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1939-12-18 Life Magazine Contents Page for December 18, 1939

1939/12/18 — Cover featuring Canadian General Andrew McNaughton is credited to John Phillips

Contents of this issue are as follows:

THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • German Aerial Cameras Spy Out the Military Secrets of Britain
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • Isador Lubin Warns Monopoly Committee of High War Prices
  • Swedes Dig Fast While Orpheus Sings in Hall
  • Spanish Fascists Rebury Their Martyr with Kings
  • 60,000 Clevelanders Eat Short Rations as Ohio Relief Funds Fail
  • Communist Unpopularity Hits Record Low in Incidents on West Coast

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Canada at War – U.S. Neighbor Girds for Action

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • David O. Selznick – The Man Who Made “Gone With the Wind”

    • MUSIC:

  • Swing Loses Lead Among Best Selling Records

    • SCIENCE:

  • The Eye – Mankind’s Efficiency Depends On Its Most Precious Sense

    • SPORTS:

  • Porpoises Leap and Tumble in Gulf Stream
  • Little Wisconsin Town Produces Most Famous Pro Football Team – About the Green Bay Packers

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Knitting “Comfort Requirements” for British Fighters
  • Toys of War and Peace – Children Choose Them to Mimic Parents

    • MOVIES:

  • “The Light That Failed” featuring Ronald Colman and Ida Lupino
  • Linda Darnell Becomes a Star at 16

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures — These Are From Mara Hari ‘s Scrapbook
  • LIFE Calls on Patricia Prochnik, Diplomatic Debutante
  • 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

    • 1941-06-02 Life Magazine Contents June 2 1941

    1941/06/02 — Cover photograph featuring Sunday School is credited to Alfred Eisenstaedt

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • U.S. Steps Up Campaign to Combat Axis in Latin America
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • Hess Stands by Fuhrer in Reichstag Six Days Before Deserting Company
  • Nazis Wreck Great Monuments of English Culture – 4 pages of photos including full-page Big Ben
  • New Yorkers Jame Rally for U.S. Service Men’s Clubs
  • LIFE and Fortune Men Among Passengers Rescued as Germans Sink “Zamzam”

  • Mexican Maneuvers Reveal Equipment Deficiencies
  • Man-Made Lakes and Rivers Turn 20,000,000 U.S. Acres into Bloom
  • New York Art Directors Club Picks “Most Beautiful Legs”

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Sunday School Fights for God & Country with Modern Methods

    • ARTICLE:

  • Belgium Is Hungry by John Cudahy

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Exercises Aid Sleep

    • NATURAL HISTORY:

  • World’s Smallest Hippopotamus Arrives in U.S.

    • ART:

  • Sculptor Robert Laurent

    • SPORTS:

  • Satchel Paige – Negro Ballplayer, Is Great Pitcher – Covers 3 pages though excluding ads fills 2 total, with 9 photos of Paige including 3 in uniform with the New York Black Yankees, a shot at the barber shop, one shooting pool, one playing piano, etc.

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: How to Shoot in a Western
  • LIFE’s Reports: New Dealers vs. Dollar-a-Year Man
  • LIFE Visits the Statue of Liberty
  • Pictures to the Editors
  • Camel Cigarettes ad on back cover features golf legend Ben Hogan

    • 1942-12-07 Life Magazine Contents December 7 1942

    1942/12/07 — Cover photograph featuring Marine Ace Captain John L. Smith is credited to Nelson Morris

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • The Allies Launch World Offensive
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • Lily Pons Carries Fighting French Flag in “Daughter of the Regiment”
  • Captain Rickenbacker and Crew Recuperate on Pacific Isle
  • The Boston Holocaust
  • Prison War Workers Build Ships & Produce War Goods
  • Deaf People Sing National Anthem at Victory Dance

    • ARTICLES:

  • Report from Tokyo by Joseph C. Grew
  • Captain Smith and HIs Fighting 223 by Richard Wilcox

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • War Metals

    • MOVIES:

  • Preston Sturges’ “Palm Beach Story” starring Claudette Colbert

    • NAVY:

  • Torpedo Bomber Planes Are Scourge of Ships

    • NIGHT CLUB:

  • Copacabana Girls Are Among Broadway’s Loveliest (includes Lucille Bremer)

    • ART:

  • Edward Laning Paints Santa Fe Railway at War

    • BOOKS:

  • “New Yorker” Arts Fills New Cartoon Albums – Includes 2 pages each of reproductions of Gluyas Williams and Charles Addams cartoons
  • PRESS:
  • LIFE Presents the Great OWI Picture Pulp Plot

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: British Strip-Tease Tells How to Save Fuel
  • LIFE’s Reports: Fighting Day at an Airdrome by Roy Alexander
  • LIFE Visits the Gould Mansion
  • Pictures to the Editors

    • 1939-10-09 Life Magazine Contents October 9 1939

    1939/10/09 — Cover photograph featuring Kids Football is credited to Alfred Eisenstaedt

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • New War Fails to Panic Veterans of Old One
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • Queen Elizabeth Looks Over London’s Air-Raid Precautions
  • Germany and Britain Present Conflicting Evidence on Plane vs. Battleship
  • Two British Flying Boats Rescue Crew of Torpedoed Tramp Steamer
  • Heroic Polish Defense of Westerplatte Ends as nazi Mop-up of Poland Begins
  • How the Germans Overran Poland in Four Weeks

    • CLOSE-UP

  • Edouard Daladier

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • The Low Countries – Belgium and The Netherlands Are ready to Right with Guns and Floods

    • MOVIES:

  • “Hollywood Calvalcade”

    • SPORTS:

  • Best Young Baseballers are Owned by Yankee Farm System

    • ART:

  • A Great Newspaper Builds a Great Art Museum – The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery

    • SCIENCE:

  • Technicians Design Model Rockets Hoping for Transatlantic Flight

    • RELIGION:

  • Four-year-old boy becomes Dalai Lama of Tibet

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Oldtime Country Square Dancing Returns to Fashion in Big Cities
  • Bunchy Necklaces Are Worn to Balance Bustles

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Marlene Dietrich Hits a New High in Movie Roughhouse
  • People
  • LIFE Goes to a Kids’ Football Game
  • Pictures to the Editors

    • 1944-08-07 Life Magazine Contents August 7 1944

    1944/08/07 — Cover photograph featuring Geraldine Fitzgerald is credited to Philippe Halsman

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • Battle of the Hedgerows – New U.S. Offensive in Normandy
  • Editorial: World ‘Realism’ 1944
  • First Negro Votes in Texas Democratic Primary
  • Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. Buried – 2 pages
  • Explosion in Germany – An attempt on Hitler’s life as bomb explodes in Hitler’s headquarters in Berchtsgarden on July 20 – 2 pages
  • Santayana
  • Mexican Soldier’s Disgrace

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Senator Byrd of Virginia by Gerald W. Johnson

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Movie Illusions – Hollywood Technicians Create Reality Inside Studios – 9 pages packed with photos

    • BOOKS:

  • “I Never Left Home” by Bob Hope

    • MOVIE:

  • “Wilson” – 3-1/2 pages

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Backyard Cooking
  • Swedish Glass

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: A Baby’s Afternoon from Bath to Bath
  • LIFE’s Reports: The Mules of Myitkyina by Peggy Durdin
  • LIFE Calls on the Earl of Athlone
  • Pictures to the Editors

    • 1945-06-16 Colliers Magazine Contents June 16 1945

    1945/06/16 — Cover featuring General Brehon B. Somervell is credited to Bob Leavitt

    Contents as follows:
    FICTION:

  • “Army Wedding” by Max Hampton and illustrated by Wendell Kling
  • “One Love in a Lifetime” — The Short Short Story by Louise Roedocker with illustration by John Holmgren
  • “Twelve-Hour Pass” by Starr Paret and illustrated by Michael
  • “The First Rifle” by Frank O’Rourke and illustrated by John Pike
  • “Woman at Bay” — Part 3 of 4 — by George Harmon Coxe and illustrated by Mario Cooper
  • “Heaven Like a Tent” by Grace Amundson and illustrated by Edwin Dawes

    • ARTICLES

  • Terror in Japan by Mark Gayn
  • I Testify: by William L. Chenery with photo of the wreckage of Nuremberg
  • Old Town by Dale White features Charlie Bovey of Great Falls, Montana
  • Fascist Finale by James E. Roper and John Chabot Smith looks at the Partisans of Northern Italy
  • Kentucky Doctor by Timothy J. Sullivan
  • I Soloed in 76 Minutes by Jim Marshall
  • Gremlins in the Garden by Bill Davidson
  • Evans’ Faces by Robert Bellaire
  • Every Dad Had His Day by Henry L. Jackson

    • PLUS:

  • “Keep Up With the World” by Freling Foster
  • Wing Talk by Capt. Earl J. Wilson, USMC
  • The Heroes: A Gallery of United Nations Portraits – No. 34 – Jose Aboulker by George Creel
  • The Week’s Work by Amy Porter
  • Editorials: Beware a Land Boom – First Aid for Congressmen – College Colossus