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1947-01-07 Look Magazine Contents

1947/01/07 — Cover photograph is of Susan Hope Smith

Contents as taken from this issue’s index are as follows:
AMERICAN SPOTLIGHT:

  • LOOK Cartoons
  • What Are Your Chances in 1947?
  • Our New Board of Directors – These 9 Republicans Face a Tough Job by Richard Wilson
  • How You Will Travel in 1947
  • LOOK Calendar for 1947
  • East Prediction: Men Will Be Wolves
  • There Will Be More Strikes in 1947

  • Industry’s Class of 1947

    • WORLD SPOTLIGHT:

  • I Predict for 1947… — Eleven LOOK Forum Experts Give Their Opinions on Five Vital Issues
  • Germs – New War Terror
  • Washington Correspondents Look Ahead to Men and Politics in ’47

    • STRICTLY PERSONAL:

  • Meet the People: What Part of America Would You Like to See in 1947?

    • SPORTS:

  • I Predict–College Football Will “Clean House” in ’47 by Tim Cohane

    • MOVIES AND ENTERTAINMENT:
    LOOK Selects These Newcomers as Best Bets for Stardom During 1947:

  • Screen – Louis Jourdan
  • Screen – Peggy Cummins
  • Music – Elliot Lawrence
  • Stage – Patricia Neal
  • Radio – Henry Morgan
  • Television – It Will Start to Grow Up
  • Humoresque starring Joan Crawford and John Garfield – LOOK’s New Movie Review

  • LOOK’s Movie Guide

    • MUSIC:

  • 1947’s Musicmen – They’ll Head Your List of Favorites This Year
  • LOOK’s Record Guide

    • FASHION AND BEAUTY:

  • You Can Pick Your Style in 1947

    • FOOD AND SCIENCE:

  • These Food Dreams Will Come True in ’47
  • The LOOK Clinic

    • TEST YOURSELF:

  • Photoquiz
  • Personality Clinic
  • Photocrime

    • LETTERS AND PICTURES:

  • To the Editor

    • 1950-04-25 Look Magazine Contents

    1950/04/25 — Cover photograph of Brynhild is credited to Arthur Rothstein

    Contents as taken from this issue’s index are as follows:
    AMERICAN SPOTLIGHT:

  • How to Understand Your Child by Flanders Dunbar, M.D.
  • What’s Your Eye Trouble?
  • Yale — Mother of Colleges
  • Voters Split on Truman Program by George Gallup
  • A New Fight to Save Kids
  • World War II Reunions – 2-page spread features color photos of insignias of 43 units with scheduled reunions
  • Inside F.D.R. – His Wife vs. His Mother by John Gunther
  • Glittering Houston
  • How to Outshout the Reds by Mrs. Gordon Lamont

    • WORLD SPOTLIGHT:

  • Hollywood Stars Invade Berlin

    • STRICTLY PERSONAL:

  • Back to Peoria with Fibber & Molly
  • The Angel is about wrestler Maurice Tillet
  • The Strange World of Carol Reed – It is eerily presented in his two recent movies: The Third Man , The Fallen Idol

    • FASHION AND BEAUTY:

  • A New Maternity Fashion Is Born

    • FOOD AND HOMEMAKING:

  • Triplets Try New Stroller
  • Caesar Salad Comes East

    • ART:

  • $3,000,000 Art Collection

    • SPORTS:

  • Ted Williams ‘ Magic Eye
  • 1950 Baseball Forecast by Tim Cohane (Cohane picked the Red Sox and the Dodgers)

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters and Pictures to the Editors

  • Photoquiz
  • Meet the People
  • Look Applauds
  • Record Guide
  • Photocrime
  • Ad for Chesterfields on the back cover features a large image of Zachary Scott

    • 1948-12-07 Look Magazine Contents

    1948/12/07 — Cover photograph of Barbara Ann Scott is credited to John Vachon

    Contents as taken from this issue’s index are as follows:
    AMERICAN SPOTLIGHT:

  • Santa Anita – The World’s Richest Race Track by Dan Fowler
  • The Presidency – The Roosevelt Era — Part 6 of 6 — by Stegan Lorant

  • Church Thanksgiving at Upper Octorara
  • How Rich Is Your State

    • WORLD SPOTLIGHT:

  • John Gunther Reports on Turkey
  • He Sens Soap to Europe

    • STRICTLY PERSONAL:

  • Margaret O’Brien ‘s Sketches
  • Dog Climbs Tree
  • New Play Pokes Fun – Moss Hart ‘s Light in the Sky has Broadway Guessing
  • The Fighting Ladd – A Slight, Shy, Self-Conscious Christian Scientist Has Become the Screen’s #1 Tough Guy – Alan Ladd
  • They Can’t Pull Their Punch Lines – Another Parade of Anecdotes from Bennett Cerf’s New Book
  • Kuniyoshi – One of America’s Most Honored Artists Fuses East and West

    • SPORTS:

  • Barbara Ann Scott — Princess of the Ice
  • What Kind of Football Player Was Eisenhower? by Col. Alexander M. Weyand

    • FASHIONS AND BEAUTY:

  • The Races – Fashions of Yesterday Were as Over-ornamented as Their Period; Fashions of Today Are as Individual as Our Times
  • Kids Mimic Models Who Launch New Velvet Swimsuits
  • Will Teenagers Use Jewelry as Pin-Ups on Self-Made Bibs?

    • FOOD AND HOMEMAKING:

  • New Toy Spurs Milk Drinking
  • Fruit Cake

    • DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters and Pictures to the Editor
  • Photoquiz
  • LOOK Applauds
  • Photocrime
  • LOOK Movie Review: Miss Tatlock’s Millions
  • Movie Guide
  • Record Guide
  • Sources of LOOK’s Pictures

    • 1950-05-09 Look Magazine Contents

    1950/05/09 — Cover photograph of Jack Benny and Rochester is credited to Frank Bauman

    Contents as taken from this issue’s index are as follows:
    AMERICAN SPOTLIGHT:

  • How Bridges Rules the Pacific by Frank J. Taylor
  • Canine Paratrooper
  • Midget Midway
  • Inside F.D.R. – What Killed Him by John Gunther
  • What Do You Know About You? by Harold B. Clemenko

    • WORLD SPOTLIGHT:

  • This Is Germany – The Soviet Zone
  • Western Europe’s Dollar Brain Trust by William Lowe
  • Can We Afford to Pull Out of Japan? by Richard P. Gale

    • STRICTLY PERSONAL:

  • Elizabeth Taylor – Hollywood’s Lovliest Bride – Includes full-page color photo of Taylor
  • Career Girl by Patricia Coffin – Leila Hadley
  • Jack Benny — America’s Fall Guy by Leo Rosten
  • Ken Murray Tries Out TV Talent – Photos credited to Stanley Kubrick
  • New York Cowgirl

    • FASHION AND BEAUTY:

  • Phantom Fashions
  • 7-Piece Resort Wardrobe From 1 Pattern

    • FOOD AND HOMEMAKING:

  • Home–Finished Foods

    • ART:

  • Edward Munch – Norway’s Artist-Idol Makes U.S. Debut

    • SPORTS:

  • Phil Rizzuto – The Yankee Nipper by Tim Cohane – Photos credited to Stanley Kubrick

    • DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters and Pictures to the Editor
  • Photoquiz
  • LOOK Applauds
  • LOOK Movie Review: Annie Get Your Gun
  • Record Guide
  • Photocrime
  • Sources of LOOK’s Pictures
  • Full-page color ad for Champagne for Caesar featuring Ronald Colman and Celeste Holm
  • Full-page color ad for Pabst Blue Ribbon features a large photograph of William Bendix
  • Ad for Lucky Strikes on back cover features Hedy Lamarr

    • 1948-12-21 Look Magazine Contents

    1948/12/21 — Cover photograph of Jane Greer is credited to Bob Sandburg

    Contents as taken from this issue’s index are as follows:
    AMERICAN SPOTLIGHT:

  • Atomic Ore Discovered in Colorado! – For the First Time, America Has Enough High-Grade Uranium for Self-Suffiency in the Atomic Age

    • WORLD SPOTLIGHT:

  • Winter Vacation – Frankie and Johnny O’Rear Find Canada’s Mt. Temblant a Perfect Winter Playgroun

  • John Gunther Reports on Vienna
  • The Virgin and the Christ Child
  • Making Children’s Dreams Come True – A New Kind of Contest Is Sponsored by Italian Poets for the Children of the World

    • STRICTLY PERSONAL:

  • Teenage Doughnut Party – Dumont, N.J. Teenagers Take Over a Doughnut Shop for a Costume Party
  • Everybody Wants to Make a Record – For Most People, There Is Nothing So Sweet as the Sound of Their Own Voice
  • Boy Meets Dog – And Up Pops an Etiquette Problem
  • The Bashful Cow
  • Career Twins – Sudi and Cerni McCullough Make $30,000 a Year as Fashion Artists
  • Bobby Clark – The Rowdy Comedian Returns to Broadway as a President’s Husband
  • How Eight LOOK Photographers See Jane Greer – The first shot is by Stanley Kubrick, black & white, full-page with title and opening text of the article on the page as well.
  • Underwater Ballet – Girls Gracefully Dance for Rare Pictures in Florida

    • SPORTS:

  • Grantland Rice Picks the LOOK All-America includes Leo Nomellini, Chuck Bednarik, Doak Walker and others
  • Dom DiMaggio – Baseball’s Greatest Outfielder by Tim Cohane – 4 pages

    • FASHIONS AND BEAUTY:

  • These Bras Are Meant to Show

    • FOOD AND HOMEMAKING:

  • This Year Christmas Is a Family Affair
  • Easy-Serve Buffet for Busy Christmas Tree Trimmers

    • SCIENCE AND MEDICINE:

  • Childless Couples Can Get Help – Thirty Per Cent of All Infertility Cases Are Curable

    • DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters and Pictures to the Editor
  • Photoquiz
  • LOOK Applauds
  • Photocrime
  • LOOK Movie Review: The Snake Pit starring Olivia de Havilland
  • Movie Guide
  • Travel Treasure Hunt
  • Record Guide
  • Sources of LOOK’s Pictures
  • Full-page color ad featuring Bob Hope and Jane Russell in The Paleface

    • 1950-05-23 Look Magazine Contents

    1950/05/23 — Cover photograph of Janet Simms is credited to James Hansen

    LOOK photographer Stanley Kubrick is credited with the photo of Theodore Roosevelt III on page 104.

    Contents as taken from this issue’s index are as follows:
    AMERICAN SPOTLIGHT:

  • U.S. Crime: Its Bosses Are Making Millions by Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer
  • You Name It … Broadway Has It
  • Raid on a Moonshiner
  • Ely Culbertson Tells You How to Improve Your Canasta
  • The G.O.P. Has a Roosevelt Too
  • These Congressmen Are Sons of Immigrants

    • WORLD SPOTLIGHT:

  • We Did Not Need to Drop the A-Bomb by Admiral Ellis M. Zacharias

    • STRICTLY PERSONAL:

  • My Fabulous Mother by Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr.
  • The Truth About Shirley Temple by Isabella Taves
  • Dancers’ Housewarming
  • Gildersleeve Gives the Bride Away

    • FASHIONS AND BEAUTY:

  • Magic-Sheer Magic
  • Shadow and Substance in Nightgowns

    • FOOD AND HOMEMAKING:

  • 77 Dishes — One Mix

    • ART:

  • Sculptor Foundry

    • SPORTS:

  • Prize Boxing Photos
  • Cape Vincent — Where the Fish Really Bite

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters and Pictures to the Editors
  • Look Applauds

  • Photoquiz

  • Movie Review: No Sad Songs for Me starring Margaret Sullavan
  • Record Guide
  • Camel Cigarettes ad on the back cover features Lanny Ross

    • 1949-01-04 Look Magazine Contents

    1949/01/04 — Cover photograph of June Thompson is credited to John Vachon

    Contents as taken from this issue’s index are as follows:
    AMERICAN SPOTLIGHT:

  • Elgin’s Christmas Day Radio Program Has a Cast of Talent Worth $4,308,000 A Year
  • Theatre Guild: Cradle of the Stars
  • “Dear Milkman” – He Gives Us Loyal Service Every Day
  • Cactus Can Be Beautiful – 15 Portraits of Delicate Cacti Blooms

    • WORLD SPOTLIGHT:

  • A Plan for Peace by Hamilton Fish Armstrong
  • I Predict – Washington Correspondents Look Ahead to Men & Politics in 1949
  • Why Should Ilse Koch Go Free? LOOK Presents Two Opposing Viewpoints — One by William D. Denson and Robert Lowe Kunzig, Second by James O’Donnell
  • Picasso: Family Man, several photos plus full-page color reproduction of Woman With the Striped Bodice
  • BIg Game Hunting in Canada – The Yukon Territory Provides a New Thrill for Two Oregon Hunters

    • STRICTLY PERSONAL:

  • Valli – The Much-Publicized Italian Beauty Is Here to Stay
  • The 14 Mrs. Vanderbilts by Jerome Zerbe
  • I Predict – LOOK Picks Entertainment Personalities for Big-Time Success in 1949 — Movies: Patricia Neal and Rossano Brazzi – Stage: Allyn Ann McLerie – Radio: Lucille Ball
  • Music: Benny Goodman — Television: Milton Berle
  • Ten Top Dogs – The American Kennel Club Selects Most Popular Breeds

    • SPORTS:

  • I Predict – Joe Louis Will Lose His Title by Tim Cohane
  • Football’s Most Worth-While Game – The Annual East-West Game on New Year’s Day Has Netted Big Money to Help Crippled Children

    • FASHIONS AND BEAUTY:

  • This Cat Is Drinking Old Wool Pants
  • I Predict: Resort Clothes Predict Next Summer’s Styles for Men
  • “Sleep in Scarfs”–Says Victor Vito

    • DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters and Pictures to the Editor
  • Photoquiz
  • LOOK Applauds
  • LOOK Movie Review: The Accused with Loretta Young
  • Movie Guide
  • Record Guide
  • Photocrime
  • Sources of LOOK’s Pictures

    • 1950-06-06 Look Magazine Contents

    1950/06/06 — Cover photograph of Lana Turner is credited to Eric Carpenter of MGM

    Contents as taken from this issue’s index are as follows:
    AMERICAN SPOTLIGHT:

  • The Great Vivisection Dog Fight by William Manchester
  • Roosevelt Battles Warren by Charles Daggett
  • Dixieland Jazz is “Hot” Again by Joseph Roddy with Photos by Stanley Kubrick of some of Dixieland’s luminaries: George Lewis – Eddie Condon – Phil Napoleon – Oscar Celestin and Alphonse Picou – Muggsy Spneier – Louis Armstrong and Jack Teagarden – Art Hodes, Pee Wee Russell, Lee Collins and Georg Brunis – Firehouse Five Plus Two – Red Nichols – Sidney Bechet – Sharkey Bonano
  • The Other Man by Jacques Bacal
  • Memorial Day 1950

    • WORLD SPOTLIGHT:

  • How We Bungled the Japanese Surrender by Rear Admiral Ellis M. Zacharias
  • Why the U.S. and Canada Should Be One Country by George E. Shea, Jr.

    • STRICTLY PERSONAL:

  • Ballet in Shadows
  • Gloria Swanson Kids Herself
  • The Evolution of Lana Turner – 6 pages (2 full, 4 half-pages) of mostly photos
  • Robert Q. Lewis Asks: Is This You?
  • Double or Nothing Guests See Sights of Hollywood, includes a couple of small photos by Stanley Kubrick
  • Cornell Borchers – Berlin Cinderella

    • FASHIONS AND BEAUTY:

  • Start With a Pretty Slip

    • MEN’S FASHIONS:

  • Men Resorters Give O.K. to Sheer Shirts by Perkins H. Bailey

    • FOOD AND HOMEMAKING:

  • Young American Chefs

  • Wine Is Food

    • ART:

  • John Peto – His Paintings Fool the Eye

    • SPORTS:

  • George Kell – Pitchers’ Killjoy by H.G. Salsinger

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters and Pictures to the Editors
  • Look Applauds

  • Photoquiz

  • Movie Review: The Big Life
  • Record Guide
  • Photocrime
  • Source of Look’s Pictures
  • Full-page color ad for Pabst Blue Ribbon features golfer Ben Hogan
  • Camel Cigarettes ad on back cover features color image of Nadine Conner

    • 1937-06-08 Look Magazine Contents

    1937/06/08 — ITEM DESCRIPTION:
    Volume 1, Number 8 of LOOK Magazine, from the early days when it consisted entirely of photo-essays.

    Paging through the issue some of the contents are as follows:

  • “A Chinese Dentist Pulls a Tooth” is a pretty excruciating looking photo on the inside front cover
  • “Is This Christ’s Shroud?” – 1-page
  • “Some Famous Perfect Features” 1-page.
  • “The Man Who Sells Beauty — John Roberts Powers, Boss of a Thousand Models” 2-pages followed by 1-page titled “Tricks of Modeling” and another page titled “Artists and Models”
  • “Jungle Vengeance…Indians Torture White Women to Death” is 1-page of photos that are supposed to be from Iquitos, Peru in 1920
  • 2-page color center spread is a large picture of Ethel de Pont with some text underneath
  • “George Bernard Shaw — England’s Bad Boy — He Shocks Everybody” 1-page
  • “Hara-Kiri — How a Japanese Warrior Commits Suicide” – 2-pages
  • “Shark — Cannibal of the Sea” and “Do Sharks Eat Men?” is 2-pages of sharks
  • “America’s Favorite Honeymooners — William Powell and Myrna Loy” is 8-pages total of photos of Powell and Loy from their earliest days up to the present, great photo-feature!
  • The back cover previews the next issue and has a large color photo of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
  • Plus several other features.
  • 44 pages total including the covers.

    • 1937-08-31 Look Magazine Contents

    1937/08/31 — ITEM DESCRIPTION:
    Volume 1, Number 14 of LOOK Magazine, from the early days when it consisted entirely of photo-essays.

    Paging through the issue some of the contents are as follows:

  • “The Story of a Great Man — This Priest Sacrificed His Life for Lepers” about Father Damien who died in 1889 — 3-pages
  • “The Story of Dead End — A Great Play Comes to the Screen” — 2-pages with Joel McCrea and Sylvia Sidney
  • “She Stands On Her Head to Keep Fit at 72” — 1-page about Elsie de Wolfe including a photo of her as an actress in her younger days
  • Factory-Built Houses…The Latest Trend in Modern Construction” — 2-pages
  • “World’s Prettiest Athlete” is one-page with a large color photo of Eleanor Holm Jarrett
  • “The Tragedy of a Gangster’s Doll” — 1-page about Kiki Roberts
  • “The Third Degree — Brutal Police Methods Sometimes Used on Prisoners” — 2-pages
  • “Umpiring … The Toughest Job in Baseball” — 3 pages
  • “How a Lie Detector Works” — 1-page
  • “How Girls Live in German Labor Camps” — 2-pages
  • “The Funniest Picture of the Year” is the 2-page center-spread is of a girl standing on her head alonside an elephant standing on its head
  • “The Story of the Iron Lung” — 2-pages
  • “Katharine Hepburn … Hollywood’s Problem Girl” — 4-pages
  • “How They Make Wax Figures of Movie Stars” — 2-pages including wax heads of Clark Gable, Joan Crawford and cover-head Greta Garbo
  • “A Plane Crashes — It Happened at a St. Louis Air Show” — 2-pages
  • “A Chorus Girl Talks About Men” — Vera Devine — 1-page
  • Plus several other features.
  • 52 pages total including the covers.

    • 1938-05-24 Look Magazine Contents

    1938/05/24 — ITEM DESCRIPTION:
    Volume 2, Number 11 of LOOK Magazine, from the early days when it consisted entirely of photo-essays.

    Paging through the issue some of the contents are as follows:

  • “WPA Workers Conquer Ohio’s 54-Year-Old Mine-Fire” — 2-pages
  • “300,000,000 Catholics Pray for Pope Pius’ Health” — 2-pages
  • “Mexico’s Greatest Bullfight” — 2-pages
  • “If Fascism Comes to America … This Is What It Will Mean to You” — 6-pages
  • “How the Quintuplets Differ from Each Other” — 1-page
  • “From Stout to Slim … Miracles of Reducing” includes before and after photos of Barbara Hutton, Marion Talley, Marion Pierce and Paul Whiteman
  • “Grin and Bear It, Says Lichy” is 1-page with a photo of George Maurice Lichtenstein along with 6 of his cartoons
  • “25 Years With Cecil B. DeMille Master of Movie Spectacles” — 4-pages of photos from his films including Gloria Swanson in “Male and Female,” Dustin Farnum in 1913’s “The Squaw Man,” Geraldine Farrar in 1915’s “Carmen,” Claudette Colbert in “Four Frightened People,” plus photos of DeMille and family
  • “Royalty’s Prettiest Mother” is The Duchess of Kent — 1-1/2 pages
  • “Fred MacMurray Ducks Carole Lombard” is 4 photos on 1-page of MacMurray dunking Lombard underwater.
  • “How An Expert Plays Golf — Magic Eye Camera Catches Famed Golfer John Montague in Action” is a page and a half, one page with a 12-pic shot and the half-page with an 8-pic shot
  • “Mack Sennett — 25 Years Ago He Created the Bathing Beauty — Today He Gets an Award” — 3-1/2 pages with photos of Sennett, Louise Fazenda, Gloria Swanson, Carole Lombard, Armida, Sally Eilers, Madeline Hurlock, Toby Wing, Phyllis Haver, Vera Reynolds, and Duane Thompson
  • “Famous Narrow Escapes … of Newsreel Photographers”
  • Plus several other features.
  • 68 pages total including the covers.