Life Magazine, December 11, 1939 - Betty Grable

Full page color Toastmaster ad with Santa and his file drawers of gift answers. Germany's Deutschland sinks British cruiser, illustration by Leydenfrost. British warplanes are towed across Canadian border. China moves its industry to the interior. Japanese capture Nanning. On Sadie Hawkins day girls chase boys in 201 colleges, Dorothy Ditterline, Harold Hackney, Mildred McCans, Howard Young, Gordon Herring at Texas Weslyan. Reds attack Finland by land, air and sea. Full page color Coca-cola ad with Santa in his holly-print easy chair. Photo essay - Kansas girls at State University, sororities, Theta House, Marilyn McBride, Edna Givens, Margaret Stiikey, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Doris Johnson, Helen johnson, Dorothy Jean Roberts gets pinned. Jawaharlal Nehru - close-up. Cole Porter writes Broadway's top sophisticated songs. John Sloan, teacher-painter, with some color images of his work. Boxing commission fails to make Harry Thomas talk. Life in a blackout, drawings by Wallace Morgan. New covered-up fashions may mean a strip tease on southern beaches, Palm Springs Racquet Club. Hollywood holds birthday party for year-old fingernails, Juliette Marglen. Dorothy Maynor, Negro singer from Virginia makes concert debut in New York. US Army has finest rifle, Garands. English release propaganda film. Full page color Coty perfumes ad, gift sets for the holidays. Children study animals, stuffed and alive, at Boston's Children's Museum. Full page color Fleischmann's Gin ad with sumptuous painting of Wood Ducks in flight by unnamed artist. Musicians made of fruit by Henry Rox, Mt. Holyoke College. Basketball game at Salem, Indiana. Half page Quaker State motor oil ad with ski theme art by Gilbert Bundy. Fair (All Good / Very Good, but back cover has a chip in the blank margin of the corner)