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1939-07-17 Life Magazine Contents Page for July 17, 1939

1939/07/17 — Cover featuring Lord Halifax is credited to Margaret Bourke-White

Contents of this issue are as follows:

THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • Italy Celebrates the Scientific Genius of Leonardo da Vinci
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • Theodore Roosevelt Takes His Place on Mount Rushmore
  • First Autogiro Mail Service Starts
  • Federal Theater Drops Curtain
  • Pilot Escapes Death by Electrocution after Crash into Power Line
  • Lord Halifax Eats Lunch on Train to Geneva
  • Irish Terrorists Throw Bombs in London
  • Henry Ford Sets Out to “Revolutionize Farming” with new Lightweight Tractor

    • THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • The Telephone Company
  • The Spanish “Army” in France – 350,000 Loyalist Refugees Fill Camps

    • MOVIES:

  • Movie Girls Fight Hard to Screen “The Women”
  • THE WIZARD OF OZ – 2 pages with some text but mostly full-color scene shots from the movie, 8 photos in all
  • VIVIEN LEIGH AS SCARLETT O’HARA in Gone With the Wind – A single page,most of it filled with large photo of Leigh at the bottom of the staircase as Scarlett

    • Theater:

  • New Musical Shows on Broadway: “From Vienna” and “Streets of Paris”

    • ART:

  • New Editions of Best Modern Sculpture Sell for $10 Up

    • HORTICULTURE:

  • Roses

    • NATURAL HISTORY:

  • Childless Texas Couple Adopt Baby Chimpanzees

    • MODERN LIVING

  • Northerners Succumb to Summer Suits

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures — The Navy Rounds the Horn
  • LIFE Goes Bicycling in Maine
  • Pictures to the Editors

    • 1941-02-10 Life Magazine Contents February 10 1941

    1941/02/10 — Cover photograph featuring New British Ambassador Lord Halifax is credited to Time, Inc.

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • Mussolini Takes a Bad Licking in Africa – 7 pages
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • American Bombers Take off for Britain from Newfoundland Base
  • Hearst’s Fabulous Art Goes at Bargain Prices
  • Lana Turner and Deanna Durbin Are Belles of President’s Birthday Ball – 2 pages includes full page shot of Durbin dancing with William Knudsen
  • Bombed London Railway Is Remade as Good as New in Four Hours
  • Socialite Fishermen Relax at Quarterdeck Club on Biscayne Bay
  • Inside Wartime Germany – Part 2 by William L. Shirer

    • CLOSE-UP

  • Lord Halifax by Carl Joachim Friedrich

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • LIFE Shows How to Fire a 75-mm. Field Gun – 8 pages

    • SCIENCE:

  • Earthquakes – Earth’s Crust & Ice Balls Break in Same Pattern

    • ART:

  • Spindletop – Great Texas Oil Gusher is Painted for LIFE by Alexandre Hogue

    • EDUCATION:

  • Ynching Is No. 1 Christian University in China

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • LIFE’s Pictures: An Index
  • LIFE’s Reports
  • Speaking of Pictures: Book Match Covers
  • LIFE Goes to a Hexing Party
  • Pictures to the Editors