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Life Magazine, August 30, 1948 - Colleen Townsend

Life Magazine, August 30, 1948 - Colleen Townsend

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

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

Life Magazine, August 23, 1948 - Women with pet deer

Original Life Magazine from August 23, 1948 - Women with pet deer
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These issues are in pretty good shape. These are great for those who want a complete, original, average condition issue to read and enjoy. They may have some light to moderate flaws like small tears, spots, library stamps etc. but would make a great piece of history for the budget minded to mark any occasion.
Some of the contents in this issue
Full page movie poster ad for “The Babe Ruth Story.” The wiggle test shows how children like movies. American athletes sweep the Olympics, mostly track and field photos, Almet Kirecci wrestler. The mystery of the kidnapped Russian Mrs. Oksana Stepanova Kosenkina. Arizona deputy dies saving boy, John D. Anderson and Guy Rockefeller, Jr. in Upper Sabino Canyon. Revolution on the farm, includes photos of Emerson Hurich, Vic Bell, Mrs. Leo Hutcheson, Bob Garst, Coon Rapids, Iowa and others. Full page color Kentucky Tavern whiskey art art by Reno Biondi. Photo essay - Swedish summer, many great photos including Solveig Lundqvist, and two teenagers bicycling. College fashions, in color with black backgrounds - striking! Typhoon laboratory in Azusa, California. Artists paint Michigan, David Fredenthal, Ogden Pleissner, Aaron Bohrod, Carlos Lopez, Arnold Blanch, John DeMartelly, Doris Lee. Full page Stinson airplane ad with Mr. and Mrs. John L. Lovett, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Oh-la-la - full page color Van Heusen shirts ad with a mermaid. Movie - “Sorry, wrong number.” Nation's biggest house builder, Bill Levitt and Levittown homes, includes startling and somewhat awful photos showing a whole large subdivision (2,000 houses) built in only four months. Full page Bates fabric ad with Ann Gestie (U Mich), Barbara Coith (Rollins College), Barbara Gartley (Stephens), Allen Koenig (U. NC), Bob Chappuis (U. Mich. football). Life visits the MacDowell Music colony. Alpine high wire, Siegwart Bach at Zugspitze in German. Illegitimate children left behind after the war. Very, very nice full page color Coca-Cola ad with people on a train.
Speaking of pictures
16
CHILDREN'S film library
Mystery of the kidnaped Russian
23
Oksana Stepanovna KASENKINA
American athletes sweep the Olympics
28
Olympic Games, 1948 (London, England), Olympic athletes
Portrait
30
Maureen GARDNER, Bob Mathias, Emil Zatopek; 1922-2000, Fanny Blankers-Koen; 1918-., Vicki Manalo DRAVES,
Ahmet KIRECCI
, Bob GARST, Marian Griswold Nevins MacDowell; 1857-1956, Amy BONNER, Mary Colum; 1887-1957,
Louis Guglielmi
, Jone PEDERSEN
Big four, big lift
35
Berlin (Germany) (History, Blockade, 1948-1949)
Typhoon laboratory
59
Engineering models, Guam
Artists paint Michigan
65
Exhibitions, Traveling, Michigan
Sorry, wrong number
70
Motion picture reviews (Single works)
Nation's biggest housebuilder
75
William Levitt; 1907-1994, Houses, Prefabricated
Swedish summer
81
Recreation (Sweden)
Big lift
35
Berlin (Germany) (History, Blockade, 1948-1949)
Death of a rescuer of amateur mountain climber
36
John D. Anderson; 1943-., Accidents
Babies they left behind them
41
Illegitimacy
College fashions for women
45
Clothing and dress
Another loved one
50
Earl Carroll, Cemeteries
Bucky the deer
53
Deer
Goldfish sweepstakes
90
Goldfish racing
Olympic gold medal winners
92
Olympic Games, 1948 (London, England)
Revolution on the farm
95
Agriculture (Iowa)
Life visits the MacDowell colony
107
MacDowell Colony
Alpine high wire
112
Siegwart BACH, Acrobats and acrobatism