Each magazine has the number of pages listed below plus the cover and typically includes past week's events, articles and photographs of World War II, articles on theater, art, science, society, and others of interest, many photographs including reader submitted photographs, cartoons, and period advertising with many in color.
This lot includes these issues:
May 22, 1944: Vol. 16, No. 21, 120 pages. There is some damage to the spine, a slight tear on the outer edge of one page, and the centerfold page is detached but intact and undamaged. Model Mother on the cover, aerial photograph panorama of Alaskan glacier, news article about allies advance in New Guinea, news article about the war expanding into Bombay, news article about a garden party in Washington, DC, eyewitness article about the death of Reinhard Heydrich, article about airmen in the Aleutians illustrated with color paintings, an article about fashion models as mothers, movie article about Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer in Gaslight, a photographic essay about British Parliament, an article about the Gilbert and Marshal islands, a sports article about the race horse Pericles, an article about the current Hatfields and McCoys.
July 17, 1944: Vol. 17, No. 3, 96 pages. Peasant Clothes on the cover, a photo article about four classes of bird feathers, a photographic news article about Task Force 58 in the Pacific Ocean, news article about money-men meeting at Bretton Woods to discuss post-war money, news article about fire destroying a circus big top with a photo of Emmet Kelly carrying a bucket. Of water, an article about the Japanese Beetle, an article about airmen convalescing, a medical article about the mass production of Penicillin, a movie article about Gloria DeHaven and June Allyson in the musical ‘Two Girls and a Saylor,’ a photographic essay about Chicago, and an article about peasant clothes.
July 24, 1944: Vol. 17, No. 4, 100 pages. Tear and small piece missing from inside top corner of page 57 – please see photo. Jennifer Jones on the cover, news article about London’s second blitz, news article about mopping up Saipan, news article about Charles de Gaulle visiting the U. S., photo article about war damage to Italy’s art, article from sun clothes made from scarves, article about post-war proposals made by Sumner Welles, article about bomb bursts captured by high-speed photography, article about Chicago’s Lake Shore Swimming Team.
July 31, 1944: Vol. 17, No. 5, 80 pages. Russia’s Generals on the cover, news article about Roosevelt nominated for 4th term, article about infantile paralysis (polio), photo article about U. S. warplanes and how they have evolved, movie article about Linda Darnell, science article about a Yale professor who studies spiders, photographic essay about the U. S. Army Rangers, article about John P. Marquand, article about The Top of the Mark upon the Mark Hopkins Hotel in San Francisco.