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Life Magazine
January 7, 1946 : Cover - Winston Churchill painting.
Grim Europe faces winter of misery. Americans are losing the
victory. Konoye commits suicide. General Patton is laid to
rest. Girl Pilot escapes death in test drop of plane by chute,
Elizabeth Gardner. GIs keep prison watch on Nazi criminals.
Close-up - Preston Sturges. Photo essay - Wall
Street. Veterans at College. Glitter gloves. Cute series of
photo of Carole Landis dancing behind a flaming paper hoop.
Oldest man in the US dies, James Walter Wilson. Life goes
to an Imperial duck hunt in Japan. Nice two page color Schlitz
beer ad. Nice full page color Fisher auto body ad.
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January 14, 1946 : Cover - Southern resort
fashions, Rita Daigle. Very nice full page Lincoln ad
with a yellow car. Canada mines uranium in Arctic near
Great Bear Lake. Patton's dog waits to come home.
Stamford unions stage small general strike. LaGuardia
leaves city hall. Child of divorce fights for mother,
Margaret Miller. China's children shift for themselves.
Backstage at the Met. Close-up - William Benton.
Photo essay - Southern resort fashions in color.
Army University in Biarritz. Princeton trains promising
diver, Eugene Buttle. The Great Electro-mechanical brain
- this was called a Differential analyzer and
looks like an early computer. Letters to MacArthur.
Artist depicts stories of Eskimo gods. A debut in Washington.
Very nice full page color Coca-color ad on back cover.
Neat full page Stinson voyager 150 ad, airplane. Nice
full page color Carnation Milk ad. Cute full page color
movie poster ad for Kitty starring Paulette Goddard.
G - $18
Life Magazine January
21, 1946 : Cover - Cardinal-designate Spellman,
close-up article, Part 1. Very nice full page color
Pontiac ad with blue streamliner sedan with silver streak
styling. Nice full page color Mercury ad with green
car. CIO forces showdown with industry. French mayor
unwillingly marries French veteran to German girl. Curley
inaugurated fourth time as Boston's mayor. Two-headed
baby dies. Truman gets a big yacht, 244 foot. Monte
Carlo tries to make comeback. Photo essay - American
county. Theater - Billion dollar baby. Radiant heating.
Millard Sheets paints an Indian village, Begampur, India.
Wyoming defeats Long Island in Basketball. How DDT kills
a mosquito. College stunt night, Mather College. California
family makes fortune out of flotsam, Weldon Eli Hedley
of Trade Winds Trading Company. Neat full page color
Canadian club ad inside back cover with rapelling and
mountaineering with William Hunter. Nice full page color
International Harvester ad.
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Magazine January 28, 1946 : Cover - Jan
Clayton in Show Boat. Winston Churchill's secret
war speech to House of Commons. Hard to believe, but
here it is - a full page color Pan-Cake Make-up
ad, for real. Very nice full page color Kotex ad with
couple in evening clothes. US Steel's Fairless
offers hand to CIO's Murray. Violence breaks out
as Nation's strikes spread. UNO holds first meeting
in London. 82nd marches in big parade. Close-up -
Cardinal-designate Spellman, part 2. Photo essay -
Revolt in Java. Elk evacuation from island in Snoqualmie
River, Washington. Mutation minks. New markings guide
nylon buyers. Theater - Show boat. Life sails
the inland waterway on Schooner Levin J. Marvel from
Baltimore to Miami. Nice full page color Ford ad with
Grey car.
G - $18
F (All G, but cover has penciled words) - $8
F (All G, but one corner
water marked) - $8
Life Magazine February
4, 1946 : Cover - Hope and Crosby. A second
secret Churchill speech. The great steel strike begins,
good photos of empty railroad sidings and more. Southern
senators filibuster on FEPC, Fair Employment Practice
Commission. Marshall engineers truce in China. Man reaches
moon with radar. Photo essay - Sunday at Hirohito's.
Rita Hayworth's $60,000 wardrobe. Dr. Ley's
brain. Tourist Florida. Streptomycin. Roadable plane,
this is an airplane that is also a car, invented by
Ted Hall and built by Willis Brown - really odd
looking! Life tries out new plastic balloons, these
look like today's exercise balls. Nice full page
color Gas ad with a kitchen and laundry room. Nice full
page color Du Barry beauty ad with skis in background.
Very nice full page color Royal Crown Cola ad with Rita
Hayworth.
G - $25
F (All G, nice, but cover has faint water mark)
- $10
Life Magazine February
11, 1946 : Cover - Lincoln Memorial. Alfred Eisenstaedt
photos of Japanese coming home from Lost Empire. Mr.
Churchill goes to races at Hialeah. Lady Astor returns
to Virginia. Navy man wins biggest Jackpot, Richard
Bartholomew of Fayetteville, Arkansas. Hooton measures
people for new Railway seat. Photo essay - War surgery.
Close-up - Phillip Murray. Electronic blanket. Young
dance team is new nightclub hit, Greb and Lober. Life
crosses the Atlantic on "Queen Elizabeth."
Tassel stocking caps. Miss Minelayer, Adel Mara. Super
full page color Coca-Cola ad on back cover with military
personnel in train. Nice full page color Pullman-Standard
ad.
VG - $24
G - $18
F (Generally G, but has scattered small and faint
water marks) - $8
Life Magazine February
18, 1946 : Cover - Dorothy McGuire. Nice
full page color Ford ad with grey car. Nice full page
color Koroseal ad, synthetic car seat covers by B.F.
Goodrich. War brides come home to the US, 456 women
and 170 babies from Britain on board the Argentina.
Roosevelt's stamps bring high prices. Japanese
train for tea ceremony. Close-up - Dimitri Mitropoulos.
Photo essay - Bel Geddes model's reconstruct
Battle of Midway. Movie - The spiral staircase.
California comet man, Clarence L. Friend. University
of Arizona art collection. Short Hair. Mepham wrestlers
set high school record of 100 wins. William Steig spoofs
people everybody knows. Inflation in Hungary. Life visits
nine hopeful starlets : Nancy Saunders, Debra Alden,
Virginia Huston, Martha Hyer, Mimi Berry, Bonnie Blair,
Vonne Lester, Jane Greer, and Nan Leslie. Bubble gum
returns. Cute full page color Old Gold cigarettes ad
with skiers by Clark Agnew.
EXC - $31
VG - $24
G - $18
F (All G, but spine rolled and cover soiled)
- $8
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Life Magazine February
25, 1946 : Cover - Field Trial, Tarheelia's
Lucky Strike, a pointer. Beautiful full page color 1847
Rogers Bros. silverplate ad. US denounces Argentine
fascism. Pearl Harbor records piles up, pages of testimony.
Indian riots bring violence in Bombay. Arab kings meet.
What's wrong with our Army? Second class citizens.
Close-up - Mary Roberts Rhinehart. Photo essay
- The Rock Island, Midwestern Railroad. Carbon
13. Breeders develop new types of pedigreed orchids,
in color. Stiff petticoats. Champion US long distance
swimmer, James McLane. Movie - Bedlam. Oriental
gentleman cuts occidental figures on ice. Diva in trousers,
Francis Greer. Neat full page color International Truck
ad with loggers and water flume. Cute full page color
Dextrose sugar ad with kids at Candy shop window.
G - $18
P (All VG, but back cover missing) - $5
Life Magazine March 4, 1946
: Cover - Figure Skater, Gretchen Van Zandt Merrill. Palm
Beach has big season. Texas dog watches sewer for month. St.
Bernard monks carry on rescue work. New "dark" bread
saves wheat. Vienna. Starvation treatment. Trip to the moon
- color art by Chesley Bonestell. Angus bulls and heifers
bring record prices. Thirteen-foot geranium.
G - $18
Life
Magazine March 11, 1946 : Cover - Senator
Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan. The Pope creates new
cardinals. Philadelphia police corner striker. "Bungalow
Biddy" lays concrete houses - Robert Gilmour LeTourneau.
Article - report on the occupation by John Dos Passos.
Close-up - Hormel, the Spam man. Photo essay - 33 senators
face election. Chicago Black Hawks lead hockey league.
Movie - "make Mine Music" with several pages of color
art from the Disney movie. Painter Julio de Diego. Atomic
bomb effects. Nice full page color Lincoln ad with red
Continental coupe. Amazing Japanese tattoos, whole body.
Modern living - Naked at Bergdorf Goodman's with Stasia
Linder. Flying Tigers start freight airline. Life goes
to a dancing school. Diaper Service Institue of America
gains attention by dressing chorus girls in diapers,
Lynne Walker, Ruth Merlyn and Candy Tockstein. Nice
full page color Stetson ad with TWA airline theme.
F (All G, nice,
but cover rubbed) - $8
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Magazine March 18, 1946 : Cover - Paris and Eiffel
tower, 1946. Nice full page color Pepsodent toothpaste
ad. Protestants plan for peace. Russians strip Manchurian
factory. Geisha girls still practice old profession.
New and old volcanoes act up, Baluchistan, Honshu island
in Japan, Mt Ruapehu in New Zealand. Army reveals secret
PW education system. Close-up - Senator Claghorn. Photo
essay - Paris. Hard water - science. New York City's
Dream Airport - a really, really unusual plan to build
a raised airport OVER the city. Roses, in color. New
Young styles. Movie - Dragonwyck. Bobsled racing. Hitler's
dream of Berlin. Nice full page color White Rock sparkling
water ad inside back cover. Nice full page color Greyhound
ad with western scene that looks a lot like Garden of
the Gods.
VG - $24 
G - $18
F (Inside VG, cover
and outer page are rougher) - $8
F (All G, but has water
marked margin) - $8
Life Magazine March
25, 1946 : Color cover - Lucille Bremer, Fred
Astaire's dancing partner. Nice full page color Ford
ad with blue car and winter mountain scene. Russians
strip Manchurian industry. Magician attempts to rouse
spirit of Clarence Darrow. Michigan glacier runs amok
- pack ice from lake blows into Saginaw Bay in over
night gale and destroys a number of homes, covering
some - amazing photos. Monetary conference meets in
Savannah. The Modeling industry. Close-up - Spruille
Braden. Photo essay - Bikini, atom bomb atoll. St. Bernards
is town bum. George W. Bellows, artist. Giant X-Ray.
Movie - Ziegfried follies. Japanese Christian relics.
Johnny Camera. Cougar hunt in Okanogan county, Washington.
Nice full page color White Horse whisky ad. Webster's
cartoons blast radio. Train inspector does miniatures.
Life goes to the Mardi Gras. The farmer wants a wife,
Arthur Birnstengel from Grantsburg, Wisconsin. Nice
full page color movie poster ad for "Diary of a Chambermaid"
starring Paulette Goddard. Very cute full page color
National confectioners' Association ad for Candy, with
heart - great for Valentine's day.
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April 1, 1946 : Cover - Cardinal's
pitcher, Charles "Red" Barrett. Paris makes
fashion comeback, Aga Khan is weighed in diamonds, Operation
frostbite tests arctic carrier warfare, Goring proudly
defends his nazi record, Progressive party disbands,
Man who pushed Pearl Harbor, Douglas Leigh, Holy Land
- photo essay, Fuller house, Moune, Geiger counter.
VG - $27
G - $20
G /F - (back cover has some edge damage including
a damp stain at edge that travels faintly onto the back
few pages.
One page wrinkled in press. Center spread present, but
bumped at edge and detached from staples). - $8
Life Magazine
April 8, 1946 : Cover - Cirus, Clown Lou
Jacobs and giraffe Soudana. Cute full page color A&P
ad with hot cross buns. Super full page color Pepsodent
toothpaste ad. Russia walks out on UNO session. California
couple gets married on horseback, Leona Stone and Dan
T. Snow on the H-H ranch. U.A.W. convention elects Reuther
president. Fathers and sons suffer together for murder,
Heincys' and Dotsons'. Cute full page color
Campbell's chicken soup ad. Close-up - a
year of Truman. Photo essay - Juvenile delinquency.
Movie - vacation from marriage. Flat heels. Mockingbirds,
paintings from life by Roger Tory Peterson - color
plates. Plastic lenses. Actress parodies movie star's
day. Army requisitioning. Life visits the circus in
Florida, Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey circus,
including Mary Jane Miller, Geraldine Hill, Karrel acrobatic
troupe, Frankie Saluto, the flying Otaris, Giustine
Loyal and Ernestine Clarke, Massimiliano Truzzi.
VG - $24
G - $18
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Life Magazine April 15, 1946
: Cover - Spring fashions, Mona Freeman wearing a Lilly
Dache bonnet. US tackles housing shortage. Mine workers take
a "holiday", a strike. French mass murderer convicted,
Marcel Petiot. Chicago saloon has big hat-burning. Major General
Kepner graduates from High School. French nursery cares for
GI war babies. Life forum of human problems - Shall
I remarry? Close-up - the earth and Fathes Lynch. Photo
essay - Sunday clothes in color. Swimming - Breast
stroke. Medicine - cancer. Rare manuscripts. Chinchillas.
Skeezix hires his ex-sergeant. Congressional record by Jack
Beardwood. Life goes to 21. Cute full page color General Electric
radios ad.
VG - $24
G - $18
F (generally G , but
cover foxed and one corner bent) - $8
P (All VG, but lower edge water marked) - $5
Life Magazine April
22, 1946 : Cover - Denver East High School,
Marilyn Rights. Cute full page color Borden's
instant coffee ad. US army suffers disintegration. Editorial
- why men pray, eight familiar prayers. Six horses
finish in England's Grand National. Rightists
win Greek election. Cats, by Roger Butterfield. Close-up
- David Burpee, seed seller. Photo essay -
US high school. Movie - The Virginian. Barbara
Hale. Baseball school, Serra High School, San Mateo,
California. Ice Anesthesia. Shanghailation, by Richard
E. Lauterbach. Cute full page color Can Manufacturers
Institute ad for metal food cans. Nice full page movie
poster ad for Suspense, starring Belita, Barry Sullivan
and others. Odd full page color Western Electric ad
for the Bell Telephone system.
VG - $24
G - $18
Life Magazine April
29, 1946 : Cover - Peiping, China's
beautiful city, with feature photo essay in color. Nice
full page color Max Factor lipstick ad. Russia draws
iron curtain over eastern Europe. Mr. and Mrs. Mickey
Rooney attend Hollywood premiere. Tokyo mob storms Premier's
house. Japanese women vote. Southpaw Truman throws first
ball of season. Mr. Blandings builds his castle. Close-up
- Manolete, Mexico's bullfighting idol.
Oklahoma City venereal study. Dipping hemlines. School
for southern gentlewomen, Judson College, Alabama. Aviation
- radar blind landings. William Thon paints moody
pictures of the sea. Radio - the Fat man, created
by Dashiell Hammett. Movie - The Postman Always
Rings Twice. Indiana glamour lambs. Life goes to Nassau.
California steeplejack climbs chimney, Ralph Clark and
the 170 foot chimney of San Francisco's Western
Sugar Refinery. Cute full page color Kodak film ad with
girl at mailbox.
VG - $24
G - $18
F (all G, except front cover rubbed) - $8
P (All G, but back cover missing) - $5
Life Magazine May 6,
1946 : Cover - Margaret Leighton. US seeks wheat
for the starving. Greed on the farm. Last WAC leaves
Fort Des Moines. Brookly jury acquits Dodgers' Durocher.
Vassar admits veterans. Bedlam 1946 - US mental hospitals.
Emily Post. London's old Vici. Swiss humanity school.
Circulatory systems. Dream House. French corduroy. Boston
marathon. Mont-Saint-Michel.
VG - $29
Life Magazine May 13,
1946 : Cover - Northwest vacation, Kit Carson
fly fishing. This is a great article with photos of
Water skiing, sailing, smoking salmon, Skiing at the
Summit on Snoqualmie pass - includes Joan Pettit, and
Sue Anderson. Millions die in China's famine - a horrific
story with photos. Bob Feller pitches no-hit game. Serge
Rubinstein is held in $500,000 bail. Coal strike cripples
nation. GI jailbreakers battle Paris police. America's
Germany, by Julian Bach Jr. Close-up - Bob Crosby, king
of the Cowboys. Photo essay - Battlefields of Europe,
paintings by Ogden Pleissner. Fiber-glass car. Francie
Pants. Rocket Motor. "Swan Lake" at the Bolshoi. Herman
Keiser plays Pine Valley golf course. Los Angeles Junior
College. Charming full page color Royal Crown Cola ad
with Lizabeth Scott. Nice two page color Schlitz beer
ad with hops field.
VG - $24
G - $18
Life Magazine May 20,
1946 : Color Cover - Ice show, Donna Atwood from
Newton, Kansas and Bobby Specht from Superior, Wisconsin.
Interesting full page color Chrysler ad with machine
that creates a dust storm. Nice full page color movie
poster ad for Heartbeat, starring Ginger Rogers. Black
markets grip US. Nine-year old swallows 18 marbles,
Edward Travis. Nazi women get fat in prison. Train wreck
inquiry - Exposition Flyer hits Advance Flyer on railroad
near Naperville, Illinois. Full page color Budweiser
beer ad with wedding theme. Vermont sorority admits
Negro, Crystal Malone. Photo essay - Iran. New chairs.
Mainbocher is "cheapest" dressmaker. Ice show, new follies.
Television tower for the top of the Empire State building.
Stutterers, science. Life goes to an ideal children's
party, Clapp's baby food company psychologists set up
safe environment. Army paper finds own pin-up girl,
Wanda Ridgeway.
VG - $24
F (all G / VG,
nice, except cover nearly loose from staples) - $12
Life Magazine
May 27, 1946 : Cover - Ozark farmer, Tom Moss.
Cute full page color movie poster ad for "The Bride
wore boots." Very nice full page color Dupont Cellophane
ad with art by Stan Klimley. Very nice full page color
Mercury ad with green wood-sided station wagon and fishermen.
US test rockets in New Mexico. Harvard beauty contest
is sabotaged. Ku Klux Klan tries a comeback at Georgia's
Stone Mountain. Jap war criminals are arraigned. US
Wives arrive in Germany. Article - Liquor by Francis
Sill Wickware, includes recipe and photo of flaming
Vesuvius drink. Close-up - Lloyd C. Douglas. Photo essay
- India's leaders. Ball-game fashion show at Yankee
stadium. College fishing class. Artist Phillip Guston.
Toscanini returns to La Scala. Sailplane soaring, the
Kirby Kite. Movie - "Cluny Brown." Life visits the Ozarks,
including photos of Gerti Ploeser, Powder Mill Ferry,
and more. Photos of Will Rogers, Jr. and Sr.
VG - $24
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Life Magazine
June 3, 1946 : Cover - Children's church singers.
Nice full page movie poster ad for "Our Hearts were
growing up" starring Gail Russell, Diana Lynn, Brian
Donlevy and others, with color. Super nice full page
color Ford ad with green convertible car and lineman.
The great train strike. Henry Ford poses with his first
car. Paris Ball celebrates V-E anniversary. Walkathon
tries stumbling comeback. Manuel Roxas visits US. Farmer
buys a tank, Kamiel Dupre in Illinois. Soviet foreign
policy. Close-up - Ricksha number 34. Photo essay -
busy French girl, Barbara Laage. Waterfilm roof. Fish
genetics. Theater - Annie Get Your Gun. Transportation
- lightship. Epilepsy. Life visits a woman's club, Chevy
Chase club in Washington, D.C. Full page Champion Spark
Plugs ad with color and race cars. Nice full page color
Nash ad with green car. Super two page color Chevrolet
ad with red car.
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water mark in upper margin) - $8
Life Magazine June
10, 1946 : Cover - Donna Reed. California
has a new boom, Phantom killer terrorizes Texarkana,
Flash floods hit US. (NY, PA, Susquehanna River TX),
Dunkirk beach today, Mrs. Vanderbilt has a dinner, Leslie
Biffle, Hairy Ainus - photo essay by Eisenstaedt, Working
sheep dog, Winesburg Ohio, RH factor, Aquacade at Louisiana
state.
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Life Magazine June
17, 1946 : Cover - Play dresses, Mary Wolfers.
Nice full page color Ford ad with red V-8 car and motorcycle.
Cute full page Listerine ad with little "bride." Nice
full page movie poster ad for "Without Reservations"
with Claudette Colbert and John Wayne, with color. Cartoons
about Germany by Don Sheppard. GI's at Harvard. Chicago
La Salle hotel fire kills 60 people, photos include
William Blake alive, but also many gruesome photos.
First pictures show work on atomic pile. Article - The
boxing racket, by John Field and Earl Brown. Photo essay
- Auto's 50 years. Kyoto's shrines. Artist N.C. Wyeth.
Sports - golfers Byron Nelson vs. Richard Burton. Life
goes to a Kansas Town's powwow, Hutchinson, Kansas -
includes photos of Susie Snodgrass, George Nall and
others. Photo of wedding of Jessica McCullar and William
Russell. Neat photo of Genissiat dam under construction
on Rhone in France. Nice two page color Studebaker ad
with red Commander car. Veterans share old mansion in
Greenwich, Connecticut, with photos of Jacob and Marguerite
Omdahl, Virginia and Robert Frank, Walter Clark, Henry
L. Slosson and more.
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June 24, 1946 : Cover - Chief Justice of the
US, Fred M. Vinson. Italian's send their king packing, Sweden's
royal heir is christened, London has victory parade, Baruch
points way to banning atom bomb, Americans steal Hessian jewels,
Nazis' mistress is punished, Abdullah becomes Trans-Jordan
King, Li'l Abner's Capp, Commencement at Monticello college,
New York Nightclubs, Mexican baseball, West Point military
wedding.
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Life Magazine
July 1, 1946 : Cover - Sailing season, Yacht
Mandoo II designed by John Alden. Goods stack up in OPA death
watch. The struggle to change Yellow River's course
in China. German acrobats do "the death walk"
including Margarete Zimmermann and Charlotte Gabel. Bikini
atoll. Close-up - Georges Bidault. Sistine ceiling.
The American Bald Eagle, paintings from life by Roger Tory
Peterson, color plates. Theater stage apprentices. Movies
- the perils of Pauline. Amputees' gait -
science. Infrared photography shows kids' movie reactions.
Life goes to Atwater Kent's parties. Painted blue jeans.
Nice full page color Coca-Cola ad on back cover with picnic
scene. Nice full page color Pullman-standard train ad, four
ladies playing cards.
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Life Magazine July
8, 1946 : Cover - Basque shirt, Jean Welch. Cool
full page color Pontiac ad with silver car. US shows
off superplanes, Northrup's Giant XB-35 flying wing
and Consolidated Vultee XB-36 Bomber - amazing photos.
Hungary suffers terrible monetary inflation. Garrison
dam starts boom and arouses Indians. US in world's no.
1 firetrap. Cornell crew wins western race. "Nana" Hanneford,
76, still works in circus rings. Congregationalists
hold convention. Article - DDT by Anthony Standen. Close-up
- Ethel Merman. Photo essay - Plutonium laboratory,
16 pages with color. "Little girl" clothes. Chinese
pharmacists. Art - the clay club. Duncan Hines. Life
goes to a Princeton reunion. Neat two page color Pennsylvania
railroad ad with American farming theme.
VG - $24
G - $18
F (All G, but cover rough at spine) - $9
Life Magazine July
15, 1946 : Cover - Welded water gadgets, Rita
Daigle with inflatable sea horse. Nice full page color
Ford ad with rusty red convertible car. Cute full page
color Green Giant peas ad. Atomic bomb drops at Bikini.
Editorial - tipping. Parents of Quads are reunited,
William "Red" Thompson and Norah Carpenter. Mihailovich
awaits the verdict. Death of OPA brings price confusion.
Pole sitter takes a wife, this is the famous marriage
on top of a pole, "Mad Marshall" Jacobs and Yolanda
CosMarch Siamese king murdered. Trouble behind the iron
curtain. Close-up - Trout fisherman, Edward Ringwood
Hewitt. Photo essay - farm machines. Head-hunters. "New
Yorker" covers. Welded gadgets. Cornea transplants.
Life reports on Dr. Gandhi. Life visits Yahho. Nice
full page Spalding golf balls ad. Full page movie poster
ad for Alfred Hitchcock's "Notorious" starring Cary
Grant and Ingrid Bergman.
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Life Magazine July
22, 1946 : Cover - Long Island Society : Mrs.
Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney and coachman Walter Douglas.
Full page movie poster ad for "Till the end of time"
starring Dorothy McGuire and Guy Madison. Philippine
republic is born. Suicide on the Empire State Building.
Mother Cabrini is first American saint. Bikini bomb
explodes. Paris students' ball. Russia 1946. Close-up
- Margaret Truman. Photo essay - The North Shore, Long
Island. New Malaria drugs. Bermuda ocean race. Negro
artists win top US honors. The wired bra. Cecil Beaton
sketches Broadway stars. Cheju-do, island of Amazons.
Life goes on a "happiness tour" - a two week train junket.
A rather amazing full page color White Rock sparkling
water ad with the barely clad nymph and Arabic men.
Man hatches ostrich egg, James Moran - very funny photo
and text. Cute full page color DuPont cellophane ad
with man in pajamas.
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Life Magazine
July 29, 1946 : Cover - Vivien Leigh as Cleopatra.
US harvest saves the world, Truman signs British loan, Chicago
police accuse William Heirens of Murder, Talmadge wins Georgia
election, Cleveland Indians try to stop Williams, US communist
party, Ken Kling, Scotland yard - photo essay, Gauguin, Bare
shoulders - style, Talking dog, Migration with Persian tribemen.
G - $23
Life Magazine
August 5, 1946 : Cover - Juvenile Juror, an extremely
cute photo of Glenn Mark Arthurs, age 6. Very nice full page
color Studebaker ad with yellow car. Across the Trans-Siberian
railroad. Mr. Mencken sounds off. Close-up - Justin
Dart. Photo essay - New York by night. Photo essay -
Summer theater. Radio - juvenile jury. Waterfall faucet.
Customs - Isle of Man. Muscle flexers show off at California
beach - muscle beach. Tarawa today. Life visits the
White Mountains. The Diaper derby - a crawling baby
race. Lovely full page color Jewelite hair brush ad. Cute
full page MacMillan oil ad with color.
G - $18
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Magazine August 12, 1946 : Cover - Loretta
Young models a decade of nightgowns and pajamas. Blood
runs i Palestine violence, Boss Crum rides a roller
coaster, Bolivian revolt, "Baker Day" at Bikini,
Midsummer and Jones Beach, Confidence games, Frank Lloyd
Wright, Peter Lind Hayes, Ipsophone, Shriners' convention.
G - $18
F (All G/VG, but cover has minor soil) - $8
Life Magazine
August 19, 1946 : Cover - Old faithful geyser.
Nice full page color Oldsmobile ad with monstrous yellow
convertible car. Nice full page color Kaiser-Fraser
ad with blue and red cars. California bowling alley
murder, La Cienega and Marvin Ashley. Gambling ship,
Lux, converted from mine layer Bunker Hill. Florida
girls go west for beauty contest. Close-up - Harold
Laski. Water skiers compete in National Championship.
Photo essay - Yellowstone National Park. Russian scientists
conduct heart experiments. Movie - the Strange love
of Martha Ivers. Blind golfer, Charles Bowsell. Nice
full page color Pullman-Standard railroad cars ad. Cute
full page color Italian Swiss Colony California wines
ad. Super nice full page color Mennen skin bracer ad
with pinup girl.
VG - $24
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Life Magazine August
26, 1946 : Cover - Fall College Fashions,
Mary Withington. Nice full page movie poster ad for
"Gallant Journey" starring Glenn Ford and
Janet Blair with color. Very nice full page color Morton's
salt ad. Nice series of photos of Heidi Scharf dances
in Berlin's ruins. New Constabulary polices Germany.
France rebuilds her railroads. Molotov broods. Red Pepper
village. Close-up - George Dudley Tilley, the
birdman. Photo essay - the American man. Girl
softball pitcher, Wilda Mae Turner. Movie - Notorious.
Cardshark party. Royal Barry Wills - housing.
Nice full page color Cocal-cola ad on back cover with
county fair theme. Nice full page color Webster cigars
ad on 20th Century Limited train. Full page movie poster
ad for "The strange love of Martha Ivers"
starring Barbar Stanwyck and others with color.
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Life Magazine September
2, 1946 : Cover - Vacation's end, Michael Foster
and Marcia Perry at Cape Cod at Cotuit. Oak Ridge has
Atomic how-down. T-man Irey retires. Man goes out on
a limb, very funny photo of John Kopsnyder of Greensburg,
Pennsylvania. Nice full page color Nash ad with blue
car. The strange case of the resurrected prince. The
state of the armed forces. Photo essay - Mountain glaciers.
Hay fever drugs. Reading tests. The Killers - movie
and story by Ernest Hemmingway. Harp festival in Camden,
Maine. French swim suit. Life visits cape cod. Living
paintings are a hit.
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G - $18
F (all
VG, with VG framable cover, but cover partly loose )
- $10
F (all G , but minimal
edge stain at back) - $8
Life Magazine September
9, 1946 : Cover - Jane Powell in "Holiday
in Mexico." Report on the new city of Oak Ridge,
Tennessee. Nice full page color Studebaker ad with Champion
Regal De Luxe 2-door sedan in cream and maroon and Joseph,
Frank and Steven Molnar. Pretty full page color Stetson
ad with ladies hats. Wonderful full page color Kaiser
Frazer ad with two yellow cars. US zippers up its fleet
- Operation Zipper to preserve ships not in use.
Gazelle boy is captured (and imprisoned in insane asslym
- what WERE they thinking??) Close-up -
Molotov and Vishinsky. Photo essay - easier housekeeping.
Interview - What's funny about George Allen.
Boston baseball, with photos of Ted Williams and others,
including giant bat. Children's Judo with Carol
Tegner. Archaeology - digging in Arizona, Point
of Pines with Emil Haury. Life visits the Sikhs of India.
Senator Tobey's hymn sing with photos of Otto
W. Lindquist of Fitchburg, Massachusetts and others.
Wonderful full page International Trucks ad with "Eastern
Frieghter." Carnival in color. Ethan Andrews of
Govans, Maryland wears bees. Neat full page color RC
cola ad with Hedy Lamarr.
G - $18
F (all
G/VG , but has some short closed edge tears in margin)
- $10
Life Magazine September
16, 1946 : Cover - West Point's Glenn Davis and
Felix Blanchard, football. Charming full page Cannon
percale sheets ad. Nice full page color General Electric
lamps ad (light bulbs) with Edgar Bergen and Charlie
McCarthy, Ventriloquist and dummy. Nice full page color
Dodge ad with green car. Model airplane meet is uninhibited
air show. New Miss America is chosen, Marilyn Buferd.
Distance swimmers resume, including Jorge Berroeta,
George Burgmuller, Lou Reing, and King Nawahi. Prince
Wilhelm is down to last castle, Hohenzollern. Joy rider
grieves, drunken driver James Claire kills Donald Downs.
Nice full page Columbia Records ad with Frank Sinatra.
Mystery of Haushofer. Photo essay - the Pearl King,
Kokichi Mikimoto and cultured pearls. Army football.
25 years of Miss America. Studebaker assembly line produces
first postwar auto. Wild horse roundup in North Carolina.
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Life Magazine September
23, 1946 : Cover - Cat's playmate,
Rudy the dachshund - a very cute series of photos.
US success story 1938-1946. Attlee dedicates steppingstones.
London squatters seize houses. Sailboat refugees arrive
having sailed from Sweden, Estonians and a Finn with
captain Arnold Tamm. George Washington Hill dies. A
blind boy sees, Tony Upton. Very nice full page color
Coca-Cola ad by Wittrud with friends at table. Does
Europe face a Holy war? Close-up - Ted Williams,
baseball. Photo essay - the human look. Radio
- Mercedes McCambridge. Princeton University.
Pro Football. Tennis championships. Dahlias (flowers).
Cormorant fishing. Afghans go American. A Hollywood
south seas party.
G - $18
Life Magazine September
30, 1946 : Cover - Jeanne Crain in bubble
bath - this is the charming and famous photo with large
bubble poised on fingertip. Jaffa street battle, Joe
Louis is surprised champion, Dodger fans are on tenterhooks,
Truman fires Wallace, Moslem prayers celebrate end of
fact, Intelligence - key to defense, Iowa centennial,
Parking problem, Antarctic whaling, Indian airline hostesses.
G - $18
Life Magazine
October 7, 1946 : Cover - Bing Crosby
and Joan Caulfield. Oldest Human bones arrive in US (from
Dr. Koenigswald). Zale wins year's best fight, Bikini goat
gets transfusion, Taft and Vandenberg, Horse Opera - photo
essay, Personality test, Game bird shooting, Bonzai, Machamer
cartoonist.
G - $18
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Magazine October 14, 1946 : Awesome
Color Cover - Fall styles (Lady in wonderful
suit, hat, veil), Stasia Linder with suit by Zuckerman
and Kraus and hat by Sally Victor. Hollywood puts on
a strike thriller. Eugene O'Neil profile. War Criminals
sentenced to die. White House by Charles Hurd. Legion
convention hard on majorettes' feet. Intellectuals from
many nations meet in Geneva. Photo essay - Bank of England.
Sports - dressage. Science - cycles. Denver Prophet's
atom bomb haven, Brotherhood of the White Temple and
Dr. M. Doreal. Nice full page movie poster ad for "Two
years before the mast" starring Alan Ladd, Brian Donlevy
and others. Fall fashions. Soviet movies. New contact
lenses are comfortable, easy to fit. Radio - Henry Morgan.
Life goes to a football broadcast with Bill Stern. Nice
full page color Pabst Blue Ribbon beer ad.
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21, 1946 : Cover - Gloria Grahame. A wonderful
series of photos OF Alfred Eisenstaedt, the famous photographer.
A rather astounding nice full page color Green Giant
peas ad with orchids. Churchill rides a circus horse.
Bride dies on steps of church, Rose De Fabrizio. Peace
conference finds minor harmonies. US couple adopts French
village, Girard and Kathleen Hale and Maille. The fight
for Germany, by Reinhold Neibuhr. Books - "So this is
peace" by Bob Hope. Photo essay - Windsor castle. Photo
essay - Booming Houston. Brogan clothes. Guarded race
horses. New freight planes, Bristol Freighter, Fairchild
packet, Douglas Globemaster and Boeing Stratofreighter
airplanes. Charming full page color Coca-Cola ad on
back cover with club theme.
G - $18
F (All G, but water mark in upper margin) - $8
Life Magazine October
28, 1946 : Cover - One-room school, Charles Buntjer,
age 6, Pecatonica, Illinois. Cute full page color 7up
ad. Navy has seagoing jeep. Nazis are hanged, Ribbentrop,
Keitel, Kaltenbrunner, Rosenberg, Frank, Frick, Streicher,
Saukel, Jodl and Seyss-Inquart. US Communist boss is
exposed, Hans Berger. Hinky Dink dies. The Ukraine.
Close-up - the man who wants to build New York over,
William Zeckendorf. Very nice full page movie poster
ad for "It's a wonderful life" starring James Stewart
with color. Photo essay - Broadway theater goes highbrow.
Jean Wallace marries. Unconventional wedding dresses.
Movie censorship. The one-room school. Liquid heat -
science. The correct time. Very funny artwork contest
- Lena the Hyena. Life goes to the veiled prophet's
ball. Nice full page Maytag ad with color and heart.
Extraordinarily cute full page color General Motors
ad with Grandma.
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Life Magazine November
4, 1946 : Cover - Palestine, man with camel,
an Arabian mounted policeman. Unusual full page color
US Royal tires ad with nighttime driving scene. "Queen
Elizabeth" arrives in New York. Boy is caught in revolving
door, Vincent Castaldi. Photos of dead Nazis are released.
Tom Jordan starts panic in cotton. Close-up - the great
judge, Learned Hand. Europe's culture. Photo essay -
Palestine. How children grow. Chair dance. South seas
art. Paris clotheshorses. Sports - shades of 1869, first
intercollegiate football game is re-enacted at Princeton.
Housing - lake dwellers. Allies pick new German stamps.
Life goes Spelunking with Charleston grotto, West Virginia,
National Speleological Society NSS, great photos. .
Glass eater's alibi, Charles Bullock. Fun full page
color Life Savers ad.
G - $18
F (Generally
G, but lower margin is water marked) - $8
Life Magazine November
11, 1946 : Cover - High-school model, Shirley
Arnow of Phoenix, Arizona. Sculptures of Isamu Noguchi.
Unusual full page color Naturalizer shoe ad for Penthouse
platforms. Legislator starts sit-down strike. Moslems
stone Nehru. Indiana girl skates on toes, Connie Phares
with roller skates set up like ballet toe shoes. Reginald
Freeman's amazing rabbits that walk only one front
feet. Article - the atomic stakes. Close-up -
Lindsay and Crouse. Photo essay - Big steel's
men. Radio - new tricks for an old dog, a radio
program. Truck Roadeo for semi truck drivers. Amateur
models. Elisofon in Hollywood, includes an amazing full
page color farmable photo of Lana Turner. Cherokee stickball.
Gertrude Atherton writes her 56th book. Army school
for the blind, Avon, Conneticut. Rochelle salt crystals.
Life calls on a King for a day, Paul Shiloff at Wayne
University. Neat full page color Budweiser beer ad with
theater scene.
G - $20
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Life Magazine November
18, 1946 : Cover - Party raincoats, Phyllis Ernst.
Republicans start new political era. Brooklyn boy traps
robber, Herbert Bell. Horse show opens. Notre Dame ties
army. $750,000 swindle, William Arthur Nickel swindles
from the Mergenthaler Linotype company. Westerners visit
Yemen. BW, biological warfare, article by Gerard Piel.
Close-up - Toy king. Photo essay - the Plaza. Photo
essay - Howard University. Aviation - Pilot ejector.
Sculptured lamps. Party raincoats. Life goes to an Apache
party, patterned after a Paris fashion, includes Oma
Read, Chadelyn Hulburt, Alan Carson, Helen Hale. Marathon
walker Bert Couzens.
VG - $26
F (Generally G, but cover rough at spine and
a few pages water marked in margin) - $8
Life Magazine November 25,
1946 : Cover - Tenth anniversary, Nancy Maloney of
Long Island reading premier issue of LIFE. Cartoons kid life.
Movies of 1946. Ten years of American art. Life's girls. Life's
first story - Montana town that boomed near Fort Peck
dam is now barren, Wheeler Montana, even the buildings are
gone. Controversies. Unusual full page movie poster ad for
"The Strange Woman" starring Hedy Lamarr. Nice
full page Oldsmobile ad with series 66 Club sedan in blue.
Our times 1936-1946. Where are they now? Popular wartime art.
Cool full page Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation ad
with new B-36, the world's biggest bomber. Full page
color movie poster ad for "Sinbad the Sailor"
starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and others.
G - $18
F (Generally G, but cover nearly detached) - $8
Life Magazine December
2, 1946 : Cover - Ingrid Bergman in "Joan
of Lorraine." Lewis starts his biggest battle.
Sir William Dick designs Roosevelt statue. Londoners
throng Lord Mayor's inaugural. Chicago students
have fence party - controversy where Teitelbaum
had fenced off part of a building. OPA holds a wake.
Princeton gets Jefferson letter. Opera goer loses $5,000
bracelet, Mrs. George Washington Kavanaugh, found by
Mrs. Mina Schraff. Mr. New York dies, Jimmy Walker.
A report on Japan. Close-up - Child's best
seller, writer Margaret Wise Brown, Juniper Sage, Golden
MacDonald. Photo essay - Peacetime uses of atomic energy.
Bergman on Broadway. Trick basketball. Nightclubs -
Venus on the half shell. Science - 65 miles up.
Talking mailbox startles Milwaukee. Life goes on a snail
watch in England. Nice double ad (two full pages) color
American Locomotive Company ad.
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"LIFE" name on cover has writing on it) -
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F (all G , but
faint water mark on outer pages) - $8
F (all G , but
cover loose) - $8
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Magazine December 9, 1946 : Cover - Jet Pilot,
Donald Hillman. Unusual full page Mobilgas ad with winter
photo of string of cars, with color. Plane crash survivors
rescued in Alps, Captain Ralph Tate Jr. and 11 others
- an astounding crash and rescue from little Swiss town
of Rosenlauibad. Coal strike deepens. RFC carries on.
US sergeant runs Bremen boys club. "Normandie" makes
her last trip. St. Paul teachers strike. Japanese war
plans
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