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Life Magazine, October 14, 1940 - Jinx Falkenburg

Life Magazine, October 14, 1940 - Jinx Falkenburg

Life Magazine, September 30, 1940 - Wendell Wilkie

Life Magazine, September 30, 1940 - Wendell Wilkie

Life Magazine, October 7, 1940 - Gary Cooper

Original Life Magazine from October 7, 1940 - Gary Cooper
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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
Germany, Italy and Japan unite against the US. Mississippi gets new electric chair. Neat half page Boxco milk amplifier ad (a kind of nutritional supplement) with boys playing football. World's biggest car ferry is launched in Lake Michigan - City of Midland. Excellent full page color Pan American coffee producers ad with art by J. C. Leyendecker, grandpa and grandchild having coffee and donuts. Nice full-color International truck ad. Parents wage tug-of-war for custody of daughter Jacqueline Long. June Preisser tries a milk bath. Campaign button fad sweeps country. Robert Sherwood urges an English-speaking union. The war moves into Africa. Photo essay - the bombing of London. Welfare hospital specializes in Oldsters' chronic diseases, includes some strange-looking medical treatments such as the glass boot. Pretty model Suzie is Mrs. Steve Hannagan. Ed Wynn brings new show to Broadway. Colorado Springs fine arts center. Screwball team writes 90% of all commercial radio jingles. Kids learn how to shoot straight at Camp Perry, Ohio. New plane is nearly foolproof, Ercoupe. One-legged Jitterbug. Connecticut tobacco harvest at Harold Turner's Troy lot near East Windsor. Great, bright, two page color DeSoto car ad with red convertible. Nice full page color Pall Mall cigarettes ad with art by John Falter, marksmen. Nice full page Camel cigarettes ad with pilot Tommy Tomlinson.
One-legged jitterbug
10
Jack JOYCE

We kids elected a congressman
14
Gene WORLEY, Political campaigns

War poems
20
World War, 1939-1945 (Poetry)

Germany, Italy and Japan brandish a united sword in threat against U.S.
27
Tripartite Pact (1940)

Portrait
27
Joachim von Ribbentrop; 1893-1946

Hong Kong's men of many races hold ragged end of Britain's famed thin red line of empire in the Far East
28
Hong Kong

Class A naval base guards the white man's stake in east Asia
30
Singapore

Wendell Willkie states his stand
32
Wendell Lewis Willkie; 1892-1944

Willkie carries his crusade to the West
34
Wendell Lewis Willkie; 1892-1944

Geriatrics
45
Old age, New York (N.Y.) (Hospitals)

Famous press agent lives up to reputation for spotting beauties
50
Stephen Jerome HANNAGAN, Brewster) (Mrs Stephen Jerome Hannagan HANNAGAN

Boys and girls together
57
Musicals, revues, etc (Reviews, Single works)

Ed Wynn is at his barmy best in new Broadway hit Boys and girls together
57
Ed Wynn; 1886-1966

This is work at Colorado Springs fine arts center
65
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center

Now autumn leaves flare and fall and only the evergreens are left
68
Evergreens, Leaves

Westerner
73
Motion picture reviews (Single works)

Strange people make strange songs to market their wares on the air
78
Radio broadcasting (Music)

Bombing of London
85
London (England) (History, Bombardments, 1939-1945)

Button, button, everyone has button as a campaign fad sweeps country
96
Campaign buttons, posters, etc

Plan for union
98
United States (Foreign relations, Great Britain), Great Britain (Foreign relations, United States)

War moves into Africa
104
World War, 1939-1945 (Campaigns and battles, Africa), Africa

Camp Perry
111
NATIONAL rifle and pistol matches, Camp Perry (Ohio)

New plane is nearly foolproof
114
Airplanes

Tobacco harvest in East Windsor, Conn
116
Tobacco