Life Magazine 8/28/50.
Life Magazine.
Place Published: Chicago, IL:
Publisher: Time, Inc,,
Date Published: 1950.
Description: Life 8/28/50. The magazine is in GOOD TO FAIR with many pages having water marked spots on wrapper and at bottom of the many pages but is readable. Page 76 has four inch tear in ad. JMVINTAGE specializes in Books, Magazines and Treasures related to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. COVER: This portrait of General Douglas MacArthur was completed in Tokyo in late June by Thomas E. Stephens. Commmissioned by the U.S. Military Academy, Stephens sketched Mac Arthur in three poses. MacArthur picked this one for hanging at West Point. It shows the 70-year-old general characteristically dressed in sun tans with no tie. He wears none of his 46 decorations. In the background is the garden door of U. S. Embassy, where the general has lived since 1945. For a new look at Japan, which is now the base for MacArthur's U.N. command in the Korean war, see pages 81 thru 90/CONTENTS: A Vision brings 80,000 to Necedah/Atomic Handbook becomes a best seller/New York Skyscraper-Massachusetts Life Insurance Building reaches the top/Wild Blue Yonder Boys Salue GIs in Korea/The Brave Men of no Name Ridge-The U.S. Marines engage the enemy in a brutual battle at the parallel of the Naktong River west of Yongsan, Korea that recalll Peleliu, Tarawa and Iwo Jima/ Plane Makers Turn it on-Aircraft industry gets set to push production/ An Iowa (Bradgate) Town Dies a Slow Death-Bradgate's population shrinks/War and Politics-Democrats and Republicans/ The Gamble in Indo-China; Japan: A Bulwark in the Far East/Borscht Basketball/ Dress or Coat Fashion/Rescue Balloon-New Device Summons help by night or day /Life revisits the Ski Bums (Snow and Water) /Speaking of Pictures - Babe Ruth of Baseball and his life/
Binding: PaperbackCondition: Good
Book Id: 12010
Price: $10.00
