Life Magazine, August 16, 1948 - Boy in straw hat

Full page Ipana tooth paste ad with Taffy Wood and her children. Neat full page color Mobiloil ad with car setting the speed record on salt flats "For John Cobb, for Mauri Rose, for you." Attractive full page color Chevrolet ad with blue two door car on black background. Gorgeous full page color movie poster ad for “Joan of Arc” with Ingrid Bergman. Americans rush abroad. Portuguese Naval cadets bid farewell to New York, sailing ship Sagres. Spy hearing continues in Washington. Oskaloosa, Iowa and the big rift, mayor wanted to remove big shade trees to make a four-lane highway, residents wanted to keep them (of course!). Film frames of killer Robert Murl. Article - General Spaatz on Atomic warfare. Photo essay - Imperial valley. Photo essay - Queen Wilhelmina. Aviation - the Stratocruiser with Gorgeous two page color spread of the Stratocruiser air plane, with cut-away to show inside, plane NC1023V. Colorado's Red Rocks music amphitheater. Lehmbruck sculpture. Racing greyhound River Border, Greyhound dog racing. Two page color Goodyear tires ad with H. LeRoy Adams (Denver, Colorado), Bill Fleming Jr. (Slater, Iowa), and G.E. Daley (Pine Point, Maine). . New brain operation for mental illness, thalamotomy. Actor Montgomery Clift. Life goes to Huck Finn day, including Randall Armstron. Activationism, with Ann Converse and others - a kind of religious zeal, Milton Hood Ward. Nice photo of Queen Wilhelmina on a bicycle (full article, too). Full page color De Beers diamonds ad with art of Mrs. William Budge, by Eznar Hansen The Foreign car invasion. Full page color MacMillian oil ad with portrait of Carl A. Person, art by Earl Blossom. Full page color Chesterfield cigarettes ad with William Bendix, starring in "The Babe Ruth Story", baseball theme.