Life Magazine, September 28, 1942 - Admiral Leahy

Willkie sells US victory to the Middle East - trying to get the Moslems on "our side." Curious bunch of photos in which British censors have whited out areas on military importance, such as bridges. Full page Piper aircraft ad for learning to fly. 4,500 model planes hang in Chicago's Union Station. Full page Prudential insurance ad with baseball player Bob Grady. USS Yorktown is sunk. US fighting men in Alaska, the Aleutians, including Morgan A. Griffin, D.M. Van Ornum, R. Dale. Nancy Love commands WAFS. William Jeffers. Smith College girls and their excellent job prospects during war time, including photos of Edwina Golding, Anita Livingston Willis, Barbara Pierson Taylor, Marian Frances Carpenter, Suzanne Cook Vroom, Georgina Dale Harris. Miss America is Jo-Carroll Dennison, 34-22-34. Aerial navigation. Heavy bombers, airplanes. Excellent full page Fleischmann's Yeast ad for bread, with workman eating his lunch. Wisconsin barn art by Frank Engebretson of Brodhead, Wisconsin. Foreign seamen in New York City. Ever so charming full page color Karo syrup ad with toddler at desk. Yankees win American League baseball championship, includes Joe DiMaggio and many others. Scooters for kids with war themes. Extraordinarily studly airman by John Falter in this full page Vultee aircraft color ad. Eight days in a lifeboat, story by Chanler A. Chapman. Columbus, Ohio Country Club.