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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

    • 1938-10-03 Life Magazine Contents Page for October 3, 1938

    1938/10/03 — Cover featuring Czech Soldier is credited to Margaret Bourke-White

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:
    Threat of War:

  • Inside the Maginot Line
  • Outside the Siegfried Line
  • The Changing Map of Europe
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • War or Peace: Chamberlain Flies to Hitler
  • Girls Color Legion’s Los Angeles Convention
  • Hurricane Sweeps Long Island and New England
  • The First LIFE House Starts Up

    • THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Negroes – The U.S. Also Has a Minority Problem — 11 pages packed with photos

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • The Rise and Decline of Benito Mussolini by G.A. Borgese

    • MOVIES:

  • “That Certain Age”
  • … and Deanna Durbin Devotees in Action

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Taxi Exercises for Busy Girls

    • SPORTS:

  • Artist Brodie Reports on the Pennant-Winning Yankees

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures — Football Foolishness
  • LIFE Goes to a Party With the Windsors on the Riviera
  • Pictures to the Editors