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1950-02-14 Look Magazine Contents

1950/02/14 — Cover photograph of Ann Blyth is credited to Maurice Terrell

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

  • Party Games
  • How 4 Teenagers Met Death by George Mills
  • The Lincolns in the White House by Reinhard H. Luthin
  • Is This an Answer to Socialized Medicine?
  • Fatigue
  • WORLD SPOTLIGHT:

  • “Socialize Everything” That’s the Plan of the British Labor Party by Fulton Oursler
  • Why Should American Soldiers Live Like Pigs? by Dr. Daniel A. Poling
  • STRICTLY PERSONAL:

  • Snack Time
  • What It Takes to Be a Radio-TV Star about Janette Davis
  • Sid Caesar
  • Three Mermaids ona Date
  • Ann Blyth (Just a half-page, she is on the cover too)
  • FASHION AND BEAUTY:

  • Menswear – Which Suit Has the Nylon? by Perkins H. Bailey
  • The American Woman Is No Slouch
  • Permanent Pleats Now Make Easy-To-Sew Dress
  • New Ski Cape-Round and Red
  • ART:

  • Marini – The New Italy’s Top Sculptor Has His First U.S. Show
  • FOOD AND HOMEMAKING:

  • LOOK Polls What America Likes to Eat
  • SPORTS:

  • Connie Mack ‘s Last Year by Tim Cohane
  • Rocky Graziano – He’s a Good Boy Now – Photos by Stanley Kubrick
  • DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters and Pictures to the Editor
  • Photoquiz
  • LOOK Applauds
  • Photocrime
  • LOOK Movie Review: Twelve O’Clock High with Gregory Peck
  • Record Guide
  • Sources of LOOK’s Pictures
  • Beautiful full-page color ad for Chesterfields on the back cover features a large image of Gregory Peck
  • Filed Under: Look Magazine Tagged With: Look Magazine

    1950-02-28 Look Magazine Contents

    1950/02/28 — Cover photograph of Liz Hastings is credited to Arthur Rothstein

    LOOK staff photographer Stanley Kubrick is credited with photos in the “Big Little Art Collection” article.

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

  • Katharine Hepburn Returns in As You Like It
  • Crime Among the Angels by Albert Q. Maisel
  • Lady Lecturer Hits the Road about Emily Kimbrough
  • The Differences Between Men and Women by Jacques Bacal
  • Mid-Winter Nights in New York
  • The Baptists by Lewis W. Gillenson
  • Prejudice
  • STRICTLY PERSONAL:

  • Amos ‘N’ Andy
  • Accidents Can Be Funny
  • Durante’s “Physiogimy”
  • FASHIONS AND BEAUTY:

  • Patent Leather and Checks
  • Shrug Shoulder Sweater
  • ART:

  • Big Little Art Collection
  • FOOD AND HOMEMAKING:

  • Pancake Day
  • SPORTS:

  • Ohio State – Football’s High-Pressure Area by Tim Cohane with drawing by Willard Mullin
  • Maurice Richard – Lightening on Ice
  • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters and Pictures to the Editors
  • Look Applauds
  • Photoquiz
  • Meet the People
  • Photocrime
  • Movie Review: Stromboli
  • Record Guide
  • 2-page ad (?) titled “This is CBS..the Columbia Broadcasting System” which has a color illustration by Joe Kaufman stretching across the two pages with a key at the bottom identifying 41 CBS personalities and shows pictured including Inner Sanctum, Hattie McDaniel as Beulah, Bing Crosby, Groucho Marx, Burns and Allen, Amos ‘n’ Andy, the Goldbergs, Lucille Ball in My Favorite Husband, Gene Autry, Red Skelton, etc., etc., etc. Great illustration, awesome ad!

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    1950-03-28 Look Magazine Contents

    1950/03/28 — Cover photograph of Marjorie Winters is credited to Arthur Rothstein

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

  • Inside F.D.R. by John Gunther
  • Family of Doctors
  • Don’t Kid Yourself About Pensions by Nat S. Finney
  • Are You the Woman Your Husband Married? by Jacques Bacal
  • Quick as a Flash with photos credited to Stanley Kubrick
  • Southern Catholics Fight Race Hatred by Gretta Palmer
  • Votes Go West
  • WORLD SPOTLIGHT:

  • 10,000 Children Live Again
  • STRICTLY PERSONAL:

  • Esther Williams
  • Theater Kids
  • Dog Hits Jackpot
  • Groucho … The Man From Marx by Leo Rosten
  • Helen Hayes Returns to Broadway
  • FASHIONS AND BEAUTY:

  • Easter Hat – Perennial Dispute
  • Shirted to a T
  • FOOD AND HOMEMAKING:

  • America’s Changing Taste in Fish
  • ART:

  • Charles DeMuth – Early Modern American Artist
  • SPORTS:

  • The LOOK All-America Basketball Team by Tim Cohane – First Team includes Paul Arizin and Bob Cousy
  • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters and Pictures to the Editors
  • Look Applauds
  • Photoquiz
  • Movie Review: Young Man With a Horn starring Kirk Douglas
  • Record Guide
  • Photocrime
  • Filed Under: Look Magazine Tagged With: Look Magazine

    1950-04-11 Look Magazine Contents

    1950/04/11 — Cover photograph of Elizabeth Ball, Pamela Curran, Janet Simms, Phyllis Bergquist, Liz Hastings and Mary Gardner is credited to Arthur Rothstein

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

  • A Measure of Freedom by Arnold Forster
  • Adolescence: A Time of Trial and Tragedy by William Houseman
  • What Are We Doing About Cerebral Palsy?
  • Toast of the Town
  • Inside F.D.R. – From Mama’s Boy to Manhood by John Gunther
  • Bird Painter about Owen Gromme
  • WORLD SPOTLIGHT:

  • Could This Happen? by Hubert Pryor
  • The Navy Takes on the Snorkel Menace by Edward K. Neilor
  • The Biggest Swindle in History by I.C. Hart
  • STRICTLY PERSONAL:

  • Society Photographers Scrapbook
  • Jack Sterling Wakes ‘Em Up
  • Melchior Wins a Contest
  • Carol Channing – “Little Girl from Little Rock”
  • FASHIONS AND BEAUTY:

  • LOOK and Macy’s Cover Paris Openings
  • Hats — Cheaper by the Dozen
  • FOOD AND HOMEMAKING:

  • Easter Breakfast
  • ART:

  • Michelangelo – His Sculptures Come Alive in Film, The Titan
  • SPORTS:

  • Don Newcombe by Tim Cohane
  • Paul Pettit – The $100,000 Kid
  • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters and Pictures to the Editors
  • Photoquiz
  • Look Applauds
  • Movie Review: Riding High
  • Record Guide
  • Photocrime
  • Camel Cigarettes ad on back cover features baseball stars Mel Parnell, Howie Pollet, Vic Raschi, and Bob Lemon

    Filed Under: Look Magazine Tagged With: Look Magazine

    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
  • Filed Under: Look Magazine Tagged With: Look Magazine

    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
  • Filed Under: Look Magazine Tagged With: Look Magazine

    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
  • Filed Under: Look Magazine Tagged With: Look Magazine

    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
  • Filed Under: Look Magazine Tagged With: Look Magazine

    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.
  • Filed Under: Look Magazine Tagged With: Look Magazine

    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.
  • Filed Under: Look Magazine Tagged With: Look Magazine

    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.
  • Filed Under: Look Magazine Tagged With: Look Magazine

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