Life Magazine, February 17, 1947 - Champion Water-skier

Original Life Magazine from February 17, 1947 - Champion Water-skier

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Some of the contents in this issue

Ibn Saud visits American partners (Saudi Arabian oil deal). Little follow-up letters pertaining to the photo of Judy Andrews wearing slotted goggles for snow-glare and skiing, (LIFE January 27, 1946). Conviction of Magda Fontanges, Gestapo agent. Wounded cop Arthur Olson in Chicago shoots it out with thugs. US Army conducts arctic operations. US dumps 20 million bushels of rotting potatoes. Comintern agent. Powel Crosley, Jr - with his 1947 Crosley midget car. Really neat full page color photo of huge propellers in a Bethlehem Steel Company shop. Peoples of NY - photo essay, including photos of Anna Vanek, Spiros Mataragas, Costas Paranicas, Edward Wozniak, Angelina and Rosario Como, Louis and Margaret Hegedus, Helen Schwager, Kamala Mukerji, Arthur Seraydarian, Simon Stol and others. Billboard blimps. El Borracho. Cute full page color Post-tens, Post cereals ad with the Herbert Hinckley family of Hartsdale, New York, art and photo. Blanket fashions by Emily Wilkens. Sports - King of the Mile, runner Gilbert Lothair Dodds. Full page "Fresh-up with Seven-up" ad with kids around a table for a birthday party, "Many Happy Returns." Abstract Artist Stuart Davis. Cute full page movie poster ad for "The Farmer's daughter." US Army conducts arctic operations, Lann field near Fairbanks, Task force Williwaw. Movie - "The Yearling." Bethlehem Steel's propeller shop on Staten Island, great color photo.

Table of Contents

Speaking of pictures	6
Nance STILLEY, WATER skis and ski running
Ibn Saud visits American partners	23
Ibn Saud (King of Saudi Arabia); 1880-1953
Democracy	28
Democracy
Picture of the week	28
Arthur OLSON
U.S. army conducts arctic operations	30
POLAR warfare
Yearling	65
Motion picture reviews (Single works)
Claude Jarman went to Hollywood because of his long yellow hair	68
Claude Jarman (Jr.)
Billboard blimps	74
Aerial advertising
Why artists are going abstract	78
Stuart Davis; 1892-1964, Art, Abstract
King of the mile	85
Gilbert Lothair DODDS
Duce's old flame convicted as spy	34
Magda FONTANGES, Spies
Cold potatoes	36
Potatoes
Open the door, Richard!	39
Songs, American
Propeller shop	45
Propellers
Powel Crosley, jr	47
Powel Crosley; 1886-1961, Compact cars
El Borracho	56
New York (N.Y.) (Restaurants)
Nightclubs	60
Nightclubs
Peoples of New York	89
New York (N.Y.) (Population)
Career of Gerhart Eisler as a Comintern agent	99
Hans Berger, Julius Eisman, pseuds Eisler, Communist Party (U.S.)
College cheating	113
Cheating (Education)
Washington crosses the Delaware again, college boys re-enact a famous incident	118
George Washington; 1732-1799 (Statues, portraits, etc)
Over the rail	122
Accidents
Halsey has bow-tie trouble	124
William Frederick Halsey; 1882-1959

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