 93rd Fighter Squadron of the US Army Air Corps in full color – really sharp ad!
  • Ad for Mickey Rooney & Judy Garland in “Girl Crazy”
  • and a Coca-Cola ad (HAve a Coca-Cola=Come, be blessed and be happy…or how to break the ice in Iceland”) on the back cover

    • 1943-11-01 Life Magazine Contents

    1943/11/01 — Cover photograph featuring Thunderbolt Fighter is credited to Frank Scherschel

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

  • Execution of Nazi Spies – French Execute Two Nazi Spies in Syria
  • Editorial: Anglo-American Relations
  • Haitian President Lescot at White House
  • Naples Post Office Explosion
  • Mirgratory Ducks

  • Frank Sinatra Sings for Waves
  • New York’s Chrysanthemums Bloom
  • Lloyd George Marries
  • Interned Refugees Freed at Campagna
  • Buna Revisited

    • ARTICLE:

  • Postwar Air by Joseph Kastner

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Georgia Prisons

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Hildegarde by George Frazier

    • SCIENCE:

  • Magnetic Wire Recorder

    • ART:

  • Japanese Kabuki Play “The 47 Ronin” – With 4 pages of color artwork by Hiroshige and Hokusai

    • ARMY & NAVY:

  • West Point’s Training Camp

    • ANIMALS:

  • Smart Dog

    • MOVIE:

  • “The North Star

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • LIFE’s Reports: Texas Tall Tales by Paul Bolton
  • Speaking of Pictures: Gun-Camera Stills
  • LIFE Visitsan Army Hospital in Burma
  • Pictures to the Editors
  • Linda Darnell for Royal Crown Cola with color and black & white photos
  • Upjohn ad “When your doctor treats your child” includes color artwork by Norman Rockwell

    • 1943-11-22 Life Magazine Contents

    1943/11/22 — Cover photograph featuring Foot Soldiers is credited to Eliot Elisofon

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • Secretary of State Hull Returns
  • Editorial
  • General Marshall
  • De Marigny Trial in Nassau
  • Trouble in Syria
  • Tempest in Lebanon
  • Chili Williams by Request

    • ARTICLE:

  • Los Angeles by Roger Butterfield

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Ellery Queen by John Bainbridge

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • The German General Staff Corps

    • MUSIC:

  • Shostakovich Symphony

    • RELIGION:

  • Boys Pray for Allied Leaders

    • ARMY & NAVY:

  • South Pacific Atoll
  • Airmen’s Animals in Australia

    • THEATER:

  • Mary Martin’s Dress
  • Paul Robeson in “Othello”

    • ART:

  • Doris Rosenthal’s Mexican Paintings

    • SCIENCE:

  • Glareless Glass

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Footprints in Indiana Dunes
  • LIFE’s Reports: The Bengal Famine by William Fisher
  • LIFE calls on Italy’s Benedetto Croce
  • Pictures to the Editors
  • Coca-Cola ad on back cover

    • 1943-11-29 Life Magazine Contents

    1943/11/29 — Cover featuring Lieutenant General Ira Eaker of the Eighth Air Force is credited to Margaret Bourke-White

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • World’s No. 1 Army
  • Editorial
  • U.S. Army on Royal Throne
  • Allied Bombing of Rabaul
  • Marine Landing on Bougainville
  • Governor Bricker Announces

    • “TARGET GERMANY”:

  • VIII Bomber Command Book

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • The Brontes
  • Dam Threatens Pueblos

    • MEDICINE:

  • Tuberculosis Survey

    • ART:

  • British Self-Ridicule

    • THEATER:

  • Winged Victory

    • NATURAL HISTORY:

  • Seasons
  • Busy Beavers

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Floppy Rag Dolls

    • MOVIE:

  • Gilded Dietrich – Marlene Dietrich in “Kismet”

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • LIFE’s Reports: A Letter from an America Internee
  • Speaking of Pictures: John Steuart Curry
  • LIFE Goes to a Servicemen’s Party
  • Pictures to the Editors

    • 1943-12-06 Life Magazine Contents

    1943/12/06 — Cover photograph featuring Earmuffs in Fashion is credited to Walter Sanders

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

  • Sinkiang, Heart of Asia
  • Eitorial: Tarawa – The Marines Win New Glory in the Gilberts and Prove There Is No Cheap Way to Victory
  • Irving Berlin and Noel Coward in London
  • Opening Night at the Metropolitan Opera
  • Carrier Battle
  • Guerrilla Warfare in Yugoslavia

    • ARTICLES:

  • Germany — Enigma of the Peace by Dorothy Thompson

  • “Tomorrow We Will Be Free” by Carl and Shirley Mydans

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Solider’s Letter Home

    • SCIENCE:

  • Remote-Control Turret

    • WAR LIVING:

  • Root Cellar
  • Proviso Freight Yard

    • ARMY:

  • State Flags and the Rainbow Division – 6 pages of color photos, 8 pics per page, showing all of the state flags

    • MOVIE:

  • “No Time for Love”

    • NIGHT CLUB:

  • Buck and Bubbles – No.1 Tap Dancer

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Ear Muffs

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Old New England Houses
  • LIFE’s Reports: Burial at Sea by Robert Sherrod
  • LIFE Visits Jesse Stuart of W-Hollow
  • Pictures to the Editors

    • 1943-12-13 Life Magazine Contents

    1943/12/13 — Cover featuring Chinese Muslim is credited to William Vandivert

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

  • The Fight for Tarawa
  • Editorial: Pacific Plans includes full page map of the Pacific titled “Death Sentence of an Empire”
  • Whiskey Shortage from Coast to Coast
  • Rare White Cocker Spaniel is Born in California
  • Axis Newsreels Show Axis Strength

    • ARTICLES:

  • Rationing and Price Control by Chester Bowles
  • U.S.S. Borie’s Last Battle by John Hersey

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Sinkiang

    • SCIENCE:

  • Harvard’s Eateria

    • WAR LIVING:

  • Three Servicemen’s Wives Triple Up

    • DANCE:

  • Alexis Smith Turns Dancer

    • WAR:

  • Psychological Warfare

    • ANIMALS:

  • Artificial Breeding

    • MOVIES:

  • “Madame Curie” with Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: The Old Hell Is Still the Best
  • LIFE’s Reports: The Bombing of Berlin by John Scott
  • LIFE Goes to a London Beauty Contest
  • Pictures to the Editors

    • Notable advertising includes: Brian Donlevy for Calox*, Pennsylvania Railroad with large color John Clymer illustration, “Greatest Force on Earth” is 2-page Dextrose ad with large color illustration of a caveman by Frank Bensing VI, Boris Karloff for Lanolin Shaving Cream*, full-page ad for “The Song of Bernadette” features full-length illustration of star Jennifer Jones by Norman Rockwell, Sperry Corporation with large b&w illustration by Anton Otto Fischer, and a Camel Cigarettes ad with Santa Claus on the back cover. NOTE: An * denotes ad is smaller than a full-page.

    1944-01-31 Life Magazine Contents

    1944/01/31 — Cover photograph featuring British Air Chief Marshall Sir Arthur Tedder is credited to Eliot Elisofon

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

  • It’s a Tough War – Photos by Robert Capa
  • Editorial: Russian Relations
  • “The Hitler Gang” – Photo of actors in the film
  • Bolivian Revolution
  • Congressional Committees at Work
  • Bishop of Malta Dies
  • The Poor Working Girl: A Senate Debate

    • ARTICLE:

  • A Chapter from “The Republic” by Charles A. Beard

    • COLOR PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • American Names – 8 pages including 6 full-page color photos of scenes from places such as Salem, Nantucket, Wounded Knee and more

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Air Chief Marshall Tedder by Noel F. Busch

    • ARMY & NAVY:

  • Cape Gloucester
  • LST’s Load

    • NIGHT CLUB:

  • Florentine Gardens

    • RELIGION:

  • Consecration at St. Patrick’s Cathedral

    • MEDICINE:

  • Artificial Arms and Legs

    • MOVIE:

  • Alfred Hitchcock ‘s “Lifeboat” – 6 pages of photos of scenes from the film

    • ANIMALS:

  • Tame Squirrel

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Paintings of Prairie Communal Town
  • LIFE Calls on Valentina
  • Pictures to the Editors

    • 1944-02-14 Life Magazine Contents

    1944/02/14 — Cover photograph featuring “Wall of Fame” facade of Earl Carroll Theater is credited to Ralph Crane

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

  • War in Italy

  • Editorial: The Kremlin and the Vatican
  • Squanderbug in Redhill, England

  • Lucille Ball at the President’s Ball – 1 page with 4 photos
  • William Allen White – 1868-1944

    • ARTICLE:

  • A Chapter from “The Republic” by Charles A. Beard

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Tito by Stoyan Pribichevich

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Kansas

    • MOVIE:

  • “The Miracle at Morgan’s Creek”

    • NIGHT CLUB:

  • Hollywood’s Earl Carroll’s

    • ARMY & NAVY:

  • Air Evacuation of Wounded

    • NATURAL HISTORY:

  • Seeds

    • WAR LIVING:

  • English Princesses in Amateur Theatricals

    • THEATER:

  • Over Twenty-one

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Madison Square Garden
  • LIFE’s Reports: The Battle of Baltimore by A.B.C. Whipple
  • LIFE Goes Back to Pennsylvania Station
  • Pictures to the Editors
  • Full-page black & white ad for “A Guy Named Joe” with large image of Spencer Tracy and Irene Dunne

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    1944-02-28 Life Magazine Contents

    1944/02/28 — Cover photograph featuring Ella Raines is credited to Walter Sanders

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

  • Lincoln Day
  • Editorial: World Oil and World Politics
  • Chaplin Is Fingerprinted
  • Typhus in Naples
  • Bombing of Berlin
  • Yugoslav Children in Egypt

    • ARTICLE:

  • A Chapter from “The Republic” by Charles A. Beard

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Louis Lepke by Meyer Berger–

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Fun in Mexico, D.F.

    • SCIENCE:

  • Perspective Maps of World Battle Areas

    • ANIMALS:

  • Warlord of Mazelaine, Best Boxer

    • MOVIES:

  • Ella Raines

    • THEATER:

  • “The Cherry Orchard”

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Freight Car Emblems
  • LIFE’s Reports: January 1944 in the United States
  • LIFE Visits Red Cross Girls in England
  • Pictures to the Editors

    • 1944-03-06 Life Magazine Contents

    1944/03/06 — Cover photograph featuring Admiral Chester Nimitz is by Robert Landry

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • Pre-invasion: America Stockpiles Armaments in England
  • Editorial: America’s Interest in Europe–Peace
  • Wide-awake Birds and U.S. Air Force
  • Senate Blow-off
  • Bombing of the Abbey of Monte Cassino
  • Nimitz Navy: Central Pacific Advance

  • Death in Washington

    • ARTICLES:

  • A Chapter from “The Republic” by Charles A. Beard
  • Your War With Japan

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Twins

    • DANCE:

  • The Classic Hula

    • NATURAL HISTORY:

  • Household Pests

    • RELIGION:

  • Brides of Christ

    • ART:

  • “OKlahoma!” paintings by Doris Lee

    • MOVIES:

  • “Up in Arms” with Danny Kaye

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: The Face of the Income-Tax Payer
  • LIFE’s Reports: My Nightmare Journey by Salvador Dali
  • LIFE Visits A Penny Arcade
  • Pictures to the Editors
  • 2-page ad in color featuring Rita Hayworth in “Cover Girl”
  • Ernie Pyle for Chesterfield Cigarettes on the back cover

    • 1944-03-20 Life Magazine Contents

    1944/03/20 — Cover photograph featuring Ballerina Nana Gollner is by Ralph Crane

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • Tule Lake Segregation Center – At This Segregation Center are 18,000 Japanese Considered Disloyal to U.S. – 11 pages
  • Editorial: Beard’s Republic
  • Elyse Knox Tries on Tommy Harmon’s Parachute for Size
  • The Last of Lepke
  • Congress Fun

  • Governor Dewey in Albany

    • ARTICLES:

  • Final Chapter from “The Republic” by Charles A. Beard
  • Sequel to Salerno by Jack Belden

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • The Ballet – Includes 4 pages of color reproductions of Gladys Rockmore Davis paintings+

    • RELIGION:

  • Outlaw’s Bridge

    • ARMY & NAVY:

  • Synthetic Sky for Student Navigators

    • MEDICINE:

  • Frostbite

    • MOVIE:

  • “Lady in the Dark”

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • LIFE’s Reports: Pistols at 50 Paces by Holland McCombs
  • Speaking of Pictures: Air Views
  • LIFE Goes to Lake Placid
  • Pictures to the Editors

    • 1944-03-27 Life Magazine Contents

    1944/03/27 — Cover photograph featuring “Landing Craft, Infantry” is by George Rodger

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • Republican Senate Caucus
  • Editorial: American Foreign Policy
  • Vichy Collaborationist Condemned for Treason
  • “Berlin First”
  • Berlin Destruction
  • Map-reading Glamorized – Using Betty Grable to plot out maps
  • Return of the “Gripsholm”

    • ARTICLES:

  • “LCI 226” by John Hersey
  • Tragedy of Versailles by William C. Bullitt – A veteran of the conference of 1919 analyzes the mistakes of the past peace

    • THEATER:

  • “Decision”

    • ART:

  • The Albright Twins

    • WAR LIVING:

  • Food Gardens

    • ARMY & NAVY:

  • Women Marines

    • MEDICINE:

  • New Nerves for Old

    • NATURAL HISTORY:

  • Snow Geese

    • MOVIE:

  • “See Here, Private Hargrove”

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • LIFE’s Reports: How GI Joe Was Born by Sgt. Bill Mauldin
  • Speaking of Pictures: Pin-up Photographer
  • LIFE Visits the Wayside Inn
  • Pictures to the Editors

    • 1944-04-10 Life Magazine Contents

    1944/04/10 — Cover photograph featuring British Air Marshall Arthur T. Harris is credited to Combine

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

  • They Stopped Us at Cassino
  • War in Burma
  • Editorial: The Easter Message
  • Royal Wedding in London
  • Daladier in Prison
  • Argentine Quintuplets

    • ARTICLE:

  • The Airmen and the Invasion by Charles J.V. Murphy

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • The King of Egypt’s Palace – King Farouk I Opens Royal Home to Life Photographer

    • THEATER:

  • “Jacobowsky and the Colonel”

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Girls in the Rain

    • RELIGION:

  • St. Francis of Assisi

    • WAR LIVING:

  • Bed and Breakfast in School Canteen

    • SCIENCE:

  • Dyslexia

    • MOVIE:

  • Buffalo Bill

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Chili Williams Is Working for the Army
  • LIFE’s Reports: Elephants at War by Philip Wynter
  • LIFE Goes to a Railroad Party
  • Pictures to the Editors

    • 1944-04-24 Life Magazine Contents

    1944/04/24 — Cover photograph featuring Princess Elizabeth is credited to Yousuf Karsh

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

  • Trouble in Burma
  • Editorial: Negro Rights
  • Lemons and Oranges at St. Clement’s

  • Palau
  • Dover Cave Dwellers
  • Broadway Varga Girl

  • Princess Elizabeth is 18

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • California’s Warren Family by Robert Coughlan about Earl Warren and family

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Spring, 1944

    • ARMY & NAVY:

  • First Negro Ensigns
  • “Welcome to Britain”

    • MUSIC:

  • American Composers by Serge Koussevitzky

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Finlandia Baths

    • ART:

  • Carnegie Show – With four pages of color reproductions plus a large black & white photo of Andrew Carnegie

    • SCIENCE:

  • Pregnancy Test by Frogs

    • THEATER:

  • “Follow the Girls” with Gertrude Niesen

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Pittsburgh Traffic Lessons
  • LIFE’s Reports: Letter from the London Zoo, by Edward Hindle, Director
  • LIFE Goes to a Mock Convention
  • Pictures to the Editors
  • Large color image of Shirley Temple in ad for Royal Crown Cola

    • 1942-06-08 Life Magazine Contents

    1942/06/08 — Cover featuring “Nurses’ Aide” is credited to J.R. Eyerman.

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

  • U.S. Launches 21 Big Ships on Maritime Day
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • Enlisted Men Place Leis on Graves of Pearl Harbor Dead in Hawaii
  • U.S. Women Troop to Enlist in WAAC
  • Fred Allen Cuts a Slice of Old Vaudeville Ham
  • Flight from Burma

    • ARTICLES:

  • Nurses’ Aide by Lorraine Ames
  • The Australians by Cecil Brown

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Wartime Parties

    • AIR FORCES:

  • U.S. Fighter Planes Step Up Their Firepower

    • CHILD ANALYSIS:

  • Research Shows That Children’s Daubs Are Pictures of Emotions

    • SPORTS:

  • Magician Warns Soldiers of New Plague of Cardsharps
  • New Methods Produce Golf and Tennis Balls Without Crude Rubber

    • MOVIES:

  • “Mrs. Miniver” with Greer Garson

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Plastic Surgeon Tinkers Faces of Past’s Great
  • LIFE Goes to Princess Elizabeth’s Birthday Party
  • Pictures to the Editors

    • Notable advertising includes: Rice Krispies ad with Snap, Crackle and Pop, . NOTE: An * denotes ad is smaller than a full-page.

    1942-06-15 Life Magazine Contents

    1942/06/15 — Cover photograph featuring General Stillwell is credited to George Rodger

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

  • R.A.F. Blasts at Germany’s War Industry
  • LIFE on Newsfronts of the World
  • Australian Soldiers Are Blown Into Air by Accidental Explosion
  • 1,000 Men of Houston Enlist to Replace Crew of Lost Cruiser
  • West Point Graduates 374 New Second Lieutenants
  • Memorial Day Brings Hopes of a Better Post-War World
  • California Crops Rot in Field for Want of Farm Labor

    • ARTICLE:

  • Burma Mission by Clare Booth is the cover story featuring General Stillwell

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Negroes at War – 11 pages

    • RELIGION:

  • Mass Baby Blessing

    • INDUSTRY:

  • Oxyaceteylene Flame at Work

    • ART:

  • Paintings at Andover

    • MOVIES:

  • “Yankee Doodle Dandy” starring James Cagney

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Sub-debs Do Useful War Work as Juniors in AWVS

    • ARMY:

  • Recreation Officers at Fort Meade Learn “Dirty Fighting” Technique

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Frenchman Foresaw Mechanized War in 1883
  • LIFE’s Reports: Nurses on Bataan by Annalee Jacoby
  • People
  • LIFE Goes to an Aviator’s Farewell Party
  • Pictures to the Editors